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| The richest, most productive country in the world |
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| By 1900, just 124 years after declaring independence from Britain, this is what the United States had become... |
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| The Five Major World Powers in 1900 |
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| The United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. |
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Produced everything necessary for feeding the entire nation.
Only extras like bananas, cocoa, coffee, tea, and pepper had to be imported from other countries. |
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| Name some of the sayings children heard that helped them to become honest, hard-working individuals who helped the country to continue to prosper. |
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*A penny saved is a penny earned.*
*Waste not, want not*
*Cleanliness is next to Godliness.*
*Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.*
*Honesty is the best policy*
*A stitch in time saves nine.*
*Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.*
*A man's word is his bond.* |
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| Who was the largest industrial nation in 1900? |
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| The United States of America |
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| What does it mean for a country to be called industrialized? |
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| Many people work in factories or businesses making and producing goods to be sold. |
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| What was the life expectancy in 1900? Life expectancy today? |
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1900 life expectancy: Men-46, Women-48
Today: Men-74, Women-79 |
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| Why did people not live as long in 1900 as they do today? |
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| Medical doctors did not know how to prevent or cure many diseases...and medical care was not advanced as it is today. |
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Known as the first black woman to head a federal agency-
she was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as director of the Negro Affairs Division of the National Youth Administration.
She spent her life teaching young black children to read the Bible and founded schools, colleges, and hospitals, and associations for black Americans. |
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| This statement of loyalty to America was first published in 1892. |
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The Pledge Allegiance, or Flag Salute, by Francis Belamy.
It was first published in The Youth's Companion, a children's magazine.
It was printed in leaflet form and distributed to every school in America where children would recite it each day in school. |
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| By 1914, this country sent out more missionaries and gave more money to missions than an other country. |
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| The United States of America |
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| What modes of transportation was used in the early 1900's? |
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Most people walked or rode horses, mules, bicycles, streetcars, steamships, or trains.
Most cars were powered by steam or electricity and only the very rich owned them. Henry Ford's Model T automobile from assembly line production didn't come until 1913. |
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| Three famous American gospel preachers who preached in the United States during the late 1800's and early 1900's. |
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1. D.L.Moody, America's greatest revivalist and evangelist
2. R. A. Torrey, Moody's assistant, ran the Chicago school that later became the Moody Bible Institute
3. Billy Sunday, conducted great revival campaigns |
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| What form of transportation increased the speed and efficiency of mail delivery? |
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| The inventor of the wireless telegraph |
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| Why did the United States lead the world in railroading? |
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| The US led the world in steel production and were pioneers of modern business management allowing the early 1900's to become the golden age of the railroad. |
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| How many miles of railroad track were there in 1900? |
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| Over 190,000 miles of track crisscrossed the country |
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| Designed the Pullman Sleeping cars for overnight passengers on passenger trains. |
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| How did standard time originate? |
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| The railroads need to coordinate the schedules of their trains to prevent crashes. They came up with standard time and set each railroad engineers pocket watches to it. Before this time was base on the sun and differed from town to town. |
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| Famous passenger railroad engineer that died holding on to the brake trying to stop the train before it slammed into the caboose of another train stuck on the tracks. His tale of bravery was told in folk tales and sung in ballads across the U.S. |
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| What toy was made in honor of the 26th President of the United States? |
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| The Teddy Bear, because he refused to shoot a bear during a hunting trip. |
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| The first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for peace. |
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| President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 received the Nobel Peace Prize because of his negotiations to end a war between Russia and Japan. |
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| Open in 1914, all nations not at war with U.S. were allowed to use it. The U.S. purchased the small 10 mile wide strip of land in Panama and 40,000 people spent 10 years digging and building the canal to allow battleships to move from the Pacific to the Atlantic. |
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| The leader of the first expedition to reach the North Pole. On April 6,1909, Robert Peary along with 4 Eskimos and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole. |
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| The "unsinkable" ocean liner that sank off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. |
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| A promise between two or more countries to fight together against their enemies in time of war. |
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| Allied Powers or the Allies |
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| The name for the group of countries that sided against Germany in World War I and World War II. |
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| Both of these wars began because of events that took place in Germany. |
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| World War I ( 1914-198) and World War II (1939-1945) |
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| The ruler of Germany in 1914 when World War I broke out. |
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| The countries that sided with Germany |
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| The few countries that did not take any sides in the world wars |
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| How did World War I begin? |
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| Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife were shot and killed while visiting Bosnia. The young man that assassinated them was working with the Serbian secret society of Serbia so Germany declared war on Serbia. |
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| President of the United States during World War I - kept the U.S. out of the war for the first 3 years..we were a neutral country. |
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| An underwater boat or a submarine. The Germans used these to sink American ships trying to send supplies to England. |
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| A British passenger boat that left New York headed for England with over 1000 people including 100 Americans...it was sunk by a German U-Boat which angered Americans. |
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| A German letter discovered by the British. In it Germany was asking Mexico to join the war and if they won, Germany was going to give them parts of the US! This enraged the US. |
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| After the Zimmerman letter, President Wilson declared the US would join the Aliies against Germany with this simple phrase... |
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| "The world must be made safe for democracy." |
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| November 11th is Veteran's Day because of this... |
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| On Nov 11th, 1918 the Central powers surrendered and World War I ended. Veterans Day honors our men who died for their country in any war. |
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| after World War I, a prosperous period in America of lots of jobs and opportunity. Manufacturing grew with new inventions such as the radio, washing machines, toasters, vacuums...that changed how Americans lived. |
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First President to give his inaugural address over the radio.
Nicknamed "Silent Cal" because he did not talk much. |
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| Henry Ford's assembly line |
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| Made cars cheaper by offering less choice and streamlining production to build cars quicker. Cars became affordable to more Americans. |
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| A British naturalist who rejected the Bible and said man came from animals. ( The Theory of Evolution ) |
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| Christians who affirmed the fundamental truths of the Bible we're called Fundamentalist...95% of the churches were Fundamentalists in the 1920's. |
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| Famous lawyer who defended the Bible and won the case against evolution in the Scopes trail where a teacher was illegally teaching evolution in the classroom. |
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| Spoke in the universities and wrote many books that effectively refuted the error of evolution. |
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| Greek professor from Princeton University who gave radio talks about the truth of the Bible and the falseness of modernism.. |
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| The years between 1929-1939 when the stock market crashed, banks ran out of money, factories closed and people lost their jobs. Many didn't have enough to eat... |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) |
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| President during the Great Depression. he expanded government spending and expanded government programs to try to help Americans through the Great Depression. |
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| Preparing for World War II , these countries began enlarging their armies and navy... |
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| This event pulled America out of the Great Depression with jobs and booming factories again... |
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| American Fundamentalist preacher who preached to masses in America and England. |
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| G. Campbell Morgan, F.B. Meyer, and Gypsy Smith |
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| English Fundamentalist preachers traveled back and forth from England to America preaching the Bible in the 1920s |
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| Eight men who fought against Evolution and for Biblical Principals |
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1. William Jennings Bryan (lawyer in Scopes trial)
2. Dr. Harry Rimmer (wrote books and spoke at universities)
3. J. Gresham Machen ( gave radio talks)
4. R.A. Torrey, (Moody 's assistant)
5. Billy Sunday(American preacher)
6. G. Campbell Morgan( English preacher)
7. Gypsy Smith (English preacher)
8. F.B.Meyer ( English preacher) |
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