U.S. History Mid term
who went to jail over speaking bad about the gov
Eugene V. Debs
coercive patriotism
Method used to make Americans support the government if you didn't support what the government says/ does you aren't a patriot IWW was harassed so much that they seized to exist
the progressive presidents were
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
the first billion-dollar enterprise coporation was:
U.S. Steel
wilson and peace
Wilson created the Fourteen Point Plan to maintain postwar peace. He was somewhat successful because some of his goals were included in the Treaty of Versailles. he does not fight the way people thought he would britian and france will NOT give us land big countries control littles countries is what Wilson believed
if a man from Maine came to live in the south as a teacher, what would he most likely be labeled as?
a carpetbagger
Eugene V. Debs was
a socialist candidate for president
Jane Addams
advocated for the working poor
after the civil war what happened in regards to religion
african-americans started their own churches
in Muller v. Oregon the Supreme Court
argues that women were too weak to work long hours
the 16th amendment
authorized congress to implement a graduated income tax
Margaret Sanger was a
birth control advocate
the black response to the ending of the civil war and the coming of freedom
black focused on family and looked for family members who had been separated from them during the slavery era
who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas exodus
blacks
in regards to public education in the south during reconstruction
blacks had a desire to learn so they could enter politics
massive hunting of what animal hurt the plains Indians
buffalo
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets
what was the reason for U.S. control over Puerto Rico Guam and the Philippines
control of strategic gateways from which to project American naval and commercial power
after the civil war what was a symbol of a life of freedom on the open range
cowboys
president Theodore Roosevelt
distinguished between "good" and "bad" trusts
the Dawes act of 1887
divided tribal lands into parcels of land for Indian families
fordism
early 20th century term describing the economic system pioneered by Ford Motor Company based on high wages and mass consumption
for workers the second industrial revolution meant what?
frequent periods of mass unemployment higher wages than those earned by European industrial workers dangerous work conditions an increase of women working industry
Wartime State
growth of federal gov hard to take power back selective service act 8 hr day passed and right to have unions increased taxed; 60% of income from rick folk
sedition act
happens after epionage act 1918 law that made it illegal to criticize the government
epionage act
illegal to make false statements about gov
according to the authors of the Dawes severalty act, what constituted a civilized life for native Americans in the later nineteenth century
individual property ownership and farming on family plots
analyze reconstruction policy in what way was it a success
it established an amendment promising equal protection for all
muckrackers
journalists who write exposes of problems in industrial life
the fourteen points
key principles- self determination for all nations, freedom of the seas, free trade, open diplomacy, creation of a general association of nations to preserve peace
black codes
laws passed from 1865 to 1866 in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves to nullify the codes, congress passed the civil rights act of 1866 and the 14th amendment
treaty debate
makes senate nervous never ratified and never joined
after the civil war, ex-slaves were labeled as "drifters" what was the reality for these ex-slaves
many slaves were moving around in search of family members who had been sold
Tulsa race riots
may 31-june 1, 1921 Greenwood was all black Greenwood aka black wall street young black man got in elevator women ran out screaming but no one knows what really happened wanted the man lynched mob comes and has words with black man there was a gun shot and then chaos went on for three days not really a riot its more of a massacre 300 blacks died but not a for sure number economic reason no insurance paid to blacks whose house and business were destroyed
Nickelodeon was a
motion-picture theater
carpetbaggers
northern emigrants who participated in the Republican governments of the reconstruction south`
Andrew Johnson's reconstruction policy emphasized
pardons for most white southerners
redeemers
post-civil war democratic leaders who supposedly saved the south from Yankee domination and preserved the primarily rural economy
the Chinese exclusion act of 1882
prohibited any Chinese from entering the United States
all of the following were used by southern whites to maintain dominations over blacks
racial segregation disenfranchisement limiting economic opportunities inferior education
the ________ made possibly the second industrial revolution in America
railroads
the silver issue
refers to the fight to increase the money supply by minting silver money
in please v. Ferguson (1896) the Supreme Court:
ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations were constitutional
a worker who crossed a picket line during a strike was called a
scab
fourteen points
self determination, free trade, freedom of seas, no secret diplomacies, general assembly of nations, readjustment of colonial claims speech for peace that was used to negotiate things in order to end World War I by Wilson (president)
feminism
sought to attack the traditional roles of sexual behavior for women
the fifteenth amendment
sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race
scalawag
southern white republicans - some former unionists- who supported reconstruction governments
the Panama canal
terrible working conditions 1903: US helps Panama break away from Columbia (Roosevelt helped) when Panama is successful they give US land/rights to build and operate and control from now on Carter gave back rights
what did World War I mean to those at home
that was when to act to get things changed
between 1890 and 1906 southern state governments and white southerners eliminated black voting using what
the grandfather clause literacy and understanding tests poll taxes violence and intimidation
In 1883, _______ divided the nation into the four time zones s till used today
the major railroad companies
the theory of social darwinism argued that:
the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explains why some were rich and some were poor
apart from racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the Lynch violence of southern white mobs
the victim's alleged sexual conduct
the Spanish-american war
the war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties
how did populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops
they called for public ownership of the railroads
disenfranchisement
to deprive of the right to vote; in the United States , exclusionary policies were used to deny groups, especially African-American and women, their voting rights
propoganda war
used by US to get people on board with war (ex. the posters) get people stirred up
World war I
war breaks out in 1914 secret alliances allies vs. central powers allies- Britain, France, Russia, Japan central powers- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire 21 million casualties America stays neutral BUT we can make $ in the wars most of the fighting was in trenches many advances were made such as tanks, submarines, etc. bloodies war the world had seen up to this point
the ghost dance
was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians feared by whites
at the end of nineteenth century lynching:
was an act of violence directed mostly at black men
in the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were:
ways that manufacturers sought to control the marketplace
journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal which sensationalized events to sell papers were called
yellow journalists