Us history midterm study guide

The population of the West increased due to what creation?

rail roads

Which document allowed U.S. the right to protect its economic interests by means of military intervention in the affairs of Western Hemisphere nations?

roosevelt corollary

Why did the US build the Panama Canal?

shorten the distance that ships had to travel between the atlantic and pacific

How did nativists feel about immigrants?

taking their jobs away

What did political machines expect in return for economic favors?

votes

How did the railroad industry influence the growth of industries in Florida?

Transport goods up north

What piece of legislation reduced Chinese immigration in 1882?

chinese exclusion ac

Why did African Americans move north?

factory jobs

Who fueled the independence movement in Cuba during the Spanish American War?

Jose Marti

What is the Selective Service Act of 19172

Register for the army

What is isolationism?

A policy of avoiding contact with other countries

What abolished slavery in the North?

13th amendment

What made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the nation?

14th amendment

What gave everyone, except women, the right to vote?

15th amendment

What role did women play in the Progressive movement?

Activist

Which African-American leader supported the use of technical training to obtain economic independence to raise the standard of living for African-Americans?

Booker T. Washington

What was created to develop propaganda to help spread the U.S. information about the war in 19177

Committee of public safety

Name three things that contributed to the Great Depression.

Credit, overproduction, unequal wealth

What legislation encouraged the assimilation of Native Americans into American society?

Dawes act

What economic policy was used in the 1930s to help stimulate the economy?

Deficit

How did Latin American countries feel about the U.S. building the Panama Canal?

Did not like it

What supreme court decision stated, "being in a free territory did not make the slave free."

Dred Scott decision

What is the Open Door Policy?

Equal trading rights in China for all imperial powers

How did the U.S. fix the food safety concern?

Food and drug act (POA)

Which economic policy did William Jennings Bryan warn against in his famous speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1896?

Gold standard

How did the Espionage and Sedition Acts affect freedom of speech in the U.S.?

Government could silence ideas

How did Theodore Roosevelt feel about American imperialism?

He felt aggressive

What created a need for greater markets for American goods?

Industrial Revolution

Wilson won the presidency by keeping up out of the war. What policy is this?

Isolation/ neutrality

What laws in the south separated the population?

Jim Crow laws

What were the conditions of the early industrial period?

Long working hours, low wages, unsafe working conditions

Who had more advantages in the Civil War?

North

Why did the U.S. become an imperialist nation?

Open markets, military and spread culture

How did the sinking of the Lusitania affect the course of WWI?

Outrage

What attorney general attempted to seek out communists in 1919-20?

Palmer raids

What best describes Wilson's Fourteen Points?

Peace plan

What supreme court case made racial segregation in public facilities legal?

Plessy v. Ferguson

What did FDR suggest in response to several unfavorable Supreme Court rulings concerning the New Deal programs?

Point justices

What political party supported William Jennings Bryan?

Populist

What concept was Calvin Coolidge generally associated with during the 1920s?

Prosperity

Which state seceded from the Union once Abraham Lincoln was elected as president?

South Carolina

What War was known as the "Splendid Little War"?

Spanish-American War

What message did Wilson's administration drum into Americans during WWI?

Support the war effort

Where in Florida was used for a staging area for troops who were sent to the battlefield in Cuba during the Spanish American War?

Tampa

The invention of Trench Warfare led to what next invention?

Tanks

What were some major programs created during Roosevelt's Hundred Days? When was SSA passed?

The CCC, FDIC, NRA the SSA was passed in August 14,1935

What was the African-American experience during WWI?

They faught in segregated units

How did women help the WWI effort?

Working

Name of the Union's war strategy and what is it shaped like?

anaconda plan

What was the white settlers' perspective who claimed Native American land on the Great Plains?

because they didn't owned

These became part of the daily lives in the South.

black codes

Name a major pull factor that encouraged immigration to the U.S. in the late 19th century.

jobs and economic reasons

What policy allowed for little regulation of businesses in the United States?

laissez faire

How did the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany?

land taken away, admit guilt, pay them

Which group would support immigration restrictions?

nativist

What resulted from the implementation of the "initiative" and the "referendum" by the Progressives?

new laws

Lincoln gave moral support to the Civil War by issuing what new legislation.

the emancipation proclamation

What is the primary goal of a political machine?

to gain power/maintain control

Name of a sensational expression of opinion and inaccurate reporting of the news.

yellow journalists