Dunlap Hist 106 Exam 1

Homestead Act

1862; encourages settlement

Munn Vs Illinois

1877

Western Settlement

1877-1900

when was internal expansion over? (land wise)

1890

Iron and steel

1890-1900

Mississippi Plan;

1890; allows registration officials to discriminate between whites and blacks

Homestead Strike

1892; Pennsylvania

Pullman Illinois Strike

1894

Teddy Roosevelt

1901-1909

WWI

1914-1918

medicine

1990's medical improvement, drop in death rate, microbial theory

Samuel Gompers

AFL- supported wage sustem

1887

American Federation of Labor

1899

Andy sells out (steel era over)

Mobilization

Draft, anti-racil sentiment, anti-freedom action

central power

Germany, Austria- Hungry, Ottoman Empire

allies

Great Britain, France, Russia and eventually the U.S.

1913-1921

Harding

1886

Knights of Labor goes down

1869

Knights of labor

Why is America successful?

Land: us temperate zone, energy resources Labor: immigration Capitol: $$ for investment Business organization- RR influence and running capabilites

Grange

North, Wheat, RR regulation, prices, Costs, Upper midwest, no political preference (ill, win, idaho)

1896

Plessy Vs Fergison

Government involvement

RR subsides, land subsidies, public domain, tarrifs

Andrew Carnegie

RR, cost sheets, steel, understanding of keeping costs low by taking advantage of resources

After 1820s

SCIENCE! TECHNOLOGY

1909

Taft- shuts down teddy programs

1901

Teddy!

1880-1920

The New U.S.

May 1919

Treaty of Versailles (Paris)

December 1914

Trench warfare- becomes increasingly easy to kill

Nov 11 1918

Veterans Day

Scale complexity

above a certain size; something has to change

Knights of Labor

against the wage system; Craft, industry, geography,all races, women

How'd we get involved

aiding GB and Submarine Warfare

war guilt

all on germany

USDA

application of land grant system

La Follete

arguable the most important and recognized leader of the opposition to the growing dominance of corporations over the government. Progressivist, like teddy, protection of large interests

Hyphenated Americans

believed america was the best due to freedom; silent war effort

Wilson's doesn't help

blacks, women, child labor, and doesn't support govt support (social welfare)

Homestead reason

carnage steel

Pluralism

co-exsisting americans

Teddy advocated for

conservation of resources / better use of resources

Democratic access

contracts to give people land to make small economies

Eli Whitney

cotton gin; interchangeable parts

what causes deflation

cyclic drought

Munn Vs Illinois verdict

declare that the RR are effect with public interest and okay for state governments to regulate because they effect the economy

Technology

development, application of science, rise of professionalization and expertise

reconstructed government

division of functions, expertise, efficient management

why did we expand externally?

economic trade and resources

1889

end of cattle range

1890

end of frontier

Wilson's achievements

federal reserve, senatorial elections, income tax, money/credit

Civil Servises (1871)

food, drugs, training, commute, public order, social services

Populist Party (1892)

free silver, cotton, West, RR regulation

Liberty of Contract

freedom vs responsibility, able to make own contract without govt involvement

"new Immigration"

from south/east, less white, less english , less edu, non-prodistant

American Foundation of Labor

graft union, exclusion, supported wage system

McCormick

grim weeper; company rules for private life

1892

homestead strike

Dawes act

indians conform

hemisphere

interaction with NA

Socialism

judism reform, exploitation of immigrants, business controlled by govt, supported craft unions

used in WWI for casualties

machine Guns, Barbed Wire, Artillery

1893

major depression

1905-UFFS

makes carters for land to give to national parks; unlock land and products

crop Lien

mortgage a crop who supplies with food: 1/3 profit went to owner

pacific coast

mountain basins

after 1880

new immigration

new industries

oil and fracking

what did we gain in spanish american war

panama canal, cuba, guam, phillippines

new inventions

phonograph, electric light, movies, camera

Administrative agencies

power form state, legislature to draw on resources of the state

electricity

provides portable power

Gifford Pinchot

rationalization; doing things in a reasonable fashion

Democratic rule

representatives; more responsive to pubic opinion

Illinois ware house act 1867

requires RR to serve diff granges

league of nations

security and disarmament; settling international disputes through negation and arbitration

Plessy Vs Fergison

separate but equal

Pullman Strike reasons

sleeper car, Eugene Debs

1898

spanish american war

1885

structural steel

Thomas Edison

transforms daily life ; electricity

August 1914

two powers formed, the central powers and allies

1920

urban life, applied technology

1910 production

when from capital goods to consumer products

1912

wilson becomes president

Tendency

work someones lands for a share of profit