US history final

DIRECT effect of the decision reached in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

"Separate but equal" doctrine was established. The Federal government allowed states to segregate citizens based on race.

This was one of the first groups of labor unions in the United States that later merged with the CIO.

American Federation of Labor

This is the gradual process by which an ethnic, racial, or religious group merges into the dominant surrounding population.

Assimilation

This was the classic statement on race relations by Booker T. Washington, made in a speech at the Atlanta Exposition (1895). He asserted that vocational education, which gave blacks a chance for economic security, was more valuable than social equality or political office.

Atlanta Compromise

This movement began in the late nineteenth century by prominent African-American activists and urged former slaves and descendants of slaves to return to their native homeland.

Back to Africa

CORRECTLY describe part of "Teddy" Roosevelt.

Became President following the assassination of the sitting President. Domestic programs were dubbed the "Square Deal." Won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end to the Russo-Japanese War. Often referred to as the first of the "Progressive" Presidents. Ran for President as a third party in 1912.

This process for producing steel revolutionized the entire industry, because it allowed for cheap and fast production of large quantities. Patented in 1855, it is named for its discoverer.

Bessemer process

Special laws passed by southern state governments immediately after the Civil War. They were designed to control former slaves, and to subvert the intent of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Black Codes

He was the Nez Perce Indian chief who attempted to lead his people to freedom in Canada. Despite vowing to "fight no more forever," he was captured by the U.S. Army in 1877, just 40 miles from the Canadian border.

Chief Joseph

He was the Duwamish chief who worked with white settlers in the Pacific northwest during 1860s, urging cooperation as well as environmental responsibility.

Chief Seattle

This Lakota Sioux chief led his warriors in against General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.

Crazy Horse

This 1887 law divided Indian tribal lands into family plots, but also required Indians to adopt "American" ways.

Dawes Act

This means segregation that comes from personal choice or choices, such as living in certain areas or attending certain places of worship. Courts have not become involved in this kind of segregation.

De Facto

This means segregation that is mandated by law. This kind of segregation is unconstitutional.

De Jure

This term refers to the process of taking away the right to vote from people who would normally enjoy that right.

Disfranchisement

Progressives

Early-20th Century Upton Sinclair Urban, Industrial Muckrakers

U.S. Cavalry General whose unwise and reckless conduct got him and over 200 soldier of the Seventh Cavalry killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn

George Custer

This 19th Century industrialist is best known for his company's production of the "sleeping car" for railroad travel, and for the 1894 labor strike surrounding it's production.

George pullman

This Reconstruction era policy gave voting rights only to people whose grandfathers had been legally allowed to vote, thus excluded freedmen from voting.

Grandfather Clause

This tiny island island became a territory of the United States following the Spanish American War.

Guam

William Taft

He supported high tariffs on imported goods and the privatization of the nation's natural resources.

Choose the statements that describe the life of Sitting Bull.

He was a leader of the Lakota people., Participated in "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show in the mid-1880s., Part of the "Ghost Dance" movement., Was killed while being taken into custody.

Legislation passed in 1862 allowing any citizen or applicant for citizenship over 21 years old and head of a family to acquire 160 acres of public land by living on it and cultivating it for five years.

Homestead Act

She wrote a famous 1904 book that exposed the business practices of John D. Rockefeller.

Ida Tarbell

This is the name used in the United States to describe a series of conflicts, in the 1800s, between the federal government and the native people of North America.

Indian Wars

items that CORRECTLY describe an aspect of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

It crossed the Rocky Mountains., Large number of Irish immigrants were used in construction going westward., The Central Pacific Railroad built track from west to east., The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads met at Promontory Point, Utah, completing the project.

statements that CORRECTLY relate to the Roosevelt Corollary (1904).

It was meant to clarify a policy begun by the U.S. in the 1820s. The U.S. pledged to collect debts owed by Latin American countries to European countries. The U.S. pledged to intervene should any Latin American country be threatened by a European country. A conflict between Venezuela and Britain & Germany inspired Theodore Roosevelt to create his corollary.

He was a U.S. banker and financier who was a leader in corporate finance and industrial mergers in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

J. P. Morgan

He influenced the late-19th century social movements through exposing the conditions of New York's working class in "How the Other Half Lives"

Jacob Riis

CORRECT statements that describe efforts to reform society during the Progressive era.

Jane Addams was the founder of the Hull house that offered services to immigrant families. Muckrakers refers to investigative journalists who exposed society ills. Upton Sinclair's novel led to the creation of the Food and Drug administration and the Meat Inspection Act. Women were among the most powerful advocates for reforms. Women were among the most powerful advocates for reforms.

Laws requiring that facilities and accommodations, public and private, be segregated by race.

Jim Crow Laws

Populists

Late-19th Century Rural, Farmer Farmers Alliance Free Silver Movement

Theodore Roosevelt

Led the Progressive movement Passed the Pure Food and Drug Act Passed Meat Inspection Act of 1906

He was best known for his "The Shame of the Cities" which exposed the political corruption found in major U.S. cities.

Lincoln Steffens

This prolific US author promoted socialist views and anarchist causes as well as writing The Jungle.

Lincoln Steffens

This is the name given to the combat between Lakota and Cheyenne and the US Army's Seventh Cavalry in 1876. It resulted in the deaths of nearly half of the unit, including General George Armstrong Custer.

Little Big Horn

his was a territory in the western U.S. purchased from France for $15 million in 1803.

Louisiana Purchase

The idea that the U.S. had a God-given right to expand its border westward to the Pacific Ocean.

Manifest Destiny

The group of authors and journalists who documented mostly industrial working conditions in the late-19th and early-20th Century U.S.

Muckrakers

This is the oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. Members of this have referred to it as The National Association.

NAACP

This Indian tribe, led by Chief Joseph, attempted to flee to Canada rather than go to a reservation, though this eventually failed in 1877.

Nez Perce

This organization of black intellectuals- led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter- was founded in 1905 and called for full political, civil, and social rights for black Americans.

Niagara Movement

This was an Act of Continental Congress which initially organized the first United States territory and was to be the basis for governing how the United States would expand westward.

Northwest Ordinance

this was a major U.S. route from Missouri to the Northwest in the 19th century.

Oregon Trail

Pacific island nation that came under American imperial control after the Spanish-American War.

Philippine Annexation

This amendment was a rider appended to the Army Appropriations Act in 1899, replacing the earlier Teller Amendment. The amendment stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba since the Spanish-American War, and defined the terms of Cuban-U.S. relations until the 1934 Treaty of Relations.

Platt Amendment

This was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legality of racial segregation so long as facilities were "separate but equal."

Plessy v. Ferguson

Dollar Diplomacy

President Taft, Helped ease U.S. resentment in Latin America

The name given to the political reform movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Progressive

1800s and early-1900s

Progressive Era

Woodrow Wilson

Proposed forming the League of Nations Promised "New Freedom" from trusts and tarriffs Passed the Federal Reserve Act

William Howard Taft

Prosecuted against trusts Strengthened Interstate Commerce Commission Supported popular election of US senators

He was a Comanche chief during the late-1800s and a leader in the Native American Church.

Quanah Parker

This Oglala Lakota (Sioux) chief led his people in resistance to the U.S. Army in the Montana and Wyoming territories from 1866 to 1868.

Red Cloud

This was the rallying cry during the Spanish-American War because of the sinking of this ship in Havana on February 15, 1898.

Remember the Maine

This is an area of land managed by Native American tribes, under the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. Because Native American tribes have limited national sovereignty, laws on tribal lands vary from those of the surrounding area. After the Indian Wars in the 1800s many tribes were forced to live in such areas.

Reservation

He was an 18th & 19th century American inventor who is credited with making the first steam-powered ship, The Clermont in 1807.

Robert fulton

This was a regiment in the Spanish-American War organized and led by Theodore Roosevelt that included cowboys, miners, policemen, and college athletes.

Rough Riders

This Shoshone Indian girl was an invaluable guide to Lewis and Clark on their trek West.

Sacagawea

The "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," he brought British textile technology to America.

Samuel Slater

This is the name of the legal doctrine of discrimination of the races that was adopted in much of the United States after 1896.

Separate But Equal

This is the name given to the purchase of the Alaska territory from Russia in 1867, for which the U.S. paid $7 million

Seward's Folly

This is the name given to the Native American ethnic group of the Great Plains (Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud).

Sioux

This is the name given to the Native American ethnic group of the Great Plains, represented by such leaders as Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud.

Sioux

This Lakota Indian Chief helped defeat General Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876

Sitting Bull

This was an amendment to a joint resolution of the United States Congress, enacted on April 19, 1898, in reply to President William McKinley's War Message. It placed a condition of the United States military in Cuba. According to the clause, the U.S. could not annex Cuba but only leave "control of the island to its people." It remained in force until 1899, when the Platt Amendment was passed.

Teller Amendment

This in 1904 and exposed many of the business practices of John D. Rockefeller and his powerful company.

The History of the Standard Oil Company

This famous novel described the difficult life of immigrants working in Chicago's Union Stock Yards and meat industry at the end of the 19th century.

The Jungle

Joseph Pulitzer (He also owned a number of other major newspapers around the United States.) His chief rival at the time was William Randolph Hearst

The New York World, a newspaper published and owned by

CORRECT statements that describe the Spanish-American War and the resulting debate over American Imperialism.

The United States acquired the Philippines, Guam, Guantanamo Bay and Puerto Rico as a result of the Spanish-American War. One of the arguments in favor of American imperialism was the need for more naval bases for economic and political security. One argument against American imperialism was that it would be costly to maintain territory outside American borders. Social Darwinism was the concept that the United States and Western powers were better suited to govern other parts of the world and would bring civilization. Increasing trade and opening up new markets was a major argument in favor of American imperialism.

items that CORRECTLY describe information related to the Chinese Exclusion Act.

The first wave of Chinese immigration began as a result of the California Gold Rush., Anti-Chinese sentiment was strongest on the West coast.,Chinese immigrants tended to live together in enclaves in the U.S., The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first U.S. law to place broad restrictions on immigration from a specific location, The Chinese Exclusion Act was not repealed until the World War II era.

statements that are pro-imperialism.

The idea that imperialism provided both a commercial and strategic advantage to the United States. The idea that the United States should extend freedom and democracy across the world as God's will.

This is a private university in Alabama setup during Reconstruction to help freed slaves receive an education. It was originally led by Booker T. Washington

This is a private university in Alabama setup during Reconstruction to help freed slaves receive an education. It was originally led by Booker T. Washington

Big Stick Diplomacy

This was Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy of using military preparedness to prevent international conflict. Considered the first extension of the Monroe Doctrin

This was the forced migration of the Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma in 1838-39.

Trail Of Tears

Completed by largely Chinese and Irish labor, this railway was completed in Promontory Point, Utah, 1869, linking the western and eastern parts of the United States.

Transcontinental Railroad

this is the battleship that was sunk in a Cuban port in 1898 by Spain, which began the Spanish-American War.

USS Maine

Founded in the early 1920s, this was Marcus Garvey's black nationalist group; by the late 1920s he had established more than 700 chapters in 38 states.

United Negro Improvement Association

The 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington, which chronicled his rise from slavery to his roles as the founder of Tuskegee Institute and as a civil rights leader.

Up From Slavery

The Election of 1912 was made up of a crowded field of contenders, The incumbent was President

William Taft , a member of the Republican party.

This is the site in South Dakota where, in 1890, US soldiers massacred over 150 Lakota men, women, and children.

Wounded Knee

This was the use of sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation. usually inaccurate

Yellow Journalism

William Randolph Hearst

also owned many newspapers, most notably the New York Journal. The more sensational the story and headline, the more newspapers they sold. With this as the backdrop to 1898, it is no surprise that historians often credit - or blame- these two with fanning the flames of war with Spain over events in Cuba

Monroe Doctrine

an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers

reformer in particular- William Jennings Bryan

campaigned heavily for the direct election of U.S. Senators in order to end the corruption he felt was widespread in the Senate.

This Scottish-born American industrialist made his fortune in the steel industry, using vertical integration to decrease cost and increase profits by using vertical integration.

carnegie

Socialist candidate for President, Eugene Debs.

gainined support from poor and working class people.

this was a rapid influx of fortune seekers to Sutters Mill in California in 1849.

gold rush

Article I , Section 3

he Senate- required that the two senators from each state be chosen by state legislatures

The New York industrialist who made hundreds of millions of dollars in the 19th century with this Standard Oil Company and pioneered the corporate strategy of vertical integration.

john d rockefeler

construction on this began in 1811 and was the first federally funded turnpike in the United States.

national Road

result was predictable: the Republican party vote was split, meaning that Wilson won the election, becoming the 28th President of the United States.

outcome...

An area of land where the U.S. government forced Indians to live; usually less than desirable land.

reservation

Woodrow Wilson, was chosen as the Democratic party candidate and belived

social changes begun by the previous two presidents could be maintained and expanded upon. He appealed to liberals and conservatives alike.

As the U.S. Constitution was being written,

some of the Framers were concerned that the national government might have too much power over the state governments. (anti federalist belived this too)

All the inventions that contributed to U.S. infrastructure during the Industrial Revolution.

telegraph, electric bulb, telephone, rail depots

he founded the [[Progressive]] party, which was unofficially known as the Bull Moose party.

theodore roosevelt

U.S. House of Representatives in which said each state's representation would be elected directly by citizens of the districts in each state

true

What was the Ghost Dance Movement?

was developed by an American Indian named will Covia. It drew on traditional American Indian rituals, and emphasized cooperation among tribes and clean living and honesty. It was not as successful in stopping white incursions, but it led to a spiritual revival that had a profound effect on American Indian tribes into the 20th century.

Anti-Federalists

were skeptical over the Constitution in general .