HIST-1700 Final Study Guide
March to the Sea
"modern war"
the compromise of 1850
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific
Gilded Age
A name for the late 1800s, coined by Mark Twain to describe the tremendous increase in wealth caused by the industrial age and the ostentatious lifestyles it allowed the very rich. The great industrial success of the U.S. and the fabulous lifestyles of the wealthy hid the many social problems of the time, including a high poverty rate, a high crime rate, and corruption in the government.
The Manhattan Project
A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.
first impeached president
Andrew Johnson
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States gained the most territory through...?
Annexation
General lee surrendered to general grant
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Picture Brides
Asian women in marriages arranged by a broker
John Wilkes Booth
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
September 17, 1862 "Bloodiest Singe Day"
Battle of Antietam
When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Jackson, what can be determined about the issue?
Both Congress and the president accused the other of unconstitutional acts.
Rockefeller
Captain of industry that created a monopoly in oil refineries
First Immigration law
Chinese Exclusion Act
the 15th amendment
Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
the 14th amendment
Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
What taste of freedom did women enjoy in World War II?
Doing mens jobs/ financial freedom
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Exposed the horrible, unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry. Example of muckraking.
T or F? Jews were the only people affected by the Holocausts
False
The poverty rate for families...?
Fell during the 1950s
The 19th amendment
Gave women the right to vote
During the Allied occupation of Japan, ______________ introduced reforms designed to convert Japan into a democratic country.
General Douglas A. MacArthur,
First African American senator
Hiram Revels
In what way was Reconstruction policy a success?
It established an amendment promising equal protection for all
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Black Codes
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
Reason for D-Day Invasion
Liberate western Europe
By 1880...?
Majority of Americans worked in non-farm activities.
Causes of WWI
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
Freedmen's Bureau
Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War
Chinese Immigrants
Played an important role in completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
How could have corporations done to prevent the great depression?
Preventing the collapse of the banking system or by counteracting the collapse with an expansion of the monetary base
What trends of the 1920s did fundamentalists support?
Prohibition
What sentiments did the KKK express?
Racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, and nativism.
The New Deal for Native Americans...?
Resulted in a series of forced assimilations.
National Conscription Law
Rich people could buy their way out of draft by hiring a sub for $300
First state to secede
South Carolina in 1860
Dred Scott Decision
Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property
What was the Vicksburg essential?
The capture of Vicksburg was essential to the Union's overall strategy of splitting the Confederacy in two and cutting off its supply lines. Vicksburg was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, and its capture would give the Union control of the river from its source in Minnesota all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, effectively dividing the Confederacy in two.
What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?
The idea of non-violence
The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by which event in reconstruction?
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866
immigration push factors
The reasons that immigrants desire to leave their home country. Most common reasons are due to a lack of job/education opportunities or political/religious oppression or war.
Lincoln used the ______________ to communicate with his generals and other officers to keep tabs on what was going on at the battlefront.
The telegraph
What typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?
The victims alleged sexual conduct.
What did the members of the New United Nations Security Council all have in common?
They all have suffered the least casualties and financial losses during the war.
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Abraham Lincoln
Was elected President in 1860, without any southern electoral votes.
The Marshall Plan...?
Was not very successful.
The scale of Civil War bloodshed was comparable to that of which other conflict?
World War I
What is totalitarianism?
a government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life
Kansas-Nebraska Act
a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
Wade-Davis Bill
an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it was too harsh.
The America First Committee...?
campaigned for Americans to be the first to go to war against Nazi Germany.
Empancipation Proclamation
declaration issued by Lincoln in 1863, stating that all slaves in the confederate states were free
Nativism
favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?
he was a Southern Democrat who had remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War,
What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?
he would have had concerns about some of the moral and social issues that were present during that time.
During the 1920s,...
labor lost over 2 million members.
Immigration Pull Factors
political freedom, economic opportunities, religious freedom
Lincoln's hidden weapon
railroad
the 13th amendment outlawed
slavery
Holocaust
the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
