U.S. History Mid term

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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


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