American Studies Exam 1 Review
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- Who did the South choose in the Elections of 1865
- Ex-Confederates from the South
- Freemen's Bueau Bill
- Gave feedmen clothing, food, and schooling
- The Lost Cause
- The South could not secede from the Union
- Black Codes
- Laws individual states had limiting black's freedom
- Intransigence
- stubbornly refusing to compromise
- travesty
- a sad event
- override
- When Congress disagrees with a president and discards his veto
- John Scopes
- A school teacher who was put on trial for teaching darwinism
- Hiram Wesley Evans
- Started KKK in mid-west
- Alfred E. Smith
- First Catholic to run for President
- Black Tuesday
- October 29, Wall Street panic, everybody sold their stocks
- Protective Tariff
- Extra taxes placed on foreign good
- Reconstructive Finance Corporation (R.F.C.)
- Hoover set up this system that would use the trickle-down theory
- 2 Causes of stock market CRASH
- greed, corruption
- Why was Johnson impeached
- Openly defied Tenre of Office act Congress passed
- 1 Part of the 14th Amendment
- Prohibited States from depriving all citizens of "life, liberty, and property"
- disfranchise
- To take away the right to vote
- 15th Ammendment
- all races can vote
- Steps of impeachment
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1. trial in front of Senate
2. vote for resolution
3. need 2/3 of Congress - folly
- absurdity
- Name for decade of 1920
- Roaring Twenties
- Comical Actor (1920s)
- Charlie Chaplin
- Rudolph Valentino
- famous actor
- Will Hays
- Hired to monitor all movies
- George Ruth
- "Babe" Ruth, baseball player for Yankees
- Charles Lindbergh
- Flew a plane across Atlantic
- "Flapper"
- A rebelious girl in the 20s
- Marcus Garvey
- Black Jamaican urging blacks to take pride in their heratige
- Commercialized leisure
- Paying to have fun
- National Pastime
- Baseball
- domestics
- house hold servants who did housework
- Ludlow Colorado
- Mining town controlled by Rockefeller
- Coney Island
- 2 mile stretch with beaches, board walk, fun and games
- benevolent corporate paternalism
- Comapanys acting "fatherly" by providing for their workers
- neutrality
- Not picking sides in a war, and still trading freely
- John J Pershing
- General hired to chase Pancho in Southwest
- Sarajevo
- Where they killed arch duke of Austria
- Triple Entente
- Russia, France, and Great Britain
- Triple Allience
- Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
- Who called who a "flub dub and mollycoddle"
- Roosevelt called Wilson
- Lusitania
- British Passenger ship sunk by Germans, 128 Americans died
- Zimmermann Note
- telegram from Germany to Mexico urging them to fight U.S.
- Fransisco "pancho" Villo
- Mexican outlaw who gained power by force
- Was Woodrow Wilson a racist
- Yes
- Most significant piece of legislation by Wilson
- Federal Reserve Act
- Clayton Act
- Outlawed unfair competition in buisiness, did not succede
- Who created the FTC
- Woodrow Wilson
- Nickname for Industrial Workers of the World
- Wobblies
- Margaret Sanger
- Nurse and social activist concentrating of birth control
- What would provide the final impetus for woman suffrage
- WWI
- Atlanta Conpromise
- Idea that blacks and whites could be separated, but treated fairly
- Hull House
- A spear head for reform
- Prohibition
- Banning of Alcohol
- Social Gospel
- Sought to reform society by church
- Can you describe the typical progressive
- No
- Thomas Lofton Johnson
- Mayor of Cleveland, big reformer
- Robert LaFollette
- From Misconson, first Mayor, then senator, reformer
- NCL
- National Consumers Leauge, cross-class alliance
- depression
- When the total value of goods goes down for 2 consecutive quarters
- public works program
- government hiring poor people to build public works
- Jacob S Coxey
- proposed the public works program
- Winner of election of 1896
- McKinley
- Democrat of election of 1896
- William Bryan
- Republican of election of 1896
- William McKinley
- What party set political agenda for next decades
- Populist
- How did William Bryan change the style of campaigning
- He traveled all over and gave speaches
- Blacklisted
- To be blacklisted is to be put on a list that tells other companies not to hire you, you are being boycotted
- What was the immediate cause of the Pullman strike
- The pay was just cut
- What issues did a populist support
- Reforms in: Transportation, Land, and Money
- Organized labor
- Laboring Unions
- Terence Powderly
- The first leader of the Knights of Labor
- Knights of Labor
- First mass organization of America's working class
- American Federation of Labor
- A Labor Union
- 1870's work day was how many hours
- 12
- 1870's work week was how many days
- 6
- Haymarket Riot/affair
- a small movement that soon escalated into great violence
- Gov. John Peter Altgeld
- Pardoned three haymarket rioters because he knew punihsing them was wrong
- concerted action
- working together to accomplish a goal
- Uriah Stephens
- Founded the Knights of Labor
- Anarchists
- revolutionaries
- Suffrage
- the right to vote, limited to men until 19th ammendment in 1920
- How many states allowed women the right to vote in 1890
- One
- Between 1882 and 1892, lynching was increased how much
- 200%
- Lincoln's Primary aim of reconstruction
- National Unity
- Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruciton
- by Lincoln, gave a full pardon for rebels renouncing
- Wade Davis Bill
- The Bill that declared 50% of a state's voters must accept pardon before allowed back
- In 1864, did the President and Congress agree on reconstruction
- No
- Lincoln States
- The 4 states that passed Lincol's 10% plan
- Labor Code
- outlawwed wipping but allowed arm to disipline blacks
- Sherman Lands
- over 400,000 acres given to 40,000 free blacks
- What happened on April 15, 1865
- Lincoln was shot
- What kind of demands did Johnson have for the South
- Mild
- Johnson's plan for Reconstruction
- offered pardons to all rebels who said 13th ammendment was correct
- states' rights
- each state had its own constitution and rights
- pardon
- To excuse
- freedmen
- any ex-slaves who were freed by the 13th ammendment
- confiscation
- A higher authority taking land, goods, etc.
- racist
- someone who believes one race is superior to another
- autonomy
- providing for oneself, freedom
- Who was elected in 1868
- General Grant
- How did most Northerners feel about Reconstruction
- Weary
- The Supreme Court did it's part to do what to Reconstruction
- To end
- Who won the election of 1876
- Ruthoford Hayes
- What other election of the election of 1876 like
- Bush vs. Gore
- What was good about Reconstruction
- It insured abolition against slavery
- What was bad about Reconstruction
- It took a long time, and it didn't solve issues like women's suffrage
- Dubious
- doubtful
- What kind of President was Garfield
- He was an honest man
- What happened in the election of 1884
- There was a lot of mudslinging
- What kind of President of Cleveland
- An honest man, and a man of the economy
- Pendelton Act
- established a Civil servise commission of 3 people
- Spoils System
- awarding jobs for political purposes
- What happened to Garfeild
- Shot in the back
- 2 examples of people moving in the 1870-1900 time period
- Canadians moved South, and Europeans traveled to America
- Homestead Act
- Government gave 160 acres of land to any citizen who would farm it for 5 years
- Open Range
- The fencing in of Cattle
- Land Grant
- Land that was given by the government, most was given to railroads
- dispossessed
- People who would never own land
- 1 Example of a mail order house
- Sears Roebuck
- Jacob Riis
- the author of How the Other Half Lives
- What laws became common throughout the South
- Jim Crow Laws
- Congress approved what test for immigrants
- literacy
- What resulted from the literacy tes for immigrants
- Cleveland vetoed it, and it wasn't effective until 1920s
- Where was America's Urban marketing center
- Chicago
- Plutocracy
- a society ran by rich
- ostentatious
- rich people showing their money
- uncouth
- unpolite
- mass transit
- mass transportation like railroads or subways
- Shanties
- Poor People houses
- Isolationism
- to separate your country from other countries
- imperialism
- To expand your country
- Open Door Policy
- A foreign policy set up by Hay that gave trade access to China to all
- Who said "We would take Canada"
- T. Roosevelt
- Who said "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the War"
- Hearst
- Who said "a splendid little war"
- John Hay
- The Maine
- sunk off the coast of Cuba, U.S. blamed Spain and declared war
- Rough Riders
- T.R.'s group he took to Cuba with the army
- yellow journalism
- biassed
- Big City Boss
- A boss that ruled by machine and had more power than the mayor. Corrupt
- William Marcy Tweed
- a New York City Boss, caught, then fled to Europe
- Thomas Nast
- a Cartoonist, made fun of Tweed
- graft
- a type of brbery that gave the Bosses power
- Goo-goos
- proposers of good government
- Hazen S Pingree
- A good mayor who beat the Boss in Detroit
- John Roebling
- Built the Brooklyn Bridge
- Louis Sullivan and John W Root
- Built finest sky scrapers in the world
- A Flat
- a small apartment in a poor area
- Why is Grover Cleveland Unique
- Served 2 non consequtive terms
- Who won the election of 1888
- Benjamin Harrison
- Who saved America's gold reserves in 1895
- J.P. Morgan
- What was the First Federal law regulating railroads
- Interstate commerce Commission Act
- Whas the Sherman Anti Turst Act effective after the first 10 years
- No
- collusion
- combining in secret
- 3 oppressed races in the West
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1. Indians
2. Latinos
3. Chinese - Sherman's Indian Policy
- Moved Indians to different land so they would slowly die
- Dawes Act
- gave each Indian a plot of land
- Battle of Wounded Knee
- Ghost Dance scared soldiers, so they opened fire. Entire tribe of Sioux wiped out
- Who killed the Buffalo
- the railroads
- Corporation
- Buisiness that sells stock
- Consolidation
- Merging of two buisinesses
- Oligopoly
- small number of buisinesses control the market
- Laissez- Faire
- "Hands Off"-government does not interfere with buisiness
- Social Darwinism
- economy has winners and losers, winners make money and live, losers die
- J.P. Morgan
- was banker, became rich, owned United States Steel
- United States Steel
- Owned by Morgan, dominated the Steel buisiness