Social Studies Mid-Term
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- muckraker
- journalist who informs the public about corruption in business
- Because it had the sensational stories everyone wanted to hear
- Why was yellow journalism so sucessful?
- Jane Addams
- founded most famous settlement house in american history, the hull house in chicago
- because of Article 10 in the League of Nations. It stated that if a country in the league of nations got attacked all of the other countries in the league had to back it up. The US felt that this would only start another war.
- Why did the senate reject the versailles treaty?
- rebate
- a payment given backto a person or company that purchases a good or service
- Any answer can be right you just be able to back it up.
- Which metaphor best describes immigrants coming to America: melting pot, tossed salad, or patchwork quilt?
- inflation
- process that makes money more widely available and therefore less valuable
- web dubois
- 1st baclk to earn Ph.D from harvard encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped to create NAACP in 1910; brake the color line...demanded equal rights
- lock
- an enclosed chamber in a damor canal with gates at each end for raising or lowering vessels by admitting or releasing water
- capitol
- money in the form of savings that is invested in a business
- Alfred Mahan- idea was that you would control all sea trade when the enemies would fight back you would blockade them and get them into a fight that they could not win
- Whose strategy did the US adopt when they were rebuilding their Navy?
- cornelius vanderbilt
- united states financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shopping bisinesses
- attrition
- weakening by continual assault
- discrimination
- treating people in a different way because of prejudice
- Buffalo Soldiers and Rough Riders
- What two military units became famous during the fighting in Cuba?
- w. Jennings Bryan
- wrote the "cross of gold" speech
- andrew carnegie
- contolled all phases of the steel industry; believed in the "gospel of wealth"
- They thought that the immigrants would never blend in. They were too different. They were going to make crime
- Give two reasons nativists protested for limits on immigration
- George Dewey
- U.S. naval commander wholed the american attackon the Philippines
- immigration
- to enter and settle in a coutry or region to which isnot native
- capitalism
- economic systeminwhich the means of production such as land and factories are privately owned and operated for profit; the wealth and goods pass freels between producers and consumers
- regulate
- to bring under the control of the law
- mobilize
- to make armed forces and/or eonomy ready for war
- To protest the bad working conditions, long hours, and low pay in factories
- What are the reasons labor unions were formed?
- political machine
- organized group within a political party that is strong enough to control the party
- anarchist
- person who wants to do away with all government
- They were getting to big to fast. When they got to big they would be overcrowded tenements were set up, the crime rate goes up, when one thing catches on fire everything else does as well, water sources are also polluted
- What were some of the problems associated with the urbanization of some US cities?
- torpedo
- a cigar shaped self-propelled underwater projective punched from a place, ship, or submarine and desinged to be detonated by contact with or in the vicinity of the target
- thomas edison
- man whose inventions changed the way americans lived and also created whole new industries
- Upton Sinclair
- authos of "The Jungle"- a book describing the unhealthy conditions in the meat packing plants of Chicago
- Teddy Roosevelt
- president; progressive politic; big areas of involvement are conservation, Sherman Anti Trust Act, and Pure food drug act
- emigration
- leaving one country to go to another
- investor
- person who lends or used money for a business deal inorder to make more money
- Jacob Riis
- a journalist in the late 1800s whose book "how the other half lived" exposed the awful conditions on NYC's slums and poor people
- j.d. rockefeler
- created a monopoly of the oil industry
- When an alliance occured the countries involved had to back each other up and when one country entered a war with another some other country had to back them up and then a dominoe effect occured
- How did the alliance system in Europe help bring about the war?
- socialism
- prgram who lends or used money for a business deal in order to make more money
- william tweed
- political machines and boss; boss of tammany hall; controlled the democratic party in new york city; went to jail; nich name " Boss Tweed"
- oratory
- practice of giving speeces or reciting poems and essays for an audience
- suffrage
- right to vote
- textile
- cloth or fabric made by weaving threads together
- John J. Pershing
- Lt. of the buffalo Soldiers; nick-name "Black John Pershing"
- George Goethals
- supervised the Panama canal when things got bad
- stalemate
- a situation where no side is ale to gain an advantage
- sniper
- a solitary marksman
- Coal Oil Iron (Timber)
- What are the three natural resources that drove the industrial age
- yellow journalism
- journalism that explores distorts or exaggerates
- scapegoat
- someone or something that reveives that blame for things that go wrong
- barrage
- a wave of an artillery fire from many guns
- William Gorgas
- Army physician who helped eradicate Yellow Fever and malaria from Panama to work on Panama canal could proceed
- Pick one and be able to back it up
- Which of the natural resources do you think was the most important?
- sweatshop
- place where people work for low pay and in uncomfortable conditions
- article 10
- if territory of a member was threatened, US might have to go towar"- is war necessary
- PUSH: natural disasters, religious or ethnic persecution PULL: voting rights, freedoms, religious tolerance
- Name at least 2 things tht pushed or pulled people to America
- To be sure they were not criminals, to check for diseases etc.
- Why did the US require immigrants to be processed before entering the US?
- Samuel Gompers
- founder of american federation of labor
- alliance
- an agreement
- flank
- the right or left side of a military formation, generally considered the most vulnerable point at which to launch and attack
- Rich wanted money backed by Gold, and some people wanted bimetal (both silver and gold) The major question was did everyone want plentiful money of not?
- What was the major debate on the money supply at this time?
- no man's land
- the land between two opposing lines of trenches
- That we cant "crucify" the farmers and factory workers because they are the basis of the nation (i think if you have something better tell me)
- What was the major focus of the Cross of Gold speech?
- Pulitzer and Hearst
- Name the two most influential newspaper men of the time
- shrapnel
- fragments of an exploding shell or bomb
- Woodrow Wilson
- threatened to cut off ties with Germany because of the sinking of the Lusitania asked for a declatation of war and congress agreed; treaty of versailles
- Franz Ferdinand
- archduke of Austra, assassinated/ his deah was one of the main causes for WWI
- Ida B. Wells
- against lunchings; wrote the book" Red Record" which was about the illegal hangings
- editoral
- an article in a newspaper or magazine which exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers
- trust
- organization of companies formed with the intentionofcontrolling an industry
- persecute
- to treat people harshly or crueely and deny their rights
- annexation
- the act or process of incorportating a territory into an existing country or state
- ellis island
- an island in new york bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the united states
- Ferdinand De Lesseps
- french diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal
- imperialism
- the policy of extending a nation authority by territoral acquisition
- Ida Tarbell
- muchraker whotargeted the unfair practices of big business. her articles about the standard oil company led todemands for tighter controls on trust