History Midterms 07
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- abolished slavery
- 13th Amendment
- made all males citizens
- 14th Amendment
- gave all citizens the right to vote
- 15th Amendment
- graduated income tax
- 16th Amendment
- direct election of senators
- 17th Amendment
- Prohibition
- 18th Amendment
- women's suffrage
- 19th Amendment
- 160 free acres of land in the Midwest in exchange for improving it in five years
- Homestead Act
- frontierism is good for America
- Frederick Jackson Turner's Thesis
- farmers got laws passed to create a maximum train fare
- Granger Movement
- graduated income tax, term limits for Congressmen
- Omaha Platform
- the rich earn their right to be rich, and therefore deserve the most power
- Social Darwinism
- group of people who are a single legal entity
- corporation
- government jobs through merit system
- Pendleton Act
- government attitude toward business being to not get involved
- laissez-faire
- craft union that used strikes to get shorter workweeks and higher wages
- American Federation of Labor
- riot started by a bombing at a protest of police brutality
- Haymarket Affair of 1886
- Ellis Island, Angel Island
- assimilation process of immigrants
- violent strike by Pullman workers, who said they should either make more money or have lower rent
- Pullman Strike of 1894
- community center providing assisstance to residents- paticularly immigrants- in a slum neighborhood
- settlement houses
- people have greater voice in government and advanced interests of farmers and laboreres
- Populist Party issues
- decreasing crop prices, railroads charging excessive prices for shipping and storage
- problems of farmers
- response to corruption in the Gilded Age
- Progressive movement
- thought black people deserved equality with whites because they lived in America too
- WEB DuBois
- thought black people should earn their equality by proving themselves financially conducive to the economy
- Booker T. Washington
- Panama gained independence from Columbia
- Panamanian rebellion
- Big Stick Diplomacy
- Teddy Roosevelt's Diplomacy
- free Cuba, the de Lôme letter, yellow journalism, explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
- causes of the Spanish-American War
- the use of sensationalized and exaggerateed reporting by newspapers and magazines to attract readers
- yellow journalism
- prime reasons for U.S. imperialism
- military strength, global competition, new markets, natural resources, belief in cultural superiority
- amendment to U.S. Constitution, stating that U.S. could intervene at any time, could buy/lease land for naval bases, and Cuba could not go into debt or make treaties with any other country
- Platt Amendment
- waterway through Panama that drastically reduced coast-to-coast overseas shipping time
- Panama Canal
- Causes of World War I
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Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand - tanks, machine guns
- weapons of mechanized warfare
- France, Britain, Russia
- Triple Entente
- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
- Triple Alliance
- German submarines
- U-boats
- France and Belgium
- Western Front
- no secret treaties, League of Nations, lowered or abolished tariffs, freedom of seas, reduced arms
- Fourteen Points
- U.S. entering World War I
- Zimmerman note, explosion of the Lusitania
- illegal to interfere with war effort or say anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- prejudice against foreign-born people
- nativism
- limit on number of people who could immigrate from each country
- Emergency Quota Act of 1921
- Major cause for Red Scare
- revolutionaries in Russia overthrew the czars, and the Bolsheviks created a Communist state
- emancipated young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day
- flappers
- used assembly line to make large numbers of affordable products
- Henry Ford's impact on mass consumption
- Harding's slogan, meaning a return to isolationism
- "return to normalcy"
- literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture
- Harlem Renaissance
- fight over evolution and the roles of science and religion in public schools and in American society
- Scopes Monkey Trial
- not getting involved with foreign countries
- isolationism
- causes of economic boom in the 1920s
- installment plans, mass production
- causes of economic decline in the 1920s
- credit buying, failing businesses, falling crop prices, buying stocks on margin, uneven distribution of wealth
- October 29, 1929
- Black Tuesday, the day the stock market crashed