IMPORTANT THINGS WE NEED TO KNOW FOR HISTORY EXAM
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- Frederick Douglas
- was abolitionist during pre-civil war when fighting about slavery
- Jefferson Davis
- President of the Confederate States of America // introduced set of resolutions so that federal government to enforce Dred Scott case to protect territorial slavery
- Zimmerman Note
- Written by Arthur Zimmerman, a German foreign secretary. In this note he had secretly proposed a German- Mexican alliance. He tempted Mexico with the ideas of recovering Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The note was intercepted on March 1, 1917 by the U.S. government. This was a major factor that led us into WWI.
- Harriet Beecher Stow
- wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin // "little old lady who started the war"- Abe Lincoln // was for the union- (against slavery)
- Cycle of Poverty
- From reconstruction era // newly freed slaves only had freedom to SHARE CROP
- bleeding Kansas
- Term referring to bloodshed over popular sovereignty in a particular western territory
- times when power of presidency expanded
- Abraham Lincoln- during civil war- expended writ of habeas Corpus // Palmer raids- people could be thrown into prison without any evidence // Guantanamo bay- people have been in jail there for like two years that haven't been charged for anything
- black codes
- what the south did to fight reconstruction policies // slavery banned- Okay, states will make rules of what blacks can't do (so basically still slavery) // country was trying to pass laws 13th, 14th, 15th
- Reverend Russell Conwell
- "acres of diamonds" = sermon // If you're a good Christian and work hard God will reward you with money, will help you
- vertical integration
- own all means of production // consistency of product // profitable businesses
- red scare
- two periods of time, in the 1920s and 1950s, in which Americans feared the growth of communism. These suspicions led to tests of the civil liberties of people under the Constitution.
- sectionalist's tension
- state rights and slavery
- Stephen A. Douglas
- Kansas- Nebraska act // popular sovereignty // thought could end slavery if people vote
- home stead act
- incentive for people to move out west and farm after civil war
- Albert Fall
- secretary of interior // let oil company get land // teapot dome scandal (Warren G. Harding was president)
- Kansas - Nebraska act
- when popular sovereignty started
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- critic of WW // wanted league of nations after WW1 // Senator //
- trust busters
- where government tries to break up trust or monopolies
- Vladmir Lenon
- russian revolution // created red scare
- Progressive People
- wanted to give government back to people
- Frances Willard
- Led the women's Christian temperance union (WCTU) // woman who was against alcohol and would take it from men at bars (leading to banning of alcohol- leading to violence and crime-- Al Capone)
- Tuskegee institue
- set up by Booker T. Washington // advocate industrial education
- Prohibition
- government banned alcohol // led to violence and organized crime // Al Capone // corruption and paying off of cops
- Cyrus McCormic Reaper
- created reaper // invented mechanical reaper // agricultural inventions and technology
- CPI
- Committee for Public Information // propaganda machine to get Americans to demonize the Germans and get them to support the war effort
- Tenor of Office Act
- forbade president from dismissing any government official with out consent of the state (Johnson)
- Samuel Slater
- lead to factory movement // escaped England andmemorized plans for textiles and came up north to build up factory // STARTED INDUSTRIALISM // England didn't want smart business men going to US- and he did //
- Horizontal consolidation
- all owned by same but compete // John D. Rockefeller
- John Deere
- Agricultural inventions and technology // invented steel plow
- Abraham Lincoln
- banned slavery- wanted union to be whole (slavery or not) // president during civil war //
- frontier theory
- mother nature doesn't care about your last name // moving out west means social leveler
- Captain of Industry
- wealthy business men
- Frances Lowell
- helped establish first "mill town" // in Mass. // helped northern dependency on mills