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Mid-Term Exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| hooverize | wheatless Mondays conserving food |
| Selective Service Act | was determined by a lottery |
| Selling the war | the task of committee on public information job |
| Espionage and Sedition Acts | silenced criticism of the war at home |
| Great Migration | during WWI a flow of A.A from south to north |
| heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary Fran Ferdinand | What person was killed that helped start WWI? |
| Triple Entente | included Britain, France, and Russia |
| Pres Wilson's invasion of Veracruz | was opposed in Europe and Latin America |
| the U.S., Britain, France, and Italy | The Big Four |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Company | tragedy there led to strict building codes requiring fire escapes |
| Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia | 1908 Serbs became made when? |
| 1902 Coal Miners strike | was an example of groups pursuing their private interest at the expense of the nation |
| Zimmerman telegram | according to this if Mexico allied with Germany, Germany would help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona |
| 1920 Interstate Commerce commission | had drifted from its original purpose and had started raising rates to help ensure RR profit |
| because it would split the Republican Party | Why did Roosevelt tell Taft to stay away from tariff reform? |
| Laboratory of Democracy | Wisconsin's nickname |
| Underwood Tariff Act | included a provision for levying and income tax |
| Progressives faith | have faith in science and expertise |
| direct primary | all party members vote for a candidate to run in the general election |
| for negotiating peace between Russia and Japan | Why did T. Roosevelt win the Nobel Prize? |
| Open Door Policy | the purpose of this in China was to ensure trading rights for all nations |
| Naturalism | philosophy that stated that some people failed in life simply because they were caught up in circumstances they could not control |
| Cincinnati Red Stockings | first salaried baseball team |
| individualism | no matter how humble your origins, you can rise as far as your talent and commitment will take you |
| political machines | provided new city dwellers with things such as jobs, housing, and police protection in exchange for their votes |
| Tammany Hall | political machine |
| Salvation Army | organization that offered practical aid and religious counseling to the poor |
| Subways | developed to relieve congestion in the cities |
| First international American Conference | U.S. wanted Latin American delegates to agree to a customs union which would reduce tariffs among American nations |
| Nativists | wanted to limit immigration |
| Territory in Manchuria | In 1894, Japan acquired what? |
| because of his charisma and war fame | Why was T. Roosevelt chosen as McKinley's running mate? |
| to evacuate Americans if necessary | Why did McKinley send the Maine to Cuba? |
| independent country | What are the Philippines now? |
| Platt Amendment | made Cuba into an American protectorate |
| by passing a tariff on sugar | How did the U.S. cause an economic crisis in Cuba? |
| when McKinley was assassinated | When did T. Roosevelt become president? |
| Workingman's party of California | formed to fight Chinese immigration |
| to work on railroads | Why did the Chinese come in the 1860s? |
| Eastern and Southern Europe | Immigrants in the late 1890s were from where? |
| lockout | technique of breaking unions |
| streetcar suburbs | middle class |
| Credit Mobilizer scandal | pacific investigators got rich by paying bills from a construction company they controlled |
| William T. Tweed | corrupt party boss in a political machine |
| Gospel of Wealth | philosophy that wealthy Americans had the responsibility of their great fortunes to further social progress |
| transcontinental railroad | pushed west from Omaha, Nebraska |
| saloons | function like community centers for male workers in the 1800s |
| placer mining | earliest prospectors would extract shadow deposits of ore by this |
| dry farming | farmers planted seeds deep in the ground where there was enough moisture |
| Chisholm trail | trail that cowboys used to drive cattle to a RR line for sale |
| Pike's peak or bust | phrase used by gold miners near Pike's Peak |
| miners in the Colorado mountains | didn't find minerals because minerals were too deep |
| dime novels | came from cowboys' exaggerated tales of daring |
| Comstock Lode | rich deposit of silver |
| selling government land grants | Where did railroads get most of their money? |
| Central Pacific Railroad | hired workers from China because of the shortage of workers in California |
| by investing in more machines and larger manufacturing facilities | How can corporations achieve economies of scale? |
| resulted in lower cost/prices | What are economies of sale? |
| Petroleum | in high demand because it could be turned into kerosene |
| Wounded Knee | confrontation here occurred because the chiefs followers continued to perform ritual |
| Sand Creek Massacre | incident that happened due to the Cheyenne/Arapaho people attacking the miners who had flocked to Colorado in search of gold and silver |
| Wheat on the Great Plains | had an advantage because it could withstand drought better than other crops |
| no | Did unions have women? |
| railroad in the early 1900s | made sufficient profits building their lines |
| states from imposing tariffs which helps goods to flow freely around the country | Constitution bans what? |
| Americans | Who started the Battle of Little Big Horn? |
| Economic depression in the late 1800s | slowed down immigration to the U.S. |
| Plains Indians religion | religion based on the belief in the spiritual power of the natural world |
| Matthew Perry | before he arrived in Japan, the Japanese had never before seen steam ships |
| nomads | most Native American nations on the Great Plains lived as these |
| sickly child, born to a wealthy family | T. Roosevelt's childhood |
| Great Plains | receives less than 20 inches of rain per year |
| Progressivism | not an organized political movement, didn't have a set of goals, informal |
| prospectors and the mines | not everyone that mined became very rich |
| Progressives | though that by applying scientific principles to society, they could fix its problems |
| Pike's Peak | In what area was gold found? |
| quartz mining | deposits dried up, commercial mining either left or continued on a limited basis |
| efficiency progressives | believed that less democracy in government would make it more efficient |
| Russia and WWI | lost substantial territory when they pulled out of the war |
| they admired Wilson's ideology and desire for peace | What did the Big Four think about Wilson's 14 points? |
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