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History Midterm
USHII
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| significance of skyscrapers | more people in a given space, growing cities, steel frame and elevator |
| Elisha Otis | inventor of elevator safety break |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | author, leader in the navy, believed america needed a strong navy to be a world power, influenced McKinley and Roosevelt (great white fleet) |
| Imperialist motives | military strategy, resources, markets, spread religion, spread political ideology |
| William McKinley | prez during Spanish American War, DeLome letter, pushed into war |
| George Dewey | admiral of navy, fire first shots of s.a. war, sinks Spanish fleet at Manila Bay |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino rebel, revolted against Spanish |
| Rough Riders | Roosevelt's volunteer cavalry, helped take Kettle Hill |
| William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer | editors of yellow journalist papers |
| Treaty of paris | 1898 - ended the sp. am. war, gave us Puerto Rico, Guam, we bought Philippines |
| progressives | fight for positive change |
| Jacob Riis | How The Other Half Lives, book, photographer, exposed conditions of poverty |
| 17th amendment | people get to directly elect senators |
| Recall | americans have the right to remove an elected official during term |
| Initiative | allows for people to introduce legislation not just house of reps and senators |
| Referendum | peoples right to vote on particular issues |
| temperance movement | movement to end the sale of alcohol |
| susan b anthony | fought for women's suffrage |
| square deal | solve social problems, regulate business, promote conservation, regulate railroads |
| roosevelt corollary | addition to monroe doctrine - US would act as the policeman of the western hemisphere |
| wwi years | 1914-1918 |
| Austria-Hungary | where WWI began, heir to throne is assassinated |
| central powers | Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria |
| Triple Entente | Great Britain, Frane, Russia |
| Militarism/alliances/imperialism/nationalism | Germany building up its army, countries were imperialist nations, big nations wanted small ones and small ones wanted independence, countries were forming alliances |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to throne, assassinated, spark that began war |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | Leader of germany during WWI |
| Lusitania | british ship carrying weapons, sank by german U-Boat, 120 Americans died |
| Woodrow Wilson | Prez during WWI, wanted to stay out of war |
| Espionage and Sedition act | Laws made it illegal to get in the way of war effort, people were fined/jailed |
| John J Pershing | leader of Am forces in Europe, refused to let American forces to fight under European command |
| American expidentionary force | an army in europe during WWI |
| Stalemate | neither side advanced very far |
| doughboys | nickname given to AEF |
| the 369th | Harlem Hellfighters - African Am Regime earned Croix de Guerre |
| armistice | agreement to put down weapons nov 11 11:00 |
| buying on margin | put down 10% with a promise to pay the rest later |
| inflation of stock prices | companies were claiming they were worth more than they actually were |
| black tuesday | october 29th 1929 - stocks lost 23% of their value, symbolic beginning of the great depression |
| herbert hoover/great depression | reconstruction finance corps, raised top tax bracket, public works, smoot-hawley tariff |
| aaa | Agricultural Adjustment Act |
| tva | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| ccc | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| nra | National Recovery Administration |
| wpa | Works Progress Administration |
| fdic | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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