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History Semester 1
Everything from Semester one, including about 7 units
Question | Answer |
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monopoly | a situation in which only one seller controls the production, supply, or pricing of products for which there are no close substitutes |
robber barons | critics of rockefeller, s |
sherman antitrust act | 1890, made it illegal to form a trust that intervered with the free trade between states or with any other country |
why did we need international tarde from the late 1800s to the early 1900s? | |
Opponents of social darwinism | the poor |
social gospel | 19th century reform movement based on the belief that christians have the responsibility to help improve working conditions and alleviate poverty |
william jennings bryan and the gold standard | democratic convention, delivered address to assembly delegates |
unalianable rights | natural rights, are not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs or a particular society |
factory job, what was it like | |
why did factory workers hire women rather than men? | |
goals of the progressive movement | remove corruption, include more people more directly in the political process, government must play a role to solve social problems |
what slowed the progressive movement and its reforms | |
John Hay | issued the open door notes |
Open Door policy | share trading rights with the U.S., creating an open door |
SpanishAmerican war , causes and effects | cuase: interfearence of media, realized that the Cuban was close to defeat the Spaniards they intervened in the war |
building of the panama canal | |
Teddy Roosevelt's role in the Panamanian revolution | helped organize rebellion against columbia |
BIg stick diplomacy | The idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the “big stick |
dollar diplomacy | to further its foreign policy aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. |
moral diplomacy | stated that America should not get involved with foreign affairs |
beginning of WWI, most people wre isolationists or interventionists? | isolationists |
Great migration. Why? Who? | African Americans from the south to the north to escape racism, seek employment opportunities in industrial cities, and to get better education for their children |
Stanton and Anthony | women's suffrage |
Senecca falls convention | first women's rights convention, anti-slavery movement, sufrage |
President Harding promised to bring what in the 1920s? | |
ACLU | |
KKK | |
18th amendment | |
21st amendment | |
1890s women working for sufrage went through what difficulty or event? | |
WWI, women strengthen movement by what? | |
Harlem Rennaisance. When did it begin? Where? Writers? Musicians? | |
How did Harlem Rennaisance appeal to mainstream America? | |
RAdio and movies, pop culture inthe 1920s | |
Mass production | |
Federal Reserve | |
1920s, industry produce more, wages went? | down |
Conditions for farmers | |
factory owners opposed labor unions in the early 1900s. Why? | |
Could women vote before WWI? | Yes, in select states |
why were there high tariffs in the 1920s | |
How did credit affect the 1920s stock market crash? |