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SS Midterm
For my brother and for me to get an A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 13st Amend | banned slavery throughout the nation |
| 14th | Citizenship of all persons born or naturalized in US. Guaranteed citizens equal protection of laws. |
| 15th | - Forbade any states to deny any citizen the right to vote because of race color or previous condition of servitude.(slavery) |
| 16th | Gave congress the power an income tax |
| 17th | Allowed for direct election of senators |
| 18th | Made it illegal to sell alcoholic drinks in the US |
| 19th | Guaranteed women the right o vote |
| Acculturation | the process of holding on to older traditions while adapting to a new culture |
| Jane Addams | Leading figure of the settlement |
| Age of Imperialism | policy of powerful countries seeking to control the economical and political affairs of weaker countries |
| Alliances | agreement between nations to aid and protect one another |
| American Federation of Labor | an organization open to only skilled workers |
| Anarchist | people opposing all forms of organized gov’t |
| Armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Black Hand motivation | a Serbian terrorist group |
| Bureaucracy | a system of managing gov’t through departments run by appointed officials |
| Andrew Carnegie | a rich, Scottish immigrant, had ideas of how to make money and how to spend it. He influenced many. |
| Cattle Kingdom | wide varieties of cattle ranches set up by the Spanish/Mexicans. Cattle freely roamed on the plains of Texas |
| Dividend | shares of a cooperations profit |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Taft’s policy of building strong economic ties to Latin America |
| Expansionism | extemding its national boundries |
| Federal Reserve Act | set up a system of federal banks |
| Archduke Ferdinand | assassinated by the Black Hand terrorists because of Ferdinand’s visit to Sarajevo |
| Food Administration | nations way of feeding troops and send food to the allies |
| Free Enterprise System | businesses owned by private citizens |
| Jay Gould | financer and railroad owner; started panic of Black Friday with James Frisk |
| Graduated Income Tax | taxes people at different rates |
| Haymarket Riot | an incident causing consequences to anarchists; no real evidence found |
| William Hearst | challenged Joseph Pulitzer with his journalism “New York Journal” |
| Hull House | a settlement house opened in 1898 by Jane Addams |
| Initiative | gave voters right to put a bill before state legislature |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws separating blacks and whites |
| League of Nations | “general association of nations” |
| Henry Cabot | republican, chairmen of Senete Foreign Relations Committee |
| Platt Amendment | allowed US to intervine in Cuba amd gave the US comtrol of the navel base at Guantanamo. |
| Progressives | forward thinking people who wanted to improve American life |
| Public Interest | the good of the people |
| Referendum | allowed voters to put a bill on the ballot and vote it into law |
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