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Fusaro midterm
Fusaro - midterm review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 15th amendment | States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race. |
| laws that restricted African Americans' voting rights | Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites |
| Freedman's Bureau, 1865 | Set up to help freed African Americans (former slaves) and white refugees after Civil War. Provided food, clothing, medical care, and education. First to establish schools for blacks to learn to read as thousands of teachers from the north came south to h |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | "Separate but equal" - Supreme Court decision which legalized segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal |
| Laissez-faire | Idea that government should interfere as little as possible in economic affairs. |
| What caused the movement from rural (farming) to urban (city) areas in the late 1800s? | Industrialization (factory jobs) in the north and midwest |
| Results of assembly line and interchangeable parts | mass producing identical goods quickly - more workers were needed for factory jobs |
| Purpose of labor unions: | Increase the wages ($) and improve the working conditions of workers |
| Pullman Strike | 1894 - nonviolent strike (brought down the railway system in most of the West) at the Pullman Palace Car Co. over low wages (pay) - Prez. Cleveland shut it down because it was interfering with mail delivery |
| Why did workers go on strike (refuse to work)? | to protest unsafe and terrible working conditions |
| How did Andrew Carnegie feel about the growth of industry? | it improved the lives of most Americans |
| How did trusts and monopolies hurt consumers (people who buy goods)? | lack of competition in business causes prices to go up |
| Social Darwinism | The belief that only the fittest (most talented) survive in human political and economic struggle. |
| What caused the growth of cities? | tenements, improved transportation, bridge building |
| Some immigrants tried to assimilate, which means: | they wanted to blend into a larger culture |
| Nativists | U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them |
| Why did most immigrants settle in cities? | factory jobs for unskilled workers and affordable housing |
| Temperance Movement | campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages |
| Results of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | changes in local labor laws for women and children - safer working conditions |
| Mukrakers | Journalists who specialized in uncovering corruption and scandal |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | law passed to break up trusts and regulate the power of big business |
| After the Seneca Falls Convention, women started to ____ more outside the home. | work |
| Manifest Destiny | 1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| Effect of Transcontinental Railroad | impacted settlement - population of the West increased since people could travel west more easily and faster |
| Homestead Act | Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration. |
| What were effects on Native Americans of thousands of American settlers migrating west of the Mississippi River? | US troops fought Native Americans, buffalo population decreased, Native Americans forced onto reservations |
| Imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. |
| Monroe Doctrine | warned other nations in Europe not to establish new colonies in the Americas |
| Yellow Journalism | journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. |
| How did Americans feel about the purchase of Alaska? | many thought it was worthless because it was ice and cold |
| Results of explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor: | caused American outrage, forced McKinley to take action in Cuban Revolution |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine - "speak softly and carry a big stick" |
| Spark of (caused) World War I: | Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| What caused the U.S. to join the Allies in fighting WWI? | publication of the Zimmerman Telegram |
| How did Germany threaten to attack passenger vessels (ships)? | through Unrestricted Submarine Warfare |
| One way the U.S. financed (paid for) WWI? | Americans bought war bonds |
| League of Nations | A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. Proposed by President Woodrow Wilson, rejected by America |
| Effects of Treaty of Versailles on Germany | Germany had to take full blame, reduction of military, reparation payments - harsh punishment, faced economic crisis as result |
| What events reflected a fear of immigrants in the U.S. following WWI? | KKK, Red Scare, Emergency Quota Act |
| FDR's policies during the the Great Depression showed he was willing to use the powers of the _______. | federal government (to deal with economic problems) |
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