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US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 13th Amendment | emancipation of slaves, imprisonment allows enslavement |
| sharecropping | lending land and farming it, paying rent for percentage of crop, people were never able to get out of debt |
| Freedman's Bureau | temporary government agency that set up temporary needs for people out of slavery (food, school, medical care) |
| black codes | resisting problem of reconciling, series of laws to restrict African Americans |
| 14th Amendment | Born in U.S.= guaranteed voting rights and citizenship of that person |
| 15th Amendment | If you are a man (even black man), voting for people who represent you |
| Klu Klux Klan | started by confederate veteran organization, evolves into terrorism against groups that disagree |
| Force Act (1870) | Illegal to rob someone of their civil rights |
| Jim Crow Laws | placed poll taxes and literacy tests to prevent black people from voting |
| Convict leasing | prison labor, state can force people who are in prison to work, replicates slavery, benefits plantation owners and big businesses |
| "Lost Cause" | idea of former confederacy, pre-Civil War time was better, Civil War destroyed lives, romanticized south, people who were enslaved were happy |
| racial reconciliation | South stops talking about slavery, black people celebrate Emancipation Day instead |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896-1954) | Plessy challenges Louisiana law, is it constitutional for civil rights to be taken away? ruling=separate but equal |
| lynching | violent killings outside the law, mobs say they were doing it for justice, mainly in former confederate states |
| Ida B. Wells | journalist that unpacks lynching and what is going on behind it |
| rednecks | sunburned neck, farmers made political statement of their class status, shows superiority over black sharecroppers |
| Populist Party | farmer's party, formed in 1892, uniting despite race, tackles Jim Crow laws, equal rights to all, special privileges to none |
| Social Darwinism | survival of the fittest, richest people survive |
| scientific management | how to get most out of workers, having management observe them, encouraged breaks for workers |
| Fredrick W. Taylor | created theory of scientific management |
| Henry Ford | started with no money, becomes known for mastering mass production, makes lots of money, keeps close tabs on workers, anti-immigration |
| Nativitism | true American if you meet certain requirements, anti-immigrant, defined by culture not skin color |
| muckrackers | journalists who want to improve society, calling out problems how they see it and published it in newspapers, racking up muck of society and drawing attention to it |
| temperance movement | no alcohol, prostitution and gambling=illegal, rules for higher quality of society |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory | worst industrial accident up to that point in U.S. history, mostly immigrants, horrifies Americans, changes labor laws, 146 women died |
| National Women's Suffrage Movement (NAWSA) | has meeting with president to try and make change, peaceful, less radical |
| National Women's Party | picketing, more radical, protesting, less peaceful approach |
| Booker T. Washington | enslaved, becomes author and speaker, believes that people eventually achieve equality by living respectable and hardworking lives |
| W.E.B DuBois | was not enslaved but his family was, fight using the political system, founded NAACP |
| Margret Sanger | controversial at the time, less controversial now, nurse, coined the term birth control, tries to make birth control legal, thinks by educating women the country can stop the cycle of poverty |
| Eugenics | less controversial then, more controversial now, controlling who has sex and who does not, claims to be breeding better Americans |
| Yellow journalism | used by media, sell more newspapers, prints exaggerated headlines, yellow was cheapest print |
| Platt Amendment | Cuba will provide Guatalmelian bay as military base for U.S, Cuba must run treaties with other countries by the U.S., U.S. can intervene with Cuba if there is a conflict of interest |
| Roosevelt Corollary | extension of Monroe Doctrine (Europe stays out of North and South America), Roosevelt's perspective, U.S. intervenes in Latin American |
| Anti-Imperialist League | formed in response of the 2 wars, formed in 1899, against torture and argues human right abuse, crisis of identity |
| Lusitania | British passenger ship, Americans on board, ship went through war zone to Europe, German submarine sinks ship, 128 Americans die |
| Zimmerman Telegram | British intelligence, intercepts telegram, sent from Germany to Mexico, if Mexico allies with Germany they will get territory back |
| Selective Service | creation of draft, men ages 21-30 have to register, if number is pulled you have to serve in the military |
| War Industries Board | works with businesses to produce things for the war effort |
| Espionage Act | government ban on material that is critical to the war, nothing against war effort |
| Sedition Act | illegal to publicly speak out against the war |
| Donut Dollies | women who are volunteers for the salvation army and red cross, primarily white women, makes food, organizes games and dances |
| American Women's League of Self Defense | forms because of war, women learning self defense, teach women how to use guns, controversial |
| Fourteen Points | document to try to prevent further wars, wanted League of Nations, acts as meditator |
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