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SS Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizenship. |
| Who thought Civics was the most important subject | Jefferson, Adams, Madison |
| Where does the Federal Government jurisdiction apply | the United States government, the Constitution or federal laws, or. controversies between states or between the U.S. government and foreign governments. |
| What are the 5 permanently inhabited territories | American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| True or false - The residents of the territories can vote for the President of the US | False |
| I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws advance... and keep pace with the times | No Answer |
| Which thesis about Jefferson's beliefs does the statement above support | Laws must change as society changes. |
| Which court case was responsible for the idea of "Judicial review" | Marbury v. Madison |
| What is the difference between a judge and a justice | judges in most states and in the federal judicial system are called judges, while those on the highest courts are justices. |
| What is the 1st amendment and idea that prohibits the government from permitting a state religion | the Establishment Clause |
| Which amendment was the result of King George lll housing troops in citizen's personal residences | Third Amendment |
| GDP | Gross domestic product. Measures all goods and services produced within a country's borders in a year |
| Managed Economy | Strong government intervention to manage the production of goods and services |
| Laissez Faire | Belief that economic progress in inhibited when governments intervene or get involved |
| Land Grant | an award of land to a recipient with the requirement that a public purpose, as defined by legislation, is served through the grant |
| Economies of Scale | cost advantages reaped by companies when production becomes efficient |
| Holding Company | a corporation that owns sufficient voting stock in another corporation to control its policies and management. |
| Trust | type of industrial organization, in which the voting rights of a controlling number of shares of competing firms were entrusted to a small group of men, or trustees, who thus were able to prevent competition among the companies they controlled. |
| Industrial Union | trade union that combines all workers, both skilled and unskilled, who are employed in a particular industry |
| Lockout | he withholding of employment by an employer from its employees for the purpose of either resisting their demands or gaining a concession from them |
| Closed Shop | an arrangement whereby a place of employment requires current membership in a specific union as a condition of employment |
| Social Darwinism | the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature |
| Jim Crow Laws | state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation |
| Inflation | the overall general upward price movement of goods and services in an economy |
| Referendum | a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue |
| Deflation | a decrease in the general price level of goods and services |
| Nativism | the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of "native-born" or established inhabitants over those of immigrants |
| Philanthropy | the act of voluntary giving by individuals or groups to promote the common good. |
| Graduated Income Tax | tax brackets where tax rates increase as income increases |
| Recall | a power reserved to the voters that allows the voters, by petition, to demand the removal of an elected official. |
| Poll Tax | a tax a person is required to pay before he or she is allowed to vote |
| Tenement | single-family buildings divided into multiple living spaces |
| Settlement House | A group of enterprising settlement house movement leaders sought to achieve change by bridging the gaps between social classes |
| Muckraker | Journalists who wrote about industrial and Gov't scandals |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Segregation | the legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans from whites, as well as the separation of other ethnic minorities from majority and mainstream communities. |
| Party Boss | a person who controls a faction or local branch of a political party. They do not necessarily hold public office themselves |
| Populism | a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people |
| Direct Primary | a form of election in which voters directly choose a political party's candidates for office |
| Prohibition | a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933 |
| Industrialization | The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale |
| Why did American industrialize | Due to the rapid growth in immigration, along with the explosion of Americans moving from farms to the cities |
| What were considered major American resources during the rise of industry | Iron, Coal, Steel, and Lumber |
| Why did factories move to cities | Because the new factories had to be located near water, power, and transportation |
| Who is Andrew Carnegie | A man who produced most of the US's steel by creating a monopoly and becoming a robber baron |
| What industry did he monopolize | Steel |
| Who is John D. Rockefeller | A robber baron that would amass the largest fortune in US History by creating a trust/monopoly called Standard Oil Company which would eventually control all US oil production and sales |
| What industry did he monopolize | Oil industry |
| What is the Gospel of Wealth | A book written by Andrew Carnegie. It said that extremely wealthy Americans like himself had a responsibility to spend their money in order to benefit the greater good |
| How did robber barons monopolize their industries and make mass fortunes | By monopolizing huge industries through the formation of trusts, engaging in unethical business practices, exploiting workers and paying little heed to their customers or competition |
| What is vertical integration | Vertical integration refers to the process of acquiring business operations within the same production vertical |
| What is horizontal integration | A business strategy in which one company merges with another that operates at the same level in an industry |
| What is the purpose of the labor union | To give workers the power to negotiate for more favorable working conditions and other benefits through collective bargaining |
| What tactics did labor unions use | Striking, picketing, and boycotting |
| What is arbitration | The process of resolving a dispute using a 3rd party that both of the disputing parties agree upon |
| Who was associated with the labor movement | The workers and other organizatons |
| What is progressivism | Progressivism is a way of thinking that focuses on social progress. It is a philosophical movement and political movement. The idea of progress is the belief that human society is improving over time |
| What are the goals of progressivism | The main objectives of the Progressive movement were addressing problems caused by industrialization, immigration, and political corruption. It meant to protect social welfare promote moral improvement, to create economic reform, and to foster efficiency |
| Who are muckrakers | Journalists who wrote about industrial and Gov't scandals. They believed that by reporting what was wrong with society, someone would fix the problems |
| What is the 19th amendment | It gave women the right to vote |
| Who wanted to bring about change during the Progressive Era | Christian Organizations |
| What is the Sherman Antitrust Act | It broke up many business monopolies so that competition would be allowed to exist and to prevent price gouging |
| What is the 18th amendment | The Gov't passed the 18th amendment in 1919 which began Prohibition |
| What was the government's involvement in business during progressivism | The government expanded which led to higher taxes. Many citizens were given a larger in the government as well |
| What was the 16th amendment | The 16th amendment was the first national income tax and passed to tax the income tax and passed to tax the incomes of the wealthy to make up for the governments lost revenue from lower tariffs |
| Why was this amendment necessary | This was necessary to keep everything equal |
| What is the Pure Food and Drug Act | This was passed as a result of ___ Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act which would upgrade health standards for food production and regulate the food industry more |
| How did the government respond to laissez-faire policies | They expanded the role of the Federal Government which led to higher taxes |
| What was the Federal Trade Commission | The federal trade commission investigated unfair business practices |
| What was Roosevelt's plan for Progressivism called | The square deal |
| What were the features of his plan(pt 1) | The square deal stopped the practice of sending in troops to break up worker strikes and instead sent in experts to help solve the problem peacefully |
| What were the features of his plan (pt 2) | used the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up many business monopolies so that competition would be allowed to exist and to prevent price gouging and helped create the National Park System which helped conserve special environmental places. |
| Why did the Bull Moose Party form | The party was a third party in the US formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican party to his former rival president William Howard Taft |
| What was Wilson's plan for Progressivism called | Wilson's New Freedom |
| What were the features of his plan | His plan included tariff, banking, and labor reforms and introduced the income tax. All this was created with the Revenue Act of 1913 and the 16th and 17th amendment, the federal trade commission, the Clayton act, and the 19th amendment |
| What is the significance of the Election of 1912 | It showed the effect of what can happen when a viable third party candidate enters to contest. When Theodore Roosevelt entered the race against his former secretary of war, Howard Taft, he split the progressive vote, |
| Imperialism | the policy or act of extending a country's power into other territories or gaining control over another country's politics or economics. |
| Protectorate | a country that is controlled and protected by a more powerful country. |
| Journalism | the reportage of current events in printed form, specifically newspapers |
| Sphere of Influence | the claim by a state to exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory. |
| Armistice | a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting |
| Nationalism | an ideology that emphasizes loyalty, devotion, or allegiance to a nation or nation-state and holds that such obligations outweigh other individual or group interests |
| Propaganda | communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda |
| Dollar Diplomacy | a foreign policy in which the United States lent money to foreign countries in return for the ability to make decisions for the governments of those countries. |
| Reperations | the act or process of making amends for a wrong. |
| Guerilla | member of an irregular military force fighting small-scale, limited actions, in concert with an overall political-military strategy, against conventional military forces |
| Jingoism | an attitude of belligerent nationalism, or a blind adherence to the rightness or virtue of one's own nation, society, or group |
| Pan-Americanism | a movement most prominent in the 19th century that sought to create and encourage more diplomatic, political, and economic cooperation in the Americas |
| Convoy | vessels sailing under the protection of an armed escort |
| Yellow Journalism | a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts |
| Open Door Policy | a statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900. |
| Militarism | the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values |
| Why did the US build up its navy in the 1880's | Americans' neutrality on the seas became difficult to support |
| What happened in the USS Maine | In the evening of 15 February 1898, Maine sank when her forward gunpowder magazines exploded. |
| Who were the Rough Riders | the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt |
| Who was their leader | Lt. Col. Roosevelt |
| What was the Platt amendment | a treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention. |
| What was the Open Door Policy | a statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900. |
| What was the boxer rebellion | an uprising against foreigners that occurred in China about 1900, begun by peasants but eventually supported by the government |
| What was the Roosevelt Corollary | The Roosevelt Corollary of December 1904 stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors |
| What is moral diplomacy or the "white man's burden" | a form of diplomacy proposed by President Woodrow Wilson in his 1912 United States presidential election |
| Who was Gavrilo Princip | shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and set the wheels of world war in motion. |
| Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand | an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia and, from 1896 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne |
| Who were the members of the triple entente | Great Britain, France, and Russia |
| Who were the members of the triple alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
| Who was Queen Victoria | associated with Britain's great age of industrial expansion, economic progress and, especially, empire. |
| Why was Queen Victoria significant in the leadup to the Great War | But those outcomes weren’t always happy—and by marrying off her grandchildren, Victoria inadvertently helped stoke a world war. |
| How did technology outpace battlefield tactics at the beginning of WWl | Machine guns and rapid-firing artillery, when used in combination with trenches and barbed-wire emplacements, gave a decided advantage to the defense |
| What is a battle of attrition | an attempt to grind down an opponent's ability to make war by destroying their military resources by any means |
| What was Wilson's policy of "strict neutrality" | demanded that the belligerents respect American rights as a neutral party |
| What is a U-boat | German submarines – or unterwasser boats (U-boats) – were on a mission to destroy merchant vessels carrying supplies to allied forces in order to hinder their war efforts |
| What was the Lusitania | the sinking of which by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, contributed indirectly to the entry of the United States into World War I. |
| What is the significance of "He kept us out of war" | Wilson's campaign used the popular slogans "He kept us out of war" and "America First" to appeal to those voters who wanted to avoid a war in Europe or with Mexico. |
| What was the Zimmerman telegram" | a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. |
| What year did Congress declare was giving the US the power to enter WWl | April 4, 1917 |
| What is a doughboy | United States soldiers during World War I |
| What impact did the Treaty of Versailles have on Germany and Europe over the next 20 years | The treaty required demilitarization of the Rhineland, the loss of 13% of Germany's prewar territories, and extensive reparation payments by Germany. |
| Failure of the Treaty of Versailles and Wilson's 14 points led to what? (remember Hilter and the Nazi's) | the outbreak of World War II |
| What was the Teapot Dome Scandal | a political scandal that took place in 1921 to 1922. The name comes from an oil reserve near Teapot Rock, Wyoming. President Warren G. Harding let the reserve and another reserve in California, be under the control of the Department of the Interior. |
| What is Supply side economics | a macroeconomic concept that contends that increases in the supply of goods lead to economic growth |
| What is Isolationism and promoting peace | national policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries. |
| What is an assembly line | an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product |
| What is the connection between disposable income, new products, and how Americans lived | New products like radios, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and refrigerators became big along with the creation on credit which made it quicker and eaiser to buy things |
| Who was Sacco and Vanzetti | Italian anarchists |
| Why were flappers significant | they pushed barriers to economic, political and sexual freedom for women |
| What was prohibition | a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933 |
| What were speakeasies | place where alcoholic beverages are illegally sold |
| Who was Gertrude Stein | an American writer and early important collector of avant-garde art who was based in Paris. She is recognized as one of the earliest champions of Cubism. |
| Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald | famous for his depictions of the rich, disenchanted youth of what he called the Jazz Age during the 1920s |
| Who was Earnest Hemmingway | won the Pulitzer Prize (1953) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (1954) for his novel The Old Man and the Sea |
| What was the lost generation | a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s |
| Why was the Harlem Renaissance important | instilled in African Americans across the country a new spirit of self-determination and pride, a new social consciousness, and a new commitment to political activism |
| Which arts and industries were impacted during the Harlem Renaissance | The Harlem Renaissance encompassed poetry and prose, painting and sculpture, jazz and swing, opera and dance. |
| Who was Marcus Garvey | founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) |
| What is the NAACP | a civil rights organization in the United States formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and Ida B. Wells. |
| Who was Charles Lindberg | the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Who was Amelia Earhart | A record setting aviator, she was the second person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic, the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the United States, and much more. |
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