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Unit 1 History
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| A document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study (ex: Anne Frank's Diary). | Primary Source |
| Interprets and analyzes primary sources (ex: history textbook). | Secondary Source |
| "Who is the author? When was it published? Is it consistent? Does it contain bias?" Are things you should ask when determining if a source is...? | Credible |
| Jobs, religious persecution, escape oppressive government, natural disaster, famine, and war are reasons that...? | Immigrants came to the U.S. |
| Overt favoritism toward Native-born Americans. | Nativism |
| The growth of cities. | Urbanization |
| Housing, transportation, water, crime, fire, and sanitation. | Problems that arose from urbanization. |
| Immigrants and farmers came here because they were the most convenient and cheap places to live. | Cities |
| Shift from an agricultural economy to one of heavy industry and manufacturing. | Industrialization |
| Cheap labor, market, abundance of natural resources, and the government was supportive of the growth and development of heavy industry. | Causes of industrialization |
| Made harmful trusts and monopolies illegal. Made trusts that interfered with free trade illegal. | Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| Made all shipments fair by making cost the same for everybody. | Elkin's Act |
| Limited distribution of free railroad passes. | Hepburn's Act |
| Abuse of workers (long hours, low pay, no compensation for injury or death on the job, and workers could be fired without cause) led to...? | Formation of Labor Unions |
| A law that required segregation by race. | Jim Crow Law |
| Separation by race. | Segregation |
| The court ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations didn't violate the 14th amendment. | Ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) |
| Poll tax, literacy test, and the grandfather clause were steps taken in order to prevent...? | African-American Voting |
| Association that aimed for equality of races. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
| Co-founder of the NAACP, felt that African-Americans should speak out to gain Civil Rights. | W.E.B. Dubois |
| Believed that racism would end once African-Americans acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society. | Booker T. Washington |
| Protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, and fostering efficiency were the...? | Basic Goals of the Progressives |
| Inventor of the assembly line, first to mass produce automobiles. | Henry Ford |
| Made direct election of senators then law of the land. | 17th Amendment |
| Banned alcohol; enabled prohibition. | 18th Amendment |
| Gave women the right to vote. | 19th Amendment |
| Gave government the right to tax on personal income. | 16th Amendment |
| Roosevelt's plan to protect people from big businesses. | Square Deal |
| Roosevelt passed this in order to protect people from contaminated food and drugs. | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| These people made the workplace more efficient by raising pay and allowing pets in the workforce. | Progressives |
| The policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories. | Imperialism |
| The desire for military strength, the thirst for new markets, and the belief in cultural superiority contributed to this. | U.S. Imperialism |
| America wanted the sugar planters of Hawaii, so they ____ it. | Annexed |
| Type of sensationalized, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers. | Yellow Journalism |
| The mocking of the U.S. president and the De Lôme letter were sources of yellow journalism that fueled...? | Spanish-American War |
| U.S. gained wake island, Guam, Puerto Rico, and freed Cuba (with conditions) as a result of the...? | Treaty of Paris |
| A Filipino revolutionary leader who fought against Spanish colonial rule. | Emilio Aguinaldo |
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