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American history
Midterm study notes from study guide for history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Natural rights | Rights to life, liberty and property |
| Social contract | If the Government isn’t protecting rights then it gives citizens the right to establish a new government to protect it |
| Northwest ordinance | Settled many issues by creating a temporary government in the northwest territory |
| Articles of confederation | Helped decide wether and what states should be represented equally |
| What were the weakness/problems in the articles of confederation | Wealth, number of states and congressional authority |
| What are the separation of powers | Limited government, federalism, checks and balances and representative government |
| Federalist papers | Papers that explained to the people why the constitution was vital to the survival of the new nation |
| Anti-federalist papers | Made by the people that objected the constitution because they didn’t want the government to have to much power |
| What are the first ten amendments called | The bill of rights |
| 13th amendment | Abolished slavery |
| 15th amendment | Guaranteed the right to vote |
| Who are exodusters? | A group of former slaves |
| What were Jim Crow laws | Laws that made segregation legal; “separate but equal” |
| What was the KKK’s goal? | Their goal was to make sure that no black man/women had the right to vote |
| Compromise of 1877 | Hayes was elected president then federal troops were withdrawn from the south |
| Homestead act of 1862 | Offered 160 acres of land to anyone willing willing to live on it for 5 years and build and farm on it |
| What was the Dawes act | Distributed reservation land to individual natives to encourage assimilation |
| Carsile Indian school | Forced assimilation upon native Indians in the US |
| Little Bighorn | A battle against general custards army and the natives which resulted in general custards death |
| Where were “new” immigrants from | Irish and German from southern and eastern and Europe that arrived in WW1 |
| Where were “old” immigrants from | Mostly came from Iltaly, Greece, Poland , Hungary and Russia |
| Chinese exclusion act | Prohibited migrations by Chinese laborers and limited rights of the Chinese immigrants |
| What were angel island and Ellis island | Where immigrants would travel to where they would get processed and let in the US |
| Tenements | Low-cost, multifamily, housing, designer squeeze as many families as possible |
| Religious groups | Lots of different groups due to the religious freedom in the US |
| Employment | Lots of faculty jobs that were low pay that were offered to immigrants |
| Industrial Revolution | A revolution that was had to help citizen life and improve the quality of their life |
| Urbanization | Caused by mass immigration that caused rural areas to transform into city’s |
| Andrew Carnegie | Rockefeller and steel tycoon |
| John D Rockefeller | The Ohio oil tycoon |
| Vertical integration | Allowed companies to reduce their cost of production |
| Horizontal integration | Used to gain monopoly of a product and/or a service |
| Inventions | Washing machine, telephone, refrigerator, car, plane and skyscraper |
| Purpose of labor unions | Groups of workers who act as one to negotiate with the business owners from better conditions, working hours, wages and to fight child labor |
| Collective bargaining | Negotiations between an employer and a group of workers who agree on working hours, conditions and/or wages |
| What was the pattern in the causes and outcomes of conflict between labor and business owners at the end of the 1800’s | The workers would likely lose to the owners because the owners get support from the government which the workers did not have |
| What was the progressive movement and what was their goal? | Its goal was to protect Americans but at the same time gain control of their lives |
| Who was Jacob Riis | He was a influential muckraker that was a photographer for the NYC evening sun |
| What did George warring do to help the new urban America | He recruited a bunch of sanitary workers to clean the city up to help stop illnesses from spreading |
| What happened at the triangle shirtwaist factory | A fire spread across the building causing many deaths because of lack of fire escapes |
| What is a Muckracker | A writer that dramatizes the need for reform through writings and photos to spread awareness |
| What was “the jungle” about | It was a book about how poor the conditions were in meat packing facilities and how unsanitary the practices were |
| Who was Jane Adam’s | She was the leader of the settlement house movement which provided housing and community to the urban poor |
| Initiative | Gave people power to put a proposed new law directly on the ballot in the next election |
| Why was prohibition enacted? | Enervated because people thought alcohol promoted immoral behaviors and thought it was healthier to not drink it |
| What amendment took prohibition away? | The 21st amendment that passed during the great depression |
| Who led the women’s suffrage movement | Alice Paul and Carrie Catt (Alice Paul pulled many radical ways of protesting) |
| What were the results of prohibition | Speakeasies were created and people found ways to illegally smuggle and buy/drink alcohol during prohibition |
| What amendment added women’s suffrage to the constitution | 19th amendment |
| Why were people afraid of the red scare | Scared that communism would spread to the US |
| What were the results of the red scare | Arrest and deportation of hundreds of suspected communist and distrust of labor unions |
| What were the causes of the great migration | Jim Crow laws and the Plessy vs. Ferguson case |
| What were the results of the great migration | Harlem renaissance, increased social freedoms and race riots |
| What was the Harlem renaissance | When novelist,poets and artist collaborated to increase awareness of the struggles of being a black American |
| 1924 Johnson-reed immigration law | Made it so each year only 2 percent of each nationality could immigrate to the US |
| League of nations | A league to secure mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity |
| What did the 1929 Kellogg-Briand pact attempt to outlaw | Attempted to outlaw conflict between nations |
| What happened to the standard of living in the 1920’s | The standard of living increased because of all the new inventions created |
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