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US History TAKS #4
McLaughlin/Brown- U.S. History-CHS TAKS Review #4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abolished slavery | 13th Amendment |
| gave ex-slaves citizenship | 14th Amendment |
| gave black males the right to vote | 15th Amendment |
| Supreme Court decision that said "separate but equal" was legal; it made Jim Crow legal | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| name given to big business leaders of the era, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carneigie & J.P. Morgan | Robber Barons |
| low wages and child labor led to the organizing of these; Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor & the United Mine Workers were examples of these | labor unions |
| name given to writers of the era, they attempted to expose corruption in politics and industry | Muckrakers |
| government attempt at stopping big business monopolies | Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| the Guilded Age was a time of severe political corruption; political machines, such as the Tweed Ring of New York City used their offices to gain much wealth | corruption |
| low prices led farmers to organize in groups such as the Grange and a political party called the ___ | Populist Party |
| causes: mistreatment of Cubans by the Spanish, sinking of the U.S. Battleship Maine; results: U.S. acquires Puerto Rico, Guam, & the Phillippines; U.S. becomes a world power | Spanish American War- 1898 |
| was an attempt to reform the corruption of the Gilded Age; Progressives wanted to improve the social, political, and economic conditions for workers, farmers, women, children and minorities | progressivism |
| popular president of the early 1900's who led the U.S. into a position of world power | Theodore Roosevelt |
| president during WW1 | Woodrow Wilson |
| reform leader for women's rights and prohibition | Susan B. Anthony |
| founder of the NAACP | W.E.B. Dubois |
| the number one reason was: German subs sinking our ships, Zimmerman note | reason for U.S. involvement in WW1 |
| WW1 peace treaty that redrew the map of Europe and made Germany pay huge amounts of war debts | Treaty of Versailles |
| peace plan for WW1; the most important of the 14 points was his League of Nations (world peace keeping org.); the U.S. Senate led by Henry Cabot Lodge refused to ratify the treaty fearing it would draw us into another war | Wilson's 14 Points |
| Southern blacks migrating to northern cities to escape poverty and Jim Crow | Great Migration |
| the U.S. became more industrialized and dependent on factories | industrialization |
| the population shifted to a majority living in cities and urban areas | urbanization |
| laws were passed to regulate child labor, wages and hours | labor laws |
| women's suffrage | 19th Amendment |
| took 10 years to build; opened trade with the rest of the world | Panama Canal |
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