2023 SS STUDENT Midterm Study Guide

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13th Amendment
Ended slavery (granted rights to African Americans)
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14th Amendment
Gave citizenship to African Americans \n (granted rights to African Americans)
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**15th Amendment**
Allowed African Americans the right to vote (granted rights)
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Reconstruction
The time after the CIvil War when the North and South were coming back together and rebuilding the country

(UNSUCCESSFUL DUE TO JIM CROW LAWS)
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Jim Crow Laws
Laws to __limit the freedoms of__ African Americans by **separating** them from the White people. 

LIMITED FREEDOMS of African AMericans. 

Failure of Reconstruction.
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Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clause
Literacy Test
Restrict voting rights of African Americans
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Segregation
The separation of African Americans and Whites through the creation of separate facilities for each race.
IT WAS NOT EQUAL (limit freedoms)
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**Plessy v. Ferguson**
Established separate but equal/ segregation.
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Yellow Journalism
Use of exaggeration in newspapers to influence public opinion. (Sinking of the Maine)
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**Panama Canal**
Shortened sea route between Atlantic and Pacific.
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Monopoly/Trust
When one person or company controls a type of business by putting all other companies out of business. (BAD THING)

Often used corruption in the Senate (law makers)

EXAMPLE: Standard oil
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**Sherman Antitrust Act**
Broke up monopolies/trusts
Enforced by Teddy Roosevelt
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**Immigration**

**Ellis Island**

**Angel Island**

When a person moves to a new country to live there permanently

  • America needed immigrants as unskilled workers

  • Immigrants came in the US through Ellis Island on the East Coast

  • Immigrants took an eye exam, mental and medical exams

  • Angel Island was on the Pacific coast for Asian immigrants

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**Push Factor**
Negative things that make someone want to leave a country
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Pull factor
Positive things that make someone want to move to a country
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Industrial Revolution
Time when cities and factories grew (urbanization) because of the new invention that changed the way things were made and transported (Farms -> FACTORIES) PROBLEMS OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION-> tenements/meat production/child labor
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**Muckrakers**
Produced novels/articles and photographs that EXPOSED problems in society.
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**Child Labor**
When children worked in factories in terrible conditions to help support their families. Children were paid less.
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**Labor Movement**
When workers would strike against low wages and poor conditions/factory owners opposed this. Sparked by Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
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**Women’s Suffrage**
Women fighting for their right to vote
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**Imperialism**
When America has to expand to meet its needs at home. Taking over smaller territories.
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**Progressive Era**
Time period when laws were passed to fix the problems of society.
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**Transcontinental Railroad**
Expanded interstate business. Moved goods/people/ideas across the country.
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**Purchase of Alaska**
Seward from Russia
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**Sinking of USS Maine**
Led to S.A.W and the acquisition of P.R., Guam and Philippines (long term outcome)
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Power
Having control over another group, individual, or nation
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Conflict
An argument or disagreement between individuals, groups or nations
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Innovation
Technologies and ideas that make life easier.
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Human Interactions
Individuals or groups working together/communicating by choice or force Ex: trade/war/diplomacy
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Environmental Impact
The way in which we treat the area we live in. The result of our actions on where we live.
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Inequality
A group, individual, or nation not treating others fairly
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Social
People living and working together under a common set of laws
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Military
Armed forces of a nation.
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Economic
Use of money and resources.
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Political
Ideas and opinions that determine laws and policies for a country.
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Religious
Ideas and beliefs that shape people's ways of life and culture
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Scientific
Studying testing and experimenting to find ways to make life easier/ better.
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