SS midterm semester 2

Why did the USS Maine Sink?

Accidental explosion

Populist party goals

Nationalization of railroads, direct election of senators, free coinage of silver

Why did the US declare war on Spain

Maine explosion, yellow journalism

Steel

Mastered by Andrew Carnegie, but he stole his methods from Bessemer

Jim Crow laws

Voting taken away for African Americans by poll taxes, lynching, literary tests

Establishing monopolies

Vertical and horizontal integration

Why did reconstruction fail?

White supremacy, abandoned, lots of money to keep doing

Teller amendment

Autographed by Teller, said Cuba would be free after the war (didn’t actually happen)

Rough riders

Regiment in Cuba set up by Roosevelt

Immigration in gilded age

South and Eastern Europe (Poland, Italy, Russia, etc)

Muckraker

Journalist who exposed bad things in society (the jungle- written by Upton Sinclair, creates FDA)

William Howard Taft

Used land Roosevelt set aside to protect (Roosevelt don’t like him anymore), raised the protective tariff

Wilson’s win of the election of 1912

Republicans split their vote between 2 candidates, Wilson got all the democratic votes (only like 43%ish but enough to win)

Sherman anti-trust act

Wilson broke up monopolies, 1st one broken up was JP Morgan’s northern securities (railroad)

17th amendment

Direct vote for senators

Vertical integration

One person/company controls all aspects of production

Horizontal integration

Outs

Outsell other competitors

WWI alliances

Allies: France, GB, Russia, and later US

Central: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

Women

Women get the right to vote through the 19th amendment (was it cuz of WWI or Paul?)

Wilson’s win in the election of 1916

Huge anti-war campaign (but still went to war anyways silly goose)

Zimmerman telegram

Germany’s failed telegram to Mexico telling them to go to war with the US and Germany would help them get their land back (intercepted by GB)

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Germanys reaction to British blockade

Home front (WWI)

US becomes global power/leading economic power, mostly trades with GB, French, Russians

Start of WWI

Most Americans believed they could stay out of the war

Wilson propaganda

“War to end all wars”, moralistic slogans (doesn’t work as well as he hoped, starts draft)

Lusitania

Ship with 128 US passengers onboard, sunk by Germany (catalyst for US entering war)

America’s plan to pay for WWI

Global trade, war bonds

NWP vs NAWSA

National women’s party (younger generation of suffragists) vs National American women suffrage association (older generation)

Herbert Hoover

“Hooverize your home”- meatless Mondays and wheatless Wednesdays

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

Do not punish the Germans because a depression will start and a dictator will rise (also create League of Nations)

1919 Race Riots

26 riots break out after WWI, African Americans who fought in the war demand equal treatment but are met with violence (red summer)

Prohibition

The production, transportation, and consumption of alcohol become illegal (18th amendment), volsteaed act

Immigrant groups/cities

Immigrants moved to cities for more economic opportunities, used to drinking in homeland

Kellogg Brand Pact

War was illegal, outlawed war for offensive purposes

Jazz

Pioneered by African Americans in Harlem, Paris, New Orleans