Unit 2 US history

1. Know the Farmers’ Alliance and its objectives.=

Made up of united farmers and industrial workers, the main issue was that the government did not pay mind to the farmers and had a horrible banking system making crop prices plummet, inflated RXR prices,debt, and deflationary currency.

2. How did the Farmer’s Alliance help farmers economically?=

It helped create a better system for farmers which was easier for them to get sales by selling bulk products with multiple farmers.

3. Explain how and why the People’s Party was formed.=

It was formed by and from the farmers alliance because they believed money and banking systems were only an advantage to few.

4. Explain the platform of the People’s party.=

They wanted low credit rates,subsidize crops until prices rose, land reform(RXR), free silver movement. It also started to form another political view.

5. Name issues facing workers living in the company town (Pullman Illinois)

.=Everything was being controlled in a company town which made it hard to leave because they used company currency. They would also cut wages a lot and have high rent.

6. Why was the American Railway Union formed and who led it?

=Eugene Debs led the ARU, it was an industrialized union and formed because they wanted to overcome the weakness of fragmented unions, which let railroads defeat isolated strikes.

7. What was Coxey’s Army and what did they want?=

It was a group of unemployed workers that took a march to Washington DC to speak out against congress, following the panic of 1893.

8. How did the media respond to Coxey’s march?=

It became a media sensation called the petition in boots.

9. What was the platform William McKinley and William J. Bryan used in the 1896 election?=

They both believed in the national monetary system while Mckinley was a republican(gold standard) while Bryan was a democrat(free silver).

10. What impact did the Populist Party have on the 1896 election?=

The populist party impacted Bryan because they agreed with him, they then entered their own representative tom watson.

11. Why was America late to the Imperialism Race?=

Because they were looking more towards security(navel bases, etc) then settlements and colonization.

12. Know the Monroe Doctrine.=

Stating that European countries could no longer colonize or interfere with sovereign nations in the Americas and in return the U.S. would stay neutral in European affairs and wars.

13. Know Yellow Journalism and how it played out during the Spanish American War.=t.

Yellow journalism was misleading and took information and ran with it. When covering the war in newspapers it would twist the truth making the war harder to fight

14. What impact did the sinking of the Maine have on the American population?

=The mysterious sinking provoked a war with Spain because of all the casualties.

15. Know the territories that Spain controlled before the Spanish America war started.=

Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines.

16. What did the United States hope to secure by starting a war with Spain?=

They hoped to secure independence for Cuba.

17. Know the 1898 Treaty of Paris and what territories did the United States gained.=

The treaty that brought peace between Spain and America ending the war, America gained Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

18. Know the Platt amendment.=.

Asserting U.S. dominance, it established the relationship between Cuba and the U.S.but also banned Cuba from signing any treaties that could possibly lead to independence

19. Know the candidates of the election of 1900 and what they supported (platform).=

Social darwinism and social gospel, gospel was bringing the christian aspect into politics and Darwinism is the belief of survival of the fittest and is very racist.

20. Know the premise of the progressive movement.

=The rise in jobs including law, med,teaching, religion, business, and more.rise of young education for young women and men.

21. Know the muckrakers and how they kick started the Progressive movement.=

Journalists and writers needed to take dramatic action to expose corruption, exploitation,etc. Spread public awareness of the situations that formed public outrage and it unraveled from there.

22. Know the basis of Eugenics in America.=

Is the belief that society could perfect human beings and eliminate social ills through genetics(natural selection)

23. Know Fredrick W. Taylor and his principles.=.

Wrote a book and speeches about how companies should be correctly managed, showing they should know every aspect of the jobs below them to be fit managers

24. Know the pressing issues facing President Roosevelt in 1901.

=How he came to presidency because of the assasination of Mckinley, the power he held and more.

25. How did Roosevelt handle trusts and why?=

Good vs bad trust??

26. Know the Hepburn Act of 1906 and why it was effective.=

Gave interstate commerce commission the power to examine records of private businesses to be set aside rates. It was so effective because it gave the ICC actual rates, etc.

27. Understand the rise of the Japanese Empire and why it was a threat to American interest.=

Quikly became a full scale empire

28. How did Upton Sinclair change political & social policy?

changed by exposing the press and spreading awareness for FDA

29. Know the premise of the White Man’s Burden & how we became the world’s policemen.

30. Know the difference between Taft’s presidency and Roosevelt’s.

31. Know the candidates and parties of the election of 1912.=

Wilson-democrat, Roosevelt-progressive, and Taft-republican were the candidates.Wilson ended up winning.

32. Know the Bull moose party.=.

It was the progressive party that believed in ending child labor, woman suffrage, and more

33. Know President Wilson’s New Freedom.=

To break up monopolies, tariff reduction, and banking reform.

34. How did Wilson respond to the outbreak of WWI?=

He told the U.S. that he would keep them out of war and started the neutrality project.

35. Know the type of propaganda the United States used to justify the entry into WWI.

believed the other countries needed there stablitly and military help

36. How did progressives view the war in Europe?=r,

They were split over the wa

37. Know the impact of Great Britain’s blockade of Germany.=

Caused Germany to send U boats(submarines) for total warfare no matter who.they also stopped all the trade action with Germany making them have little income.

38. Explain how Germany used its U boats in WWI.

=Used it as total warfare and was the one of reasons the U.S joined the war.

39. Know the Zimmerman telegram and its impact.=

Was a letter to Mexico stating Germany will become allies with Mexico to defeat the U.S. but was intercepted by Britain and shown to the U.S and was the reason they are in the war

40. How did America support the British war effort?=

The sent 2 mil $ aid to Britain and upped the trade with Britain by 400% because of the blockade

41. In the election of 1916 Wilson promised what to the American people.

.=He promised peace and that the war would not affect them

42. Know the conditions of trench warfare.=

Having to spend years in the trenches during the war causing trench foot,diseases and more

43. Why did the WWI offensive stall in 1914?

they stalled because they didn’t have enough guns and ammunition

44. Know Shell Shock and its impact on soldiers.

=PTSD, impacted soldiers mentally and made them even commit self harm to be sent out of the war, this came from air raids/bombings.

45. What was the purpose of the Committee on Public Information?

=Government sponsored entity whose purpose was to publicize the war.

46. How did Wilson react to Americans who opposed the war?=

The Sedition Act forbade the use of disloyal or other language about the U.S or armed forces.

47. Why were politicians content on dismantling Socialism?

They believed it restricted economic growth, and individual liberties

48. What was the purpose of the League of Nations?

To create peace and be able to keep things like WW1 To happen again

49. How did the Treaty of Versailles hurt Germany?

=Made Germany pay for all consequences and put all the blame on them

50. What were Wilson’s 14 points and who supported them?=

They were to help just and lasting peace , and almost everyone supported them, allies, germany, europeans, and more.

51. Know conditions in the South for African Americans.=

They lived in poverty, crime, and were paid horribly and mistreated.

52. Know the Great Migration.=

Blacked moved from the rural south to the north for a better life

53. Know conditions in the North for newly arrived African Americans

.=Better pay but limited jobs, overcrowding, segregation, violence outbreaks, and more.