Period 6-7 dates and terms

Homestead act

1862 - free land out west if you improve it

What does Gilded age mean?

The period appears gold but if corrupt underneath (period 6)

Dawes act

1887 - assimilation, aimed at converting indians to farmers so they could make money. In AJ's reservation act indians were allowed to be themselves in there alloted land plots but now they are being converted to american ways of life.

period 6

1865 - 1900

transcontinental railroad

1863 - 1869 incouraged mass immigration out west and indian wars

time zones

made in 1883 because of the railroad

When was the transcontinental railroad complete?

1869

Indian apropriations act

1871 - ended indian tribes being soverign nations

Chicago fire

1871 - destroyed city causing a need for martial law (when military takes over instead of gov.)

Election of 1872

Ulysses S Grants (repub) second term

Civil rights act

1875 - to protect african americans in public - unenforced

Battle of little bighorn

1876 - Custers last stand, US embarrasingly defeated, montana

Great sioux war

1876 - US wanted control of the Black HIlls (Dakota, Montana, Wyoming) ended with US victory

Election of 1876

Rutherford B Hayes (repub) disputed election, both thought they won, ended with compramise of 1877

Compramise of 1877

An agreement that took federal troops out of the south and Hayes would be president

john d rockefeller

discovered rock oil, factory in cleveland, oil monopoly, standard oil company

Standard oil company

1870 - Rockefellers oil company that had a monopoly

Andrew Carnegie

US steel monopoly, Vertical integration, sold company to JP morgan in 1900, did a lot of charity work

Vertical integration

When a single company owns all the steps to make a product. ex. Swifts meat owned ice, ice cars, and railroads

carlisle indian school

1879 - boarding school where kids would go to learn how to be more like americans

1880 Election

james garfeild (repub) he got assasinated in 1881 Charles a Arthur became president

gospel of wealth

Carnegies ideal that its rich peoples duty to give away money to charity

A century of dishonor published

1881 - helen hunt jackson exposed US cruel treatment of american indians

tuskeegee institute

1881 by Booker T washington, an alabama school to teach black students agriculture and other practical skills

Booker T washington

Progressive activist who suppported segregation, He was invited to the white house for dinner and made the tuskeegee institure in 1882

WEB dubois

Black activist who opposed Booker T because he wanted segreagation gone. He founded the NAACP in 1909

How the other half lives

Jacob Riis 1890

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair 1905

Huckelberrry fin

1885 Mark twain, escaped slaves traveling the missisippi

populist party

1891 - southern, western, angry farmers, income tax, restricted immigration

progressive era

1890s - 1920s Mckinley, roosevelt, taft, wilson, harding, coolidge , hoover

jane addams

American social worker and activist who helped immigrants, founder of Hull house (1889, houses that helped integrate immigrants)

What people wanted to enter ww1?

trick question, nobody wanted to enter until after the zimmerman telegram and lusitania sinking

ww1 time period?

1914 - 1918, US entered in 1917

Why did the great migration thrive?

Because there were many industrial opportunities during the world wars.

What did the populist party form in response to?

1891 - the growth of corporate power in agriculture and the economy

The "temporary unequal distribution of wealth" that Carnegie refers to resulted most directly from the …

A. growth of cities in both size and number

B. efforts by workers to organize local and national unions

C. consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies

c. consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies

cross of gold speech

1896 - Bryan wanted currency to be made out of silver instead of gold so that it would increase money supply and help famers pay off debts. This resonated with the populist partys concerns about economic inequality.

knights of labor

biggest labor union formed in 1869

haymarket riot

1886 - labor related protest in chicago about the 8 hour movement

elecion of 1884

grover cleveland won

What does "progressive" mean?

1890s - 1920s wanting to better the US by using laws and the government to intervene, usually taking an activist stand

Progressive ammendments

16th - 1913 income tax 17th - 1913 direct election of senators 18th - 1919 prohibition 19th - 1920 womens suffrage

Yellow journalism?

1890s - Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers

teddy roosevelt

1900 - 1908 (2terms) expanded national parks and forests, FDA (1906), Roosevelt corallory (1904), Panama canal (1904) against corruption = trust buster, square deal

roosevelt corollary

1904 - basically said that the US would be the police of north america and protect latin america from europeans

federal reserve system

1913 - established economic stability by creating a central bank - created by the Federal Reserve Act

period 7

1890 - 1945

spanish american war

1898 (Splendid little war)- The US wanted to become a world power and have colonies, cuba was revolting against spain so we sent the USS maine to help them but when it blew up we declared war, we got other latin american territories and became a world power

Teller ammendment

1898 - said the US wouldnt annex cuba, justified our intervention

Platt ammendment

1903 - britney spears treatment for cuba

muckrakers

a progressive period term defining people who brought americas problems to the surface (jacob riis, ida b wells etc.)

Roosevelts Square Deal

control of corporations, consumer protection, conservation

Sherman anti trust act

1890 - made monopolies illegal

1908 election winner

taft (republican)

1912 and 1916 election winner

Woodrow wilson (democrat)

What slogan did WW use to win the election of 1916

"He kept us out of war" wilson would then enter ww1 the next year

Zimmerman telegram

1917 - Germany sent it to mexico to tell them they would get their lost territory back if they joined the triple alliance and fought against US

German military tactic during ww1 that cause US to join the war?

Submarine warfare - sinking the lusitania

Wilsons 14 points

1918 - democracy, free trade, LON

league of nations

1920 - like the UN but the US couldnt join it bc too many people were scared, failed to prevent ww2

Treaty of Versailles

1919 ended ww1 allied powers victory. War guilt went to germany making them mad.

Espionage act

1917 - no spying on the government

Sedition act

1918 - no statements against the government

Selective serivce act

1917 - the draft

Aftermath of ww1

booming economy bc of wartime exports, consumerism, "lost generation", immigrant repression, red scare

Why was the roaring twenties called the wealthy period?

because of consumerism and affordable cars, also cheap mass production

When did prohibition end and why?

1933 - 21st ammendment repealed the 18th, there was a lot of crime happening and the gov needed money from alchohol

1920 election winner

Harding (republican) had the ohio gang and didnt do much - died in 1923, calvin coolidge took over

Election of 1924 winner

Calvin Coolidge (conservative republican) cut taxes, Immigration act 1924, kellog briand pact

Immigration act

1924 set quotas and limits on immigrants

Kellog briand pact

1928 - signed by 62 nations outlawing war

1928 election winner

herbert hoover (progressive) tried to fix the great depression but failed. Smoot hawlley tariff act

Smoot-hawley tariff aact

1930 - raised tariffs and started a trade war with europe

1932 election winner

FDR (democrat) - 1932 - 45 died truman took over. New deal

FIrst new deal

1933 - relief, recovery, and reform

Second new deal

(1935) a new set of programs in the spring of 1935 including additional banking reforms, new tax laws, new relief programs

What helped famers in the 1930s

AAA - 1933, paid farmers to get rid of their crops because overproduction was causing prices to be down

Wagner act

1935 - unions were allowed to organize and strike

What made welfare?

Social security act of 1935

Pearl harbor?

1941 surprise attack cause US cut off trade with japan

Excecutive order 9066

1942 - japanese internment

Lend lease act

1941

WW2 time period

1939 - 1945 US joined 1941 after pearl harbor

WW1 time period

1914 - 1918 US joined in 1917 after Lusitania sinking

What officially ended ww2?

the paris peace treaty of 1947

When was the UN founded?

1945

Atlantic charter

1941 - Signed by FDR and Churchill saying we wouldn't gain territory after the war ended.