RSJ 1st Semester Final Review

One outcome of the Compromise of 1850. Made it easier for slaveholders to capture runaway slaves. Led to increased opposition to slavery in the North.

Fugitive Slave Law

The idea that the U.S. was destined to expand across North America.

Manifest Destiny

Led to the creation of the House of Representatives (based on population) and the Senate (equal representation)

The Great Compromise or the Connecticut Compromise

Ended the Mexican American war and resulted in the acquisition of New Mexico and California.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Early example of propaganda. Led many Americans to see Great Britain as murderers prior to the American Revolution.

Paul Revere’s woodcut of the Boston Massacre

Group of laws that began in the 1880s and required the separation of Black and white Americans.

Jim Crow Laws

Positive outcomes for  Black Americans during the era of Congressional Reconstruction.

1. 14^th Amendment

2. 15^th Amendment

3. President Grant controlled the power of the Ku Klux Klan

4. Exoduster movement

5. Freedman’s Bureau

What was Ulysses S. Grant’s 1868 Presidential campaign slogan and what did it refer to?

“Let us have peace”; peace between the North and South, and Black and white Americans.

Most significant aspect of the 14th amendment for the formerly enslaved.

Gave them citizenship if they were born in the US or gave them equal rights.

His Field Order #15 during the Civil War created Sea Island Experiments - an effort to allow former slaves a transition to freedom. He later supported “extermination” or “utter annihilation” for Plains Indians.

General William Tecumseh Sherman

Belief that the proper place for a woman was in the home – raising the children and providing a cultural surrounding.

Cult of Domesticity

Successful photo journalist who challenged the accepted roles of women.

Frances Benjamin Johnston

Challenged roles of women by showing them as people are independent, confident, flirtatious, and in control.

“Gibson Girls”

Created by Charles Dana Gibson (or the play Sapho)

Idea that showed the connection between Victorian America and the age of imperialism by tying the idea of bringing piety and purity to the “inferior” people of the world

White Man’s Burden

Examples that prove that some Americans followed and accepted the strict expectations of Victorian America.

1. Carrie Nation

2. Arrest of Olga Nethersole

3. Comstock Law

4. Cult of Domesticity

5. Centennial Mirror

6. “Bicycle Face”

The application of an evolutionary theory to business.

Social Darwinism

Opposite of the beliefs of the Friends of the Indian. Assimilated to Zuni culture.

Frank Hamilton Cushing

Reasons that the Coal Strike of 1900 was successful.

1. Convinced members of different ethnic groups to join together (union became large)

2. Timing of strike (winter and Presidential election)

3. No Violence

This man considered himself a “Captain of Industry” for forming U.S. Steel and writing the “Gospel of Wealth” which suggested wealth should not be provided to the poor as direct handouts but in forms that would help them become better members of society.

Andrew Carnegie 

(his idea to help the poor was to build libraries – he built over 2500)

Two major improvements to urban cities that improved the physical health of city dwellers. Also state how the improvement improved health.

1. Trolleys and Subways – ended dependence on horses

2. Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal – clean water.

Where many immigrants went to make the transition to life in the United States easier.

Ethnic Community

Most immigrants who came through Ellis Island were from one of these two general areas of the world.

Southern or Eastern Europe

Cheap way for immigrants to get to the US. The drawback was that this way also spread disease.

Steerage section of a ship

Ways that local communities tried to assist immigrants

1. Settlement Houses

2. Political Machines

3. Public Education

Idea that immigrants didn’t just need to convert to Christianity to improve their lives, but governments also needed make improvements to the cities to help improve the health and life of immigrants.

Social Gospel

Three places the US acquired from the Spanish-American War.

Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands

Exaggerated news reporting that played a major part in the start of Spanish American War

Yellow Journalism

This American Protestant leader encouraged Americans to support imperialism due to “Anglo-Saxonism”.

Josiah Strong

John Hay called the Spanish-American War the “Splendid Little War”. Give three reasons he saw the war as “splendid” and/or “little”.

It was short, relatively few lives were lost, and America gained key lands

Called McKinley “weak, and catering to the rabble”. Least significant cause of the Spanish American War.

De Lome Letter

This naval leader would have supported the Panama Canal because it would mean the easy transport of the U.S. navy between two seas.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

__________ allow ships to rise up to ________, the longest section of the Panama Canal

Locks, Gatun Lake

The voyage of the U.S.S. Oregon during the ________________ convinced the U.S. of the immediate need for an interoceanic canal

Spanish-American War

This American War hero – who also believed the Filipinos were capable of self-government - was used by Pear’s Soap to tie Victorian values to imperialism.  

Admiral Dewey

Secretary of State William Seward was personally responsible for acquiring one of these two areas in 1867.  Name both areas – one secured a northern route while the other secured a more Southern route to the lucrative Asian trade.

Alaska (Aleutian Islands) and the Midway Islands

This short film may have broken moral standards by showing two people engaged in an attractive (or unattractive) activity.

The Kiss

Entertainment spot that challenged Victorian values

Coney Island

Women were discouraged from bicycling because some believed it would cause this condition.

Bicycle Face

Four most frequently held jobs by white women at the turn of the century.

Telephone operators, Factory workers, domestic work, teachers

This person WAS NOT at the Seneca Falls Convention, but voted in the election of 1872 and was arrested. Stated at her courtroom sentencing, “Your denial of my citizen's right to vote, is the denial of my right of consent as one of the governed” 

Susan B. Anthony

“Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” Who said this, in what country was he trying to “furnish a war”, and what is this an example of?

William Randolph Hearst, Cuba, and Yellow Journalism