History test studying

13th amendment

abolished slavery

14th amendment

all US citizens granted equal rights under law

15th amendment

gave men of races the right to vote

17th amendment

people could directly vote U.S senators

18th amendment

prohibited alcohol manufacturing and sale

19th amendment

gave women right to vote

21st amendment

repealed 18th amendment

Recall

citizens can remove elected official from office before term ends

Referendum

citizens vote on law or policy instead of letting legislative decide

initiative

citizens propose new law or change and have a petition on it

who was the populist party and what was their purpose?

farmers - silver with gold for inflation and regulating railroads and banks from exploiting them

why did populist party want dollar backed by gold AND silver?

increase money supply

which is result of increasing money supply deflation or inflation?

inflation

how does inflation help farmers pay off crops more

crops sell for more so they can pay off their debts better

sharecropping

cycle of poverty for poor farmers especially african americans after civil war

what is muckraker and what was their main goal

a journalist that exposes corruption

Jacob Riis(How the other half lives)

exposed living conditions in the New York slums

Upton Sinclair(The Jungle)

exposed the unsanitary and unsafe conditions in the meatpacking industry

Ida Tarbell

exposed unfair practices of Standard Oil

Lincoln Steffens

exposed politicial corruption in city governments

Thomas Nast

cartoonist targeting Boss Twedt

Jim Crow laws

enforced segregation between blacks and whites - maintain restriction of blacks rights and control over them

disenfranchisment

taking away someones right to vote often through laws

3 methods used to keep african americans from voting

poll tax, literacy tests, grandfather clause

what was the plessy vs feguson court case?

made racial segregation legal and made the rule “separate but equal“ constitutional

sacco and vanzetti

anarchists and accused of murdering 2 men and that there was biases towards immigrants and those with different political beliefs

prohibition

no making or selling alcohol

flapper

a women that went against social norms in the 1920’s often wearing short skirts and enjoying new freedoms

scopes trial

debated if evolution could be taught in public schools and this was a clash between evolutionists and creationists

Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindburgh

first nonstop over across Atlantic Ocean

Nativism

belief that Native born residents are over the immigrants - sacco and vanzetti were charged biased because they were immigrants

suffrage

the right to vote

franchisement

granting the right to vote

feminism

fight for women’s rights and equality

alice paul

american suffragist and fought for federal costitutional amendment instead of state by state and the organization she led was National Womans Party(NWP)

why did anti-suffragists not want women the right to vote

the changes would be made by men, women’s role “was in the house”, and politics were too rough and they wouldn’t be able to understand it