dcush midterm

Term

Definition Option 1

Jamestown

First permanent English settlement founded in 1607.

Quakers

A religious group that believed in equality and pacifism.

Signing of the Declaration of Independence

Document signed July 4, 1776 declaring independence from Britain.

Supporters of the American Revolution

Patriots who wanted independence from Britain.

British taxation after the French and Indian War

Britain taxed colonies to pay war debt.

Articles of Confederation

The first U.S. government framework.

Shays’ Rebellion

A farmers’ revolt over debt and taxes.

Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists

Federalists wanted a strong central government.

Indian Removal Act

Law forcing Native Americans west.

Abolition

The movement to end slavery.

Manifest Destiny

The belief the U.S. should expand west.

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederacy.

South Carolina

First state to secede from the Union.

John Brown

Violent abolitionist.

Fort Sumter

Site of first Civil War shots.

Strengths of the Confederacy

Strong military leaders like Robert E. Lee.

Strengths of the Union

Larger population and industry.

Confederate invasion in the North

South attacked Northern territory.

Lincoln’s main goal at the beginning of the Civil War

To preserve the Union.

Lincoln assassination

Killed by John Wilkes Booth.

Freedmen’s Bureau

Government agency helping freed slaves.

Limitations on voting for African Americans after the Civil War

Poll taxes and literacy tests.

Goals of the KKK during Reconstruction

Restore white supremacy.

Bessemer Process

Method for producing cheap steel.

New immigrants vs. Old immigrants

Old immigrants came from Western Europe.

Angel Island

Immigration station for Asians.

Push factors vs. Pull factors

Push factors force people to leave.

Building materials for people living in the Great Plains

Sod houses were common.

Government policy towards American Indians after the Indian Wars

Forced assimilation policies.

Supporters of the Populist Party

Farmers and laborers.

The Jungle

Book exposing meatpacking conditions.

The year 1898 and its importance

Spanish-American War.

Goals of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Ban alcohol.

W.E.B. DuBois and racial equality

Demanded immediate equality.

Plessy v. Ferguson

Upheld segregation.

Causes of World War I

Militarism.

Fighting on the Western Front

Trench warfare.

US entering World War I

German submarine attacks.

The Great Migration

African Americans moved north.

Central Powers

Germany and allies.

Allied Powers

Britain, France, and later the U.S.

Treaty of Paris (1898)

Ended Spanish-American War.

Platt Amendment

Limited Cuban independence.

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Killed in 1914.

British blockade of Germany

Cut off supplies.

Convoy system

Ships traveled with naval escorts.

New weapons used during WWI

Poison gas.

American neutrality

U.S. avoided war at first.

MANIA

Militarism.