Exam 3 - American History

Capital Goods

Any good that builds the economic good of the company

What was the number 1 capital good?

Steel

Andrew Carnegie

Makes a lot of money on steel mills

Gomper's Union Goals (3 things)

1) Focus on concrete, achievable gains

2) Organize by craft and occupation

3) Workplace, not politics, should be the battleground

Pullman Strike

Pullman decides to raise the rent on everyone's houses, so the workers go on strike.

Pullman Strike - Secondary Labor Boycott

The train workers hear about the strike and decide to boycott moving Pullman train cars

Thomas Nast

He comes up with the mascot for Democrats is a donkey and Republicans an elephant

Public Accommodation Segregation

Train cars

Plessy V. Ferguson

Seperate but Equal.

Williams v. Mississippi - validated systems designed to prevent voting, as long as race was not a factor

Suburbs

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Election of 1896

William McKinley wins

First Progressive President

Teddy Roosevelt

Trusts

Like-minded companies merge and together control 100% of that good, and can charge whatever they want

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair wrote about Chicago's meatpacking industry, and it caused the FDA to be created

Progressivism

Ease the suffering of the urban poor. Improve dangerous and unfair working conditions. Get rid of corruption in Government

T.R.'s new political party

Bull Moose Party

Muckrakers

Investigative journalists who are looking into shady business practices

1912 Election

Woodrow Wilson became President because the Republicans were split between Taft and Roosevelt

Influence of Sea Power Upon History - Keys to Imperial Power (5 things)

1) Control the Seas.

2) Regard oceans not as barriers but highways.

3) Active Merchant Marine.

4) Powerful Navy

5) Coaling Stations

Social Darwinism

Applied Darwin's evolutionary theory to people. Believed that American white men were on top

USS Maine

Go see what's going on with Cuba, but when it gets there, it explodes accidentally, but everyone thinks the Spanish blew it up

Panama Canal

America funds the Panama Revolution, and because of that, we get to build the Panama Canal

William Randolph Hearst

A newspaper writer whom the Cubans ask to help them with the war with the Spanish, he greatly exaggerates it

1916 Campaign Slogans

He has kept us out of war

American Expeditionary Force

First troops sent to join World War I

Votes for Women

During WWI, there were many Women's suffrage movements, and after the war, they were finally given the right to vote

The Treaty of Versailles - Article X

Collective Security Agreement

Automobiles

Number one tool to connect Americans

Teapot Dome

Albert Falls is the Secretary of the Interior and lets companies drill there for oil if they pay him directly

Welfare Capitalism (3 things)

1) Stock Plans

2) Health Insurance

3) Pensions

Charles Lindbergh

Most famous American because he flies solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean

Scopes Trial

Known as the Monkey trial

Stock on Margin

The bank gives you a loan without collateral to buy stocks

Dust Bowl

Giant dust clouds blow through communities and devastate them

Bonus Army

The veterans decided to march on the government and make camps there until they get their bonuses

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Gives low-interest loans to big businesses

FDR's pressing problems (3 things)

1) Agricultural Overproduction

2) Business Failures

3) Unemployment Relief

Huey Long

Presidential candidate who creates Share Your Wealth Society

New Deal Humanities Projects (8 things)

1) Home Owners Loan Corporation

2) FDIC

3) Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

4) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

5) Federal Art Project

6) Federal Music Project

7) Federal Writer's Project

8) Federal Theater Project

Legacies of the New Deal (5 things)

1) Enlarged the Federal Government

2) Government will intervene in the economy

3) Government will provide primary responsibility for people

4) Modern Welfare State

5) Poverty is an economic problem

1920's recording engineer (movie)

Elmer Raguse

Memphis Jug Band (movie)

Reflected the world of Memphis

Largest water project in the world 1913 (movie)

The Los Angeles Aqueduct

Details of Red Summer (movie)

Eugene Williams is murdered, and the man who murdered him isn't arrested, this starts the riots termed the Red Summer

Atlanta Exposition - Thoughts on political activism

Accepted segregation provided blacks had equal facilities

Atlanta Exposition - What must a race learn before prospering

There is value in manual labor as much as in education

Cross of Gold - Author

William Jennings Bryan

Cross of Gold - Results of destroyed farms

Grass will grow in the streets of every city

Fourteen Points - Kinds of alliances to avoid

Private alliances

Fourteen Points - America's demands of post WWI world (5 things)

1) Open Diplomacy

2) Freedom of Navigation

3) Removal of trade barriers

4) Self-determination

5) League of Nations

Rendezvous with Destiny - Our most dangerous foe

Fear

Rendezvous with Destiny - Governments obligations to citizens (3 things)

1) Protection of the family and the home

2) Establishment of a democracy of opportunity

3) Aid to those overtaken by disaster