SC US History EOC Review

Land grants that allowed for the building of the transcontinental railroads were

Pacific Railway Act and Homestead Act

Sells Land

Pacific Railway Act

The government gives you land as long as you utilize it

Homestead Act

How did the railroad affect the country?

Helped create a national market

Attempted to assimilate Native Americans into American society by dividing farming land and giving it to individual families

Dawes Severality Act

What are the factors of production?

Land

Labor

Capitol

Technology

Entrepreneurship

National bank provided capitol

Expansion to the west through land grant systems provided natural resources

Native American threat was removed

Supreme court upheld contracts and regulated interstate commerce

How the government encouraged economic growth

Who am I?

Dominated the oil industry using horizontal integration

John D. Rockefeller

Who am I?

Dominated the steel industry using vertical integration

Andrew Carnegie

Who am I?

Dominated the railroad industry

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Purchase of companies at all levels of production

Vertical Integration

Purchase of competing companies in same industry

Horizontal Integration

created to break up the monopolies that big businesses had formed. When you have unchallenged competition it leads to economic uncertainty and periodic depressions. Eventually the public will call for government regulation

Sherman Anti-trust Act

Survival of the fittest applied to businesses

Social Darwinism

Government hands off

Laissez-Faire

Wrote rags to riches stories

Horatio Alger

What are rags to riches stories?

Feel good stories

Improvements in standard living

New invention

Because farmers were not experiencing prosperity, they tried to organize politically for a change. Attempted to regulate how much the railroad could charge for transport.

The Granger Laws

Populists called for a national income tax cheaper money (what populists called "free silver") shorter workdays, single-term limits for presidents, immigration restrictions, and government control of railroads.

The populist Party

Most Americans looked down on labor unions during this era

Organized Labor

McKinley won the election, effectively killing free silver and the populist movement

The election of 1896

These were for skilled workers that were harder to replace

Craft Unions

Changes brought by industrialization and Urbanization

Overcrowded

No safety codes

Sickness

Long hours little pay

Dangerous conditions

Who exposed problems in society?

Muckrakers

Who is Upton Sinclair?

Wrote "The Jungle"

What amendment gave women the right to vote?

19th Amendment

Why did the progressive era develop?

City and workplace problems

Who am I?

Annexed Hawaii

DeLome Letter

Remember the maine

Spanish-American War

Teller Amendment

Treaty of paris

Platt amendment

William Mckinley

Who am I?

Bully Pulpit

Insular Cases

Columbian Revolution

Great white fleet

"Big Stick"

Theodore Roosevelt

Who am I?

Monroe Doctrine

Railroads in China

"Dollar Diplomacy"

William Howard Taft

Who am I?

Panama Canal Completed

Haiti

"Moral Diplomacy"

Woodrow Wilson

Reasons for imperialism

Expanding Capitalism

Growing nationalism

Expand Navy

Social Darwinism

Long term Causes of WW1?

Nationalism

Militarism

Alliances

Short term causes of WW1?

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

Reasons entered into WW1?

Inability to remain neutral

German unrestricted submarine warfare

Zimmerman Telegram

What's the "The boat and the note"

US must make the world safe for democracy

What is Victory Gardens?

Americans Plant their own small gardens at home

Why use Victory Gardens?

To save crops for the soldiers and war effort

What is War Bonds?

Invest money in war effort by buying bonds

What are bonds?

Paper which you cash in later

Why use War Bonds?

Allowed the government to finance the war.

Who?

Called them "Huns"

Stopped Teaching German

No German music or food

Why?

Germany was US enemy and US was afraid German immigrants were spies

German Immigrants

Who?

Espionage and Sedition Acts passed couldn't voice their opinions about war led to red scare

Why?

Didn't want anything to negatively affect the war effort

All American Citizens

What was the overall objective of the Fourteen Point Plan?

Wilson's plan for peace

Specific goals the Fourteen Point Plan wanted to use to build global stability

No secret treaties

Freedom of the seas

more free trade

reduction of arms

Did the Fourteen point plan become approved?

Parts of it, but not all

Outcomes of the Fourteen Point Plan

The US did not join the league of nations

What was the overall objective of the Treaty of Versailles?

End WW1

Specific goals of Treaty of Versailles

Self determination