last history final

Bessemer process

First inexpensive industrial process for mass production of steel.

Edison’s incandescent lightbulb

light source

McCormick’s mechanical reaper

horse pulled machine to help cut grain

Sherman anti-trust act

U.S law to prevent monopolies

Andrew Carneige

steel industralist

John D. Rockefeller

oil industralist

J.P Morgan

banking industralist

Cornelius Vanderbilt

railroad industralist

Homestead Act of 1862

A law that granted free land to people who wanted to become citizens

Native American boarding school (Carlisle Indian Industrial School)

goal to assiliminate Indians into American culture

Dawes act

Divided tribal lands to individual plots in order to assimilate indians

Causes of American Imperialism

Economic factors, strategic/military considerations, cultural/ideological factors

Causes of Spanish-American War

USS Maine, Yellow journalism (Hearst and Pulitzer), Treaty of Paris results, territorial acquisitions

Political reforms

• Initiative, referendum, recall (citizens can vote on laws)

• Direct election of senators (legislatures power to choose senators)

• Women’s suffrage

Jane Addams

leader in women’s suffrage

Upton Sinclair

wrote “the jungle” which showed how the meatpacking industry was unsanitary conditions

Ida B. Wells

african American journalist who advocated for women's rights and racial injustice

W.E.B. Du Bois

First black American to get a PhD

Booker T. Washington

“Atlanta Compromise” speech, advocated for election and self reliance for African americans

Plessy v. Ferguson

Allowing for segregation to be enforced, “separate but equal”

World War I causes

• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• European alliance system

• Militarism, nationalism, and imperialism

Selective Service Act of 1917

authorized federal government to expand the military government

Pre-War policies

• Cash and Carry policy (Allowed USA to sell materials to countries in WW1, but only if they paid cash)

• Lend-Lease Act (authorized the US to help fight in WW1)

Great Depression caused by:

• Stock market crash “Black Tuesday”

• Overproduction of crops