US history final

Homestead act

Signed by Lincoln, allowed any adult citizen to claim 160 acres of the raid government land in the west for a small filing fee

Bessemer process

The first historically significant industrial method for the mass production of steel from moten pig iron

Monopoly

A market structure, where a single company or entity is the exclusive supplier of a particular good or service possessing complete control over it supply and quality

Vertical integration

A business strategy where a company takes control of multiple stages of its supply chain such as manufacturing distribution or raw material production rather than relying on external suppliers

Laissez Faire

An economic philosophy, advocation, minimal or no government intervention

Jim Crow laws

State in local status in the US primarily in the south legalized racial segregation separate but equal

Segregation

The active separating or setting people or things apart based on characteristics like race class or religion

Prohibition (1920-1933)

Nationwide constitutional ban on the production sale and transportation of alcohol

19th amendment

Gave women the right to vote

Imperialism

Acquiring foreign territories or securing influence for economic markets, and strategic superiority

Open door policy

A US foreign policy initiative aimed at ensuring equal trading right in China for all f nations

Muckraker

Reformed journalist, photographers, and writers in the US during 1890 through 1920 they exposed corruption injustice and corporate wrongdoing during the progressive era

Communism

A totalitarian system opposing capitalism where a single party controls economic distribution often resulting in restricted freedoms, historically represented by the Soviet Union in China

Capitalism

Economic system where private individuals or businesses rather than the government own, and businesses means of production to make profit

Assembly line

Manufacturing process where an unfinished product move sequence through workstation

Flapper

A rebellious fashion for young woman from the 1920s

Bootlegger

A person who illegally makes transports or sell illicit goods

Black Tuesday

October 29, 1929 the day the stock market collapse lead to the Great Depression

Dust Bowl

A drought stricken region of the American Great Plains and the devastating period of severe death storms during the 1930s

New deal

Relief, recovery, and reform FDR program

Totalitarian

Qualities of political system in which the government exercise exercises complete control over its citizens lives

Appeasement

Giving into aggressive demand to prevent war

Holocaust

1941 through 1945 persecution began in 1933 killed 2/3 of Europe. Jewish population means of unique period of genocide were state power was used to eliminate an entire population based on ideology.

rationing

Limiting how much of certain good people could buy supplies could last during the war

Cold War

They prolonged geopolitical rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union

Cuban missile crisis

A terrifying 13 day standoff in October 1962 it was the closest the world ever came to a full scale nuclear war

Berlin airlift

A massive allied operation that supplied food fuel and vital necessities to West Berlin by air

De facto segregation

Segregation that exists through customs or practice

Freedom rides

Civil rights activist who wrote interstate buses into the segregated American South in 1961

Civil rights act of 1964

Band discrimination in public accommodation, fair treatment, and employment

Voting rights act of 1965

Protected African-Americans voting rights

Black kettle

Cheyenne chief who tried to make peace with settlers

Andrew Carnagie

Steel businessman and philanthropist

John D. Rockefeller.

Founder of standard oil

James A. Garfield.

US president supported civil rights wanted to reform the government by ending the spoil system

W. E. B. Du Bois

African-American leader and cofounder of the NAACP

Susan B. Anthony.

Leader and women suffrage movement

Upton Sinclair

Wrote the jungle, exposing meat packing conditions

Woodrow Wilson

President during World War I helped create the league of nations, introduced reform like the federal reserve system and lower terrifs

Henry Ford

Created the model T and assembly line production

Theodore Roosevelt

Progressive president known for trust, busting in conservation

Calvin Coolidge

President during the roaring 20s

Queen lilliukalni

Last win Hawaii before US annexation

Louis Armstrong

Famous jazz, musician, and trumpet player

Charles Linbergh

First person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean

Al Capone

Famous Chicago gangster during prohibition

Amelia Earhart

Famous female pilot first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

Herbert Hoover

President when the Great Depression began believed in independence

FDR

Let the US during the Great Depression and most of World War II created the new deal

Joseph Stalin

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II and Cold War beginnings

Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany, who started World War II and led the holocaust

Winston Churchill

British leader during World War II

Dwight D Eisenhower

World War II general and later US president

Douglas MacArthur

Major US general in World War II and Korea

Joseph McCarthy

Senator known for accusing people of communist during the red scare

Rosie, the Riviter

Symbol representing women working factory jobs during World War ll

John F. Kennedy

President during the Cuban missile crisis promoted the space program

Lyndon B Johnson

Past the civil rights and voting right act

Rosa Park

Refused to give up her bus seat, helping spark the Montgomery bus boycott

Martin Luther King Jr.

Led the civil rights movement using nonviolent protest

What items and problems they led to the eventual end of the cattle drives

Barbed wire, fencing, railroads, bad weather and over grazing and cattle drives

Name a few of working conditions based by many workers during the late 1800s how have they changed?

Factory workers often had long hours low pay unsafe, conditions, and child labor today Workers have labor laws, safe for workplace and shorter hours

What is the spoil system and which president started it? What year?

The spoil system is giving government jobs to supporters. Andrew Jackson started it in 1829.

List some of the disadvantages of living in a tenament or slum

Tournament/slums were overcrowded, dirty, unsafe pad, poor sanitation disease, and little fresh water and air

How did the United States gain control of the Panama Canal how does the canal work?

The US supported Panama independence from Colombia and gain control through a treaty the canal used locks to raise and lower ship between oceans

When did Kansas as well as the United States as a whole legislation permitting women to vote

Kansas women got full voting rights in 1912. The US gave women their right to vote in 1920 with the 19th amendment.

Why were the 20s in the United States refer to as the roaring 20s what events or people are significant during this era

The roaring 20s were a time of economic growth, jazz music, new inventions prohibition, and changing lifestyles important people and events are Al Capone, flappers, jazz and radios

What were the major events that led to the Great Depression?

The Great Depression started with Doc market crash in 1929

What was the great depression and how did Franklin D Roosevelt attempt to bring American out of the depression?

The great depression was a time of severe unemployment and poverty FDR tried to help with the new deal program job and financial reforms

How did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affect America’s Pacific fleet?

The attack on Pearl Harbor, damaged or destroyed many US battleships and killed many soldiers and sailors

Who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb? What city were the bombs dropped on?

Has Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb? The bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

what were hardship did African-American space in the United States historically and how did the African-Americans work towards advancement of their own civil rights in the 1960s?

African-American space, segregation, discrimination, violence, and unfair laws in the 1960s they worked for civil rights through protest, market, boycott and court cases

What did American citizens at home due to aid the soldiers during World War II?

American held by rating food, gas, buying war, bonds, recycling, scrap, metal, and working in factories

What method of protestant Martin Luther King Jr. preach?

MLK preaching nonviolent protest and civil disobedience

How did Brown versus Board of Education Topeka change the American lands

Brown versus Board of Education ended illegal school segregation and rolled separate, but equal was unconstitutional

Why did Martin Luther King Jr. use nonviolence civil disobedience to encourage change during the civil rights movement

MLK use nonviolent civil disobedience because you believe people protest show the injustice and encourage equality and change