SSH final review

Radical Republicans

wanted to punish the South after the Civil War

Andrew Johnson

Lincoln’s vice president, Southern Democrat, former slave owner who was impeached but found innocent

13th amendment

ends slavery

14th amendment

grants citizenship to all men

15th amendment

grants men right to vote

18th amendment

prohibits alcohol

19th amendment

women can vote

what happened after reconstruction?

military troops left and South was able to vote in Congress

how are voting rights of AA’s limited?

poll tax, literacy tests, KKK lynchings, grandfather clause

Sharecropping

renting farmland to blacks, unfair, similar to slavery

Plessy v Ferguson

separate but equal- segregation is legal

Jim Crow Law

separated blacks from whites

Industrial Revolution

hand made products to machine made products

Capitalism

privately owned businesses, businesses compete for money making lower prices

Supply and Demand

determines price of products

Trust/monopoly

one company is controlling an entire industry- less variation for consumers

Andrew Carnegie

monopoly for U.S. steel

Rockefeller

monopoly for Standard Oil

Transcontinental Railroad

railroad across US which transported natural resources more efficiently- destructed Natives way of life- created time zones

Assembly line

Henry Ford made this and it made making products easier and faster, lowered prices for consumers but was boring for workers because it was repetitive

Sherman-Anti Trust Law

Roosevelt broke up bad monopolies

Labor Unions

workers joined together to fight for better working conditions

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

event that happened killing many because of poor working conditions/ led to better conditions in work and factories

Push Factors

reasons that immigrants were pushed out of their country- war, famine, disease

Pull Factors

reasons to emigrate to US- freedom, jobs, religion

Old Immigrants

from West and north Europe

New Immigrants

from East and South Europe

Nativists

people against immigrants

Quota Laws

Laws limiting the amount of immigrants

Ellis Island

Where Europeans came to emigrate to US

Angel Island

Asians came here to emigrate to US

Statue of Liberty

NY Harbor, Emma Lazarus-poem

tenements

poor buildings that many immigrants lived in because of loss of $

sweatshops

where many immigrants went to wfor work, very poor working conditions

child labor

poor families had to make children work

Corruption

Boss Tweed stole from NYC, arrested

Thomas Nast

muckraker who exposed Tweed’s crimes

The Progressive Movement

improve reform and make progress

Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Act

government inspectors for food and drugs

Muckrakers

journalists who expose corruption in business

Upton Sinclair

wrote the jungle

jacob riis

how the other half lives

ida tarbell

wrote articles exposing Rockefellers standard oil

imperialism

one country taking over another country for economic gain

reasons for imperialism

economics, political, military

Yellow Journalism

newspapers exaggerate the harsh treatment of Cubans

Sinking of USS Maine

U.S. naval ship blows up in Cuba, Spanish blamed, war starts

Treaty of Paris/ lands gained

ends span-US war, gained Guam, Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico

Territory gained in Span-US war

guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico, cuba

panama canal

shortcut connecting Atlantic and Pacific ocean

militarism

building up a country’s army

alliances

nations agreed to defend each other if attacked

nationalism

pride in your country

immediate cause of WW1

assassination of archduke Ferdinand

why did US enter WW1?

sinking of Lusitania, zimmerman note

lusitania sinking

germany’s u boats sank british ship killing US citizens

zimmerman note

germany asked Mexico to attack US

where did American soldiers fight?

trenches

propaganda

posters that gained american support for war

liberty bonds

short term loans to pay for war

treaty of versailles

ending WW1, punished germany

wilsons 14 points

wilsons goals following WW1- LON

installment buying

allowed Americans to pay for products

flappers

independent women in 1920’s

jazz

new American music (Louis Armstrong)

harlem renaissance

increased AA’s culture

buying on margin

paying with credit instead of cash

black Tuesday

oct 29 1929- start of GD

hoovervilles

run down towns

dust bowl

drought affecting US forced Okies to move to california

FDR

first 4 term president - believed government had responsibility

fireside chats

FDR’s radio address

new deal

FDR’s plan to end great depression (3 R’s)

3 R’s

relief- money help, recovery- work, reform- change

social security

provided money for retired people

FDIC

ensures money in banks

appeasement

england and France let Hitler take over countries

FDR’s 4 freedoms

asked US to support countries

lend lease act

gave allies supplies and soldiers

pearl harbor in December 7th 1941

japan launches attack on US

Rosie the RIveter

symbol for working women

rationing

limit amount of goods

victory gardens

americans grew food

liberty bonds

short term loans for warnt

internment camps

Japanese Americans accused of spies so went to these places

D-Day

turning point -allied invasion of Nazi in WW2

Island hopping

plan to invade japan

holocaust

systematic murder of jews

nuremberg trials

nazi leaders found guilty

who was the cold war between?

democracy and communism

containment

US policy of containing spread of communism

truman doctrine

military aid to Greece and turkey

marshall plan

give 13 billion to weak Europe

korean war

us defended south Korea, communism was contained