history 202 midterm

13th amendment

-abolishes slavery except as punishment

14th amendment

-citizenship for all born in the U.S.

-equal protection clause

15th amendment

-cannot deny vote based on race

-all men can vote

reconstruction act of 1867

-divides south into five military districts

-to be readmitted to the union states must grant all men the right to vote and ratify the 14th amendment

johnson’s impeachment

-misses by one vote (35-19)

-johnson finished term quietly

compromise of 1877

-deal between republicans and democrats allowing hayes to be president for one term as long as he removes federal troops and appoints democrats in the south

slaughter-house cases

-undercuts 14th amendment’s power to protect freedmen

-privileges or immunities clause applies only to rights of U.S. citizenship

homestead act

-law signed by lincoln

-grants settlers 160 acres of land

-after working on it for 5 years they could own it

-only non-confederates

dawes severalty act

-law dividing tribal lands

-giving indians small unprofitable plots for citizenship

-giving access land to greedy white people

-goal was to assimilate native americans into society

frederick jackson turner

-originator of “frontier thesis” stating american identity of individuality and self-reliance came from the frontier

knights of labor

-union organization for workers including unskilled, women, and minorities

haymarket affair

-workers assemble to protest against workplace hours

-bomb thrown into police and they shoot back

-hurt the knights of labor by tying them to violence and radicalism

american federation of labor

-exclusive union for skilled white men

homestead strike

-workers barricaded entrance in response to henry clay frick cutting wages

pullman strike

-result of panic of 1893

-wages cut; rent stays same

-put down by federal troops

eugene v. debs

-helped found iww and aru

-jailed for pullman strike and critizing wwi

-socialist presidental candidate 5 times

new immigration

-almost 25 million

-majority from eastern and southern europe

-more likely to be catholic, socialists, anarchists, and/or unskilled

pendleton act

-signed into law by chester arthur

-replacing spoils system with merit-based system for employment

open door policy

-drafted by secretary of state john hay

-wanted equal acces to chinese markets

omaha platform

-statement of populist agenda

-wanted stronger government to protect americans

crime of ‘73/coinage act of 1873

-puts U.S. on gold standard and demonetizes silver

william jennings bryan

-nebraska politician

-advocates free silver

-democratic candidate in 1896 and 1900 but loses to mckinley

the jungle

-written by upton sinclair

-about lithuanian family in slaughter-houses

-exposes atrocities

-supposed to be socialist recruitment

jane addams

-suffragist and reformer

-first american woman to recieve nobel peace prize

-co-founded hull house

triangle shiftwaist fire

-factory caught on fire with workers inside

-leads to dialogue about workplace safety, pay, and conditions

ida tarbell

-wrote the history of the standard oil company

-exposes rockefeller’s deals with railroad companies and buying out competition

national women’s party

-led by suffragist alice paul

-D.C. rally shaming democrats into supporting suffrage

-more radical than nawsa

national american woman suffrage association

-founded by susan b. anthony and carrie chapman catt

-less radical approach wins wilson’s support

-led to 19th amendment to be ratified

booker t. washington

-founded tuskegee institute - a college for freedmen

-autobiography up from slavery

w.e.b. du bois

-opposes submission

-co-founds naacp in 1909

john muir

-scottish american naturalist

-founded sierra club

-supports preservation of the environment

gifford pinchot

-first U.S. forest service head

-supports conservation

election of 1912

-wilson defeated taft and roosevelt

federal reserve system

-central bank in the U.S.

-regulates the banking system and money supply

lodge reservations

-14 reasons for the U.S. to not join the league of nations

welfare capitalism

-a blend of a capitalist economic system with social welfare policies