Semester 1 Reveiw

U.S. gov’t offers free land to anyone who will farm it for 5 years

Homestead Act

He harnessed electricity and invented the lilght bulb

Thomas Edison

Native Americans give up their beliefs and way of life and are forced to live like the white man

Assimilation

Used a steam engine to extract oil from the ground

Edward L. Drake

No gov’t regulations or restrictions, Means “Allow to do”

Laissez-Faire

Complete control over an industry’s production, wages, quality, and prices changed

Monopoly

Gave the Native Americans land around the Black Hills and showed that their land was shrinking

Ft. Laramie Treaty 1868

Gov’t grants loans and gives tracks of land to the Railroads to build the railroad across the country

Pacific Railroad Act

Invented the telephone by accident

Alexander G. Bell

Used strikes as a major tactic and helped raise wages

Amer. Federation of Labor

English speaking, Caucasion, and protestant

Native Born

Most Chinese and Japanese came to this island outside of San Fransisco

Angel Island

Mixture of people of different cultures/races who blended together

Melting Pot

Overt Favoritism toward Native born Americans

Nativism

Opposed changes in the spoils system

Stalwart

Assassinated James Garfield

Charles Guiteau

Wanted a Civil Service System

Reformers

Annual tax that had to be paid to gain accesses to the voting booth

Poll Tax

System of separating the races

Segregation

Giving of government jobs to people who had helped a canidiate get elected

Patronage

Return control of the government to the people. restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life

Progressivism

She advocated for improving the lives of woman and children

Florence Kelley

This prohibited child labor and limited woen’s working hours

Illinois Factory Act

Banning of alcoholic beverages

Prohibition

This group promoted the banning of aloholic beverages

Womans Christain Temperance Union

Government ownership of buisness and property. Also the equal distribution of wealth’s

Socialism

This type of efficient labor led to an increase in production and was introduced by Ford Motors

Assembly Line

Local city councils were formed due to

Natural disasters

Popular elections of US Senators was the ______Amendment

17th

Known as the Rough Rider President

Teddy Roosevelt

This Rough Rider became president when _____________ was assassinated

McKinley

Name of various progressive reforms to help the common man during the Rough Rider Presidency

Square Deal

The 1902 Coal Strike happened in ____________, this state was the leading Coal producer for the US

Pennslyvania

________ was written by ______________ and illustrated the meat-packing horrors

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

This law dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers

Meat Inspection Act

Called for the truth in labeling on products

Pure Food and Drug Act

The first National Park

Yellowstone

Cuba was a colony for…..

Spain

Cuba’s main market was…..

Sugar

Journalist from new York who organized a Cuban revolution

Jose Marti

Cuban Rebels used guerilla tactics to destroy…

American Sugar Plantations

Spaish General who moved rural Cubans into Concentration Camps

General Weyler

Reporting that exaggerates the news to gain more readers

Yellow Journalism

Spanish minister to US who writes a letter to his government explaining that the American government is weak

Enrique Dupoy Delome

The __________ was ordered to protect American interests/people in Cuba

USS Maine

The Spanish were defeated in one day at _______ Bay in the Philippines

Manila

Roosevelt and the Rough Riders were given credit by yellow journalism for defeating the Spanish at __________ Hill but in actuality did not play a big role in this battle

San Juan

Three Parts of the Treaty of Paris

1. US gets Guam, Puerto Rico

2. Cuba is independent

3. US pays Spain $20 mil for The Philllipines

This body monitored monopolies in the buisiness sector

Federal Trade Comission

Party wanted to establish national child labor laws and an eight hour work day for woman

Bull Moose

Woodrow Wilson under New Freedom created ___________ This is responsible for setting interest rates and watching banks

Federal Reserve System

Policy of extending a nation’s authority over other countries by economic, poliical, or military means

Imperialism

Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the ______________ throne

Austria-Hugary

Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian teenage boy named

Gavrilo Princip

Belief that ones own interests and unity should be placed ahead of global coorperation

Nationalism

The three main counries of the Triple Entente were

France, Great Britain, and Russia

Considered Europe’s hot spot prior to WW1. Russia wanted to gain an outlet to the Mediterranean Sea here

Balkan Penninsula

Name of the area between the trenches was called

No Mans Land

British Liner that was sunk by a German U-Boat killing 128 Americans

Lusitania

These ppl. felt the war was a way for imperial powers to control the raw materials and markets in certain parts of the world

Socialists

Submarines were also known as

U-Boats

The ______ Amendment prohibited the manufacturing, distributing, and selling of liquor

18th

This man stated that man evolved from evolution of the species

Charles Darwin

Do not belive in any form of gov.

Anarchist

Was appointed the head of the FBI

J. Edgar Hoover

Attorny General who started the Anti-radical division in the Justice Department due to the Red Scare

A. Mitchell Palmer

He made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St, Louis

Charles Lindbergh

Italian immigrants who were victims of the Red Scare

Sacco and Vanzetti

Leading Prosecutor for the Scopes Trial

Wiliam Jennings Bryan

The belief of the literal translation of the Bible

Fundamentalism

An emancipated woman in the 1920s image of a rebellious youth

Flapper

Illegal buying and selling of goods

Black Market

Crime Lord who was arrested for tax evasion and made his fortune bootlegging alcohol

Al Capone

Appoinnted by the ACLU to defende Scopes

Clarence Darrow

Secretary of the Interior who was responsible for the TeaPot Dome Scandal

Albert B. Fall

Illgeal selling/smuggling of alcohol

Bootlegging

Opposition to political and econoic entanglements w/other countries

Isolationist

The maximum number of people who could enter the US from a foreign country was determined by the….

Quota System

Expressed the African American Culture with pride through literacy and artistic works

Harlem Renaissance

Illegal nightclubs were often called

Speakeasies