Definitions
Acts
People
Dates
Amendments
100

MUCKRAKERS

They exposed the bad things and abuses of industrialization and urbanization


Exposed the tenements with his pictures in the book How the Other Half Lives

Shocked the public and led to new laws – playgrounds at schools and indoor bathrooms

100

DAWES ACT (1887)

Tried to “Americanize” the Native Americans by splitting up their tribes and giving them small areas of land called reservations

Forced Native American children into schools to learn only the American culture

100

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

  • During the segregated Jim Crow south, he wanted African Americans to achieve equality through job vocational training
  • Founded Tuskegee Institute- college for African American job training
100

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act 


 popular sovereignty vote on slavery, which led to violence “Bleeding Kansas”

100

The Right to Bear Arms

2nd Amendment

200

PROGRESSIVE ERA

The time period after industrialization when things improved because of REFORMS

Reforms- Improved working conditions, improved city conditions, less corruption, less power to big businesses

200

SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT AND THE CLAYTON ANTI-TRUST ACT

Broke up monopolies and trusts to help smaller businesses compete

Used against both JP Morgan’s railroad trust and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil monopoly

200

WEB DUBOIS

  • During the segregated Jim Crow south, he wanted African Americans to achieve equality through education and with his NAACP
  • NAACP would use lawsuits and the “educated elite” could protest for rights
200

1857 (court case)

DRED SCOTT V. SANDFORD

  • Slaves are property and blacks are not citizens
  • The government cannot take away property
  • Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional

 

200

The right to a speedy and public trial, the right to a jury, right to call witnesses, and the right to a lawyer.

6th Amendment

300

SOCIAL DARWINISM

  • “Survival of the Fittest” applied to business
  • Justifies the wealth of entrepreneurs and believes monopolies are good
  • Free Enterprise Capitalism: Prices should be set by “supply and demand”

Supports laissez-faire: Doesn’t want any laws regulating business or any government interference

300

CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT (1882

Nativist policies that limited Chinese immigration and Japanese immigration

300

UPTON SINCLAIR 

  • The book was about the tough life of working immigrants, but it exposed the unhealthy meat industry
  • Sinclair worked seven weeks undercover and found rats in the production of meat
  • The Jungle led to the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Created the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to inspect food and food production
300

1860

Election

LINCOLN’S ELECTION 

  • Lincoln said he was against the expansion of slavery, but slaves states could keep slavery
  • Southern states didn’t believe him – they thought he would take it away from the south
  • His election causes South Carolina to secede – leave the Union and start the Confederate States of America
300

13th Amendment

Freed the Slaves

400

BLACK CODES

  • Passed by Southern states immediately after the Civil War to try to keep the former slaves in conditions close to slavery.
  • Radical Republicans outlawed these codes.
400

INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT (1887)

The government regulated railroad prices to stop monopolies from abusing the farmers

Railroads had to ask permission from the government to raise shipping rates

Passed years before Teddy Roosevelt, but not really enforced until TR became president

400

PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON “KING ANDREW I”

  • Jacksonian Democracy – Era of the Common Man (property requirement for voting dropped)
  • Spoils System – hired his political party supporters
  • Force Bill against South Carolina
  • Killed National Bank with his veto
  • Indian Removal Act led to the Trail of Tears
400

(1896)

Another Court Case

  • A black man wanted to ride in the white section of a train
  • The Supreme Court against him and said that “Jim Crow” segregation was constitutional
  • “Separate, but equal”
400

16th Amendment

PROGRESSIVE INCOME TAX

  • Based on the ability to pay – the rich pay a higher percentage rate and the poor pay a lower percentage rate
500

WHISKY REBELLION

  • Pennsylvania farmers were against an excise tax on whisky
  • Washington sent troops to put down the rebellion
  • Showed the strength of the Constitution, because Shay’s rebellion years earlier showed the weakness of the AOC
500

MONROE DOCTRINE (1823)

  • Told Europe not to colonize any more of the Western Hemisphere
  • Said US would stay out of Europe
  • US wanted to control trade in Latin America
  • European interference in the US hemisphere was “dangerous to our peace and safety”
  • US expanded influence in the Western Hemisphere
500

John Locke

Believed in “Natural Rights” and the “Social Contract Theory”

500

1911


TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE 

500

17th Amendment

17th Amendment: Direct election of Senators – instead of each state legislature picking the two Senators they are now voted on by the people of the state


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