UNIT 1: RECONSTRUCT & WSTWD EXPANSION
Said that a state could re-enter the Union if 10% of the population accepted emancipation and pledged loyalty to the U.S.
Lincoln’s 10% Plan
This meant the change from making things by hand to making goods by machines
Industrialization
A workplace where people work long hours in poor conditions for little pay
Sweatshop
When one country expands their power by taking over new territory
Imperialism
The building up of a country’s military and investment into developing new weapons and military technology - caused fear & distrust between countries
Militarism
Outlawed Slavery in the United States
13th Amendment
When people started moving into cities to get jobs
Urbanization
These were small apartments without windows, heat, or indoor bathrooms
Tenements
This was a ship that exploded and killed at least 260 troops
USS Maine
When countries promise to defend and help each other in time of war.
Alliances
These were Laws to restrict the freedoms of freedmen. Example: black men could not own guys, serve on a jury, or testify in court. Had to have employment papers at all times or could be jailed.
Black Codes
(Henry Ford)- a manufacturing process in which parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create a product. Faster and cheaper way to make things
Assembly Line
This group worked to improve conditions and protect child workers
Labor Unions
This is a nation whose independence is limited by the control of a more powerful country
Protectorate
This was a tyle of warfare where soldiers dig long systems of trenches (ditches) in order to take cover. Soldiers were live in these trenches and would rarely venture out of the trenches into “no man’s land.”
Trench warfare
These enforced segregation in public places in the South (separate bathrooms, train cars, drinking fountains, etc.)
Jim Crow Laws
This is when many people invest in a business by buying stock. Lots of money to buy machines and hire workers, stockholders make decisions
Corporation
This said that companies must have ingredients on the label (largely because of The Jungle)
Pure Food and Drug Act
The U.S. wanted natural resources (sugar, fruit, etc.), strategic location for a military base, and for trading. What country was this?
What is Hawaii
When neither side has the power to advance and push the other back.
Stalemate
This court cause said that segregation was legal (separate, but equal)
Plessy v. Ferguson
When one company controls the business, investors make money, less competition which is not good for customers because causes high prices
Monopoloy
These were journalists who exposed the evils of society
Muckrakers
Theodore Roosevelt said that the U.S. should back up their speech with actions and show that they had a superior military force. This coined slogan was:
Big Stick Policy
This term was the reason WWI Began: Germany was using its submarines to destroy enemy and neutral ships - 130 Americans were killed when a German U-boat bombed the Lusitania.
Unrestricted Warfare