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When was the Panama Canal completed?
1914
What president in 1877 tried to end patronage by firing officials who had been given jobs because of their support of the party?
Rutherford B. Hayes
What is imperialism?
Economic and political domination of a strong nation over weaker ones.
What is a tenement?
A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments
Who took over as president after William McKinley was assassinated?
Theodore Roosevelt
Who founded the American Protective Association?
Henry Bowers
What president ordered Matthew C. Perry to negotiate a trade with Japan in 1852?
Millard Fillmore
In the mid-1800s, China was suffering from severe unemployment, poverty, famine, and a civil war. A large wave of Asian immigration to the U.S. took place after this. What was this called?
Taiping Rebellion
What novel did Mark Twain and Charles Warner write in 1873?
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
What is nativism?
Hostility toward immigrants by native-born people
What colony in the mid-1800s generated nearly one-third of the world’s sugar?
Cuba
What is a political machine?
A highly organized political group, often led by a powerful boss or a small autocratic group, that exerts significant control over a government or area
What made getting to the Klondike River difficult? You just have to put the first part.
Physical geographic factors. The region was very remote. The most direct route was to book passage to the ports of Dyea or Skagway, then hike approximately 30 miles over the mountains before sailing the final 500 miles down the Yukon River to Dawson City, the nearest settlement to the gold fields.
In 1890, what did Mississippi require all people registering to vote to do? Just one.
Mississippi began requiring all citizens registering to vote to pay a poll tax of $2, a sum beyond the means of most poor African Americans or poor whites. Mississippi also instituted a literacy test, requiring voters to read and understand the state constitution.
What is the difference between inflation and deflation?
Inflation is the decline in the value of money. Deflation is the increase in the value of money.
What did Andrew Carnegie advocate for during the Gilded Age era?
Gospel of Wealth. This philosophy held that wealthy Americans should engage in philanthropy (providing money to support humanitarian or social goals).
What battleship did President McKinley send to Havana in 1898?
USS Maine
What policy of Roosevelt’s was crucial for the acquisition and construction of the Panama Canal?
"Big stick" policy.
What are Jim Crow laws?
States passed laws that rigidly enforced discrimination.
What is the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson?
Upheld the Louisiana law and the doctrine of “separate but equal” facilities for African Americans. The ruling established that legal basis for discrimination in the South for more than 50 years.
What did the Treaty of Kanagawa do for the U.S.?
Gave the U.S. trading rights at two Japanese ports
What group of people made up the Boxer Rebellion?
Members of the Chinese secret society known as the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists.
What is Social Darwinism?
This philosophy derived from Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection, asserting that humans have developed through competition and natural selection with only the strongest surviving.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
The part of the city where many music publishers and songwriters were located. This was in New York
What is the Open Door policy?
Would allow all countries to trade with China.
What was the goal of the Roosevelt Corollary?
To prevent European powers from using the debt problems of Latin America to justify intervening in the region.
What two bills did President Chester Arthur sign in 1882? What did these acts do? You just have to give one for each act.
Chinese Exclusion Act and the Immigration Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese immigration for 10 years, and prevented Chinese already in the U.S. from becoming citizens. The Immigration Act of 1882 imposed a head tax of 50 cents on each immigrant who arrived by ship at a U.S. port. The law also gave immigration officials the authority to reject immigrants who had a criminal record, were mentally disabled, or who were unable to take care of themselves “without becoming a public charge.”
What was Taft’s dollar diplomacy?
A policy of joining the business interests of a country with its diplomatic interests abroad.
What did the Platt Amendment do? Need two.
1) Cuba could not make any treaty with another nation that would weaken its independence. 2) Cuba had to allow the U.S. to buy or lease naval stations in Cuba. 3) Cuba’s debt had to be kept low to prevent foreign countries from landing troops to enforce payment. 4) The U.S. would have the right to intervene to protect Cuban independence and keep order.
In Herbert Spencer’s book called On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection what did Charles Darwin argue?
Plant and animal life had evolved over millions of years by a process he called natural selection