Reconstruction
What was Abraham's plan for accepting the Southern states back into the union?
10 percent plan
Who are progressives?
reformers who sought to make american society better and safer. they beleieved in making a transparent government that would understand the needs of its people and make a better society for everyone.
What is economic imperialism and what is an example?
Why does the United States enter the war?
Germany attacked a merchant ship with many USA citizens. Also sent a message to Mexico about going to war with the USA and they would get their land back that they lost during the Mexican American war (aka zimmerman telegram).
Paratroopers definition
A soldier who jumps out of a plane and uses a parachute to land behind enemy lines
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
any state or local laws that enfoprced or legizlized segergation
What are muckrakers?
the activity, especially by newspapers and reporters, of trying to find out unpleasant information about people or organizations in order to make it public
What is racial imperialism and what is an example?
• when you take over a country because you think your race is better than theirs.
• An example of racial imperialism is when the United States took over the governing system in the Philippines and did not let govern themselves even after they said that they would free them after the Spanish American war.
How was life on the homefront? What are rations?
Life on the home front:
rations
Who: These limitations on food supply were known as “rations” and impacted all Americans.
Paratrooper mission on d-day
The main mission for everyone was to force the Nazis from the coast in Normandy. The troops coming off the boats face the challenge of getting on the beaches because they were the front line men getting shot at from the batteries. The spefic mission for the paratroopers was to land behind enemy lines and they would try to get rid of the people inside of the batteries to stop them from firing at the american/canadian/french troops.
What is the KKK and how did they reverse the Reconstruction progress?
- The KKK is a group of white terrorists (mostly made up of former confederate soldiers) that terrorized african americans and hated them. They would harm anyone who thought that they deserved the same rights as whites.
- They reversed the progress by keeping african americans from voting. The african americans were mostly republicans which gave the other government party a advantage to put their former politicans back into office.
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle - what is it?
It was a book that exposed the working conditions in meat packing factories.
What is political imperialism and what is an exmaple?
• when you expand to compete with another country
• An example of Political imperialism was that when the United States wanted to take the Philippines, Puerto Rica, Guam, and Cuba away from Spain.
New Deal programs (4 of them)
- Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, with an executive order on April 5, 1933. The CCC was part of his New Deal legislation, combating high unemployment during the Great Depression by putting hundreds of thousands of young men to work on environmental conservation projects.
- The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. In addition to several provisions for general welfare, the new Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.
- The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land.
- The Rural Electrification Act (REA) was a New Deal program created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to provide low-cost loans to farmers to create rural electrical cooperatives
difference between WWI and WWII (how problems in WWI get fixed)
In WWI, you could not go out in the battlefeild aka "no mans land" because you would most likely die. Paratroopers helped attack from now both sides by going over the trenches and enemy lines to attack. This was a stragety that was very helpful and even used on D-Day.
What is sharecropping?
The system of labor in which a landowner rents land to a tenant. In return the tenant shares a portion of the crop grown black with the landowner at the end of the season. Both African American and whites could be sharecroppers.
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle - what happens because of it?
Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle influenced the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. These laws are the basis for the FDA and USDA's current food industry regulations.
What is military imperalism and what is an example?
• a desire for military bases and refueling areas around the globe
• an example of military imperialism is when the United States made Hawaii a waystation for them to the Spanish Philippines. Another example of military imperialism is the Platt agreement. This gave the United States access to naval bases in Cuba.
What are some similarities/differences to WWII?
differnces:
- one was fought in trenches and the other had people who coud land behind enemy lines
- one ended with a treaty and the other the allies won
- one was caused by a assassination and the other out of pure anger and the desire to take over the world
- atiomic bombs - WWII
similarities:
- both fought agaisnt Germnay
- propaganda
- alliances
- imperialism: MAJOR militarisim and nationalism
- involved german boats to get them into war
- the U.S allied with Britain for both wars
Internment:
what was it, arguments for it
definition: an act or instance of interning, or confining a person or ship to prescribed limits during wartime
The United States imprisoned over 127,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II based on the fear that they would act as spies for the Japanese government.
- 15th amendement (Ulysses S. Grant)
- Black Codes (southern states)
- Abraham Lincoln Assination (John Wilkes Booth)
- 13th amendment (A. Lincoln)
- 14th amendement (Congress)
What big changes happened and who is resposnible because of this?
- Pure food and drug act - Upton Sinclair
- allowed women to vote (19th amendment) - Susan B. Anthony
- settlement houses - Jane Addams
What is yellow journalism? What is an importnat exmaple from the spanish american war?
Fake or dramatic version of a story to get people to buy your paper and to make people believed or think a certain way.
a. It helps cause the American Spanish war because the newspaper lied talking about how the Spanish blew up the USA ships.
b. Americans were mad and wanted a war so that’s what happened.
c. they later found out that it was an accident that the ships blew up.
What are big changes in society, and who are responsible for them?
women took on more jobs - men going to war
advances in military technology (machine guns) - Hiram Maxim
What was life like on the homefront?
The homefront was very similar to WWI where they had to ration food and both women and men took on more jobs.