Progressive era
The movement for women getting the right to vote.
What years was reconstruction?
1865-1877
What are black codes?
Laws made in Southern states to restrict freedmen’s rights after the Civil War
13th Amendment ( what did it do?)
Officially ends slavery throughout the country.
Who beat Taft and Roosevelt for the Presidency?
Woodrow Wilson.
Square Deal?
Fair and equal treatment for all, promised by Teddy Roosevelt. Government and businesses should work for the PEOPLE not themselves.
What was a freedmen
An emancipated slave
Chinese Exclusion Act ( what did it do?)
Banned Chinese laborers from coming to the United States.
15th Amendment?
Vertical Integration
When a company controls all steps of a production process ( ex. Carnegie Steel & all steps)
What was the Open Door Policy and how did it impact China?
Secretary of state William Hay wanted all foreign nations in China to trade freely. Impacted Made China upset because they were getting controlled and taken advantage of.
Emancipation Proclamation
A document declaring that slaves are free in the south ( not the border states)
What was the assembly line?
Dividing the production process into different steps and everyone does a different step.
19th Amendment
Gave all women the right to vote
Horizontal Integration
What was the conservation movement?
The movement of preserving nature and land.
What were some things that prevented black men from voting?
Grandfather clauses, literacy tests, poll tax, etc.
Whose nickname was a “Trust Buster”?
Theodore Roosevelt.
14th Amendment
Gave everyone who was born in the U.S. citizenship.
How did Yellow Journalism contribute to public sentiment and the U.S. decision to go to war with Spain?
They were constantly publishing bad things about Spain so after the U.S.S. Maine sunk the public demanded the government took action to go to war.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
Martial artists in China, fed up with foreigners in their cities, led a rebellion against them and trapped them in Beijing for nearly 2 months. Foreign troops ended the battle.
What was the primary goal during the Reconstruction period in the United States?
Rebuild the South after the Civil War and to integrate formerly enslaved people into society as free citizens with equal rights.
What is the Monroe Doctrine ( what did it say)
The U.S. is in charge of the western hemisphere.
17th Amendment
Made it so people could vote directly for their U.S. senators instead of having state legislatures choose them.
How did the construction of the Panama Canal reflect the U.S. desire for greater global influence?
It was going to allow us to have more power ( we would have a stronger military, easily move to where the world needed us).