The Civil WAR
General Winfield Scott proposed a plan to cut off Southern Ports with a naval blockade and slowly strangle the South into Submission.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Ended Slavery in the United States making it illegal to own another human being.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Promised settlers 160 acres for free if they farmed it for five years.
What is The Homestead Act?
The government should interfere in the free market as little as possible.
What is Laissez-faire?
First President of the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Political Machines controlled strong leaders known as Party Boss's and did favors for citizens in exchange for their __________
What is Votes?
The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were passed by Congress after President Roosevelt read_________ by ________
What is THE JUNGLE by UPTON SINCLAIR?
American naval vessel that was sunk by the Spanish in Havana Harbor Cuba to start the Spanish American War.
What is USS Maine?
The two alliances to start WWI.
What is the Central Powers, (Germany and Austria-Hungary, joined by Ottoman Turkey) and Allied Powers, (Britain, France, Russia and later Italy). ?
The reason Gettysburg is known as the turning point of the Civil War.
What is, the last time the South entered Northern territory?
Those that opposed Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson's plans for Reconstruction.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
Helped bring an end to the "Long Drive".
What is Barbed Wire?
Reduced the cost of making steel by more than 80% while making it stronger and more durable at the same time.
What is Bessemer Process?
Yellow Dog Contracts.
Blacklisting
Lockouts
Strike breakers
What is tactics of Management to resist labor?
One big difference between the "Old Immigrants" and "New Immigrants" is that the New Immigrants ______________
What is Spoke very little English?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
A technique for selling more newspapers by sensationalizing and distorting the facts in stories written.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Because of Germany's use of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, U.S. merchant ships would be escorted across the Atlantic escorted by Naval battleships in groups called ______________.
What are Convoys?
John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fredrick Douglas....
Who are Abolitionist?
Federal troops were removed from Southern territories.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Crazy Horse surrounds General Custer and his 700 of his men killing almost 300 of them and also General Custer.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Thomas Edison invented ________
George Pullman invented _____
Gustavus Swift invented _______
What is Light Bulb?
What is Sleeping Car?
What is the Refrigerated Car?
Only hired union workers
What is a Closed Shop?
Permitted the "free migration" of Chinese immigrants to America.
What is The Treaty of Burlingame?
As a result of this disaster, new state laws providing safety and fire codes in factories
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
Spanish Ambassador wrote that the President of the United States was ,"weak" indicating that the Spanish were not being truthful with Cuba of the U.S.
What is The De Lome Letter?
The German Foreign Minister promised to return New Mexico, Arizona and Texas to Mexico if they would would attack the US.
What is the Zimmerman Note, (Telegram).
Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. Also, slavery prohibited in any land from the Louisiana Purchase north of 36, 30'N.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Elected as a Senator from Mississippi in 1870, he became the first African American to sit in Congress.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
Threatened the survival of Indian culture.
Often the land was arid and infertile.
Would lead to the sell-off of Indian reservation land.
Prohibited Indians from selling the land given to them.
What is the Dawes Act?
He expressed his views of Philanthropy in his book, "The Gospel of Wealth".
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Impersonal working conditions
Long working hours
Low wages
Lack of opportunity for advancement
Child Labor
What is Problems Faced by Industrial Workers?
The belief that native-born Americans were superior to others and that immigrants and their diverse cultural influences were undesirable.
What is Nativism?
Ida Tarbell revealed how Rockefeller's success was largely base on ruthless business practices.
What is, "The History of Standard Oil"?
He wrote, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History?
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
One sided information designed to persuade listeners.
HINT: During WWI, This was passed onto the public via, posters, political cartoons and The Committee of Public Information.
What is Propaganda?
Preservation of the Union
Abolition of Slavery
Tremendous loss of property and life
Power of the federal government strengthened
What is Consequences of the Civil War?
If a sharecropper owed any money to the landlord for a loan or use of his tools, he or she could not leave until the debt was paid off.
What is Debt Peonage?
Farmers faced an obstacle of not having wood, stone or clay to build their homes. They resolved this problem by
What is building Sod Houses?
The Interstate Commerce Act will be passed by Congress in response to the Supreme Court ruling _________.
What is Wabash v. Illinois?
When workers act together in negotiating new contracts for higher wages and better working conditions.
What is Collective Bargaining?
Agricultural overproduction
International competition
Scarcity of money.
What is why food prices fell in the late 19th century.
Acts as a, "Bank to banks". Also has the power to expand or contract the money supply by setting a Federal Reserve, setting interest rates, selling U.S. bonds on the open market.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Gave the U.S. right to intervene in Cuban affairs at any time by stating that Cuba would place naval bases at the disposal of the U.S. and not borrow any amounts from foreign countries that they could not repay.
What is the Platt Amendment?
Brought an end to WWI.
Imposed harsh penalties on Germany including losing much of its territory, signing a War Guilt Clause and required to pay large repartations.
Included the League of Nations.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
General Joseph Finnegan defeated 5.500 Union soldiers in Florida at _______________.
What is the Battle of Olustee.
President Johnson was impeached because he violated __________.
What was the Tenure of Office Act.
Encouraged settlement of the Western lands by allotting 160 acres of land to homeowners who promised to improve the land and live there for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862
Allowed Floridians to export citrus, vegetables, tobacco, cotton, beef and cattle. Also brought tourist to Flagler's luxury hotels.
What is The Florida East Coast Railroad?
A radical political theory opposing all forms of government in favor of self-governing communities.
What is Anarchism?
Many of its ideas were later adapted such as, the direct election for senators. The Secret Ballot. Income Tax. 8 hour workday.
What is the Populist Platform? (Omaha Platform)
A newly formed third party was created to run against current president Taft and Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson. The party was called the Progressive Party. Its name will change when Theodore Roosevelt decides to run on its ticket.
What is The Bull Moose Party?
Theodore Roosevelt accepted a Japanese invitation to mediate the conflict of the _____________. President Roosevelt would receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
What is Russo-Japanese War?
Demanded by President Wilson that it be included in the Treaty of Versailles.
Had no real army and depended on the goodwill of its members.
It would be rejected by the U.S. Senate
What is The League of Nations?