Civil War and Reconstruction
Northern plan to?blockade Southern ports, seize the Mississippi, divide the Confederacy and capture Richmond
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Known as People’s Party, this political party formed in 1891 to advocate for a larger money supply (coinage of “free silver”), and government ownership of railroads.
What is Populist Party or the goals of the Populist Party?
The policy of expanding power and influence into other countries.
What is Imperialism?
Granted women the right to vote, as reward for women’s efforts in the war/ Efforts made by the National Women’s Suffrage Association?(NAWSA)
What is the 19th Amendment?
The US foreign policy from 1939-1941 that included not getting involved in foreign affairs.
What is Non-Intervention or Nuetrality?
Northerners who came to the south for political and economic advantages. Southerners who sided with Northern Republicans and supported Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers and scalawags?
An organization controlled by a boss that gets citizens to vote for its candidate on election day Ex. Boss William Tweed ran Tammany Hall, NYC
What is a political machine?
Document that promised that the US would not annex Cuba
What is Teller Amendment?
Buying on Margin. Installment Buying. A stock market in which stock prices were steadily increasing as result of speculation. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff – highest tariff in history. Stock Market Crash and bank runs.
What are causes of the Great Depression?
The systematic slaughter of millions of Jews and other peoples
What is the Holocaust?
Laws in the United States after the Civil War that limited civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans
What are the Black Codes?
A belief that the best and most qualified will survive in business
What is Social Darwinism?
America can intervene when it seems necessary to maintain stability in the Western Hemisphere. [an extension of the Monroe Doctrine]
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Federal government (FDR’s) laws promoting recovery and providing relief to Americans. Examples Works Progress Administration
What is the New Deal?
The cities where the US dropped the atomic bomb on Japan
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
A system in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter’s land in return for a share of the sale of crops kept many southern whites and blacks in debt
What is sharecropping?
A person who favors native born Americans over immigrants /Portrayed hostility, hatred, and distrust of new immigrants
What are Nativists?
This war, beginning in 1898, revealed that the US had become a world power AND is also considered a major turning point in US History
What is The Spanish American War?
African Americans wanted to demonstrate that they could produce great works of literature and art during this time period
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Militarism, Alliance, Imperialism, and Nationalism
What is the M.A.I.N cause of WWII?
The name of the Executive action that freed slaves in the Rebellious states during the Civil War
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Henry Flagler and John D. Rockefeller
What is who built the Florida East Coast Railroad?
Many Senators feared that this organization would involve the US in foreign wars and therefore did not participate.
What is the League of Nations?
New Deal program that protects American's money in banks.
What was is the FDIC?
February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, granting the U.S. military the power to ban tens of thousands of American citizens from areas deemed critical to domestic security.
What is the Japanese Internment