Chapter 3/4
What was the Anaconda plan?
Unions plan to take control of Mississippi and and split the conferdacy
What was the sharecropping system?
A landowner dicataed the crop and provided the sharecropper with a place to live, in return for a share of crop harvest
What is Progressivism?
A general political philosophy advocating or favoring gradual social, political, and economic reform
What is a muckraker?
Reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States
What year did WWI begin?
JULY 28,1914
Explain Missouri Compromise
Created by Congress in 1820 to regulate slavery in the west and prohibit slavery North of Louisiana territory 36'30 parallel
What was the Freedman's Bureau created to do?
Assist newly freed Black Americans find jobs, get education, and get anything need to live outside of slavery
What were the homestead acts?
The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically at little or no cost.
"Separate but equal" is known from what U.S. trial?
Plessy v Ferguson
What territories did the United States gain in the Spanish American War?
The United States acquired Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as territories.
Explain compromise of 1850
California was admitted as free state and states of new territories were obtained from Mexico
"Speak softly and carry a big stick" He
utilized this idea to help the United States gain territory?
Big Stick Diplomacy - Theodore Roosevelt
What was the significance of the Pullman's strike?
Left behind a legacy in the US labor movement and showed other groups that they could use non-violent methods to bring attention to issues.
Eventually the work of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union led to?
The ban of alcohol sale and production in 1919
The Committee on Public Information was made to encourage what?
Americans to support the war
Who was a strong military leader who gave the south an advantage?
General Robert E. Lee
Andrew Carnegie?
A steel tycoon who used vertical integration to increase his power
________ aided Chinese workers to build railroads from the west to the east, while helping Irish people from East to west.
Transcontinental Railroad
Define social darwinism
An ideology of society that seeks to apply biological concepts of Darwinism or of evolutionary theory to sociology and politics,
__________was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West for most of the 20th century.
The Great Migration
What were the effects of the Nebraska-Kansas Act?
Created a series of violent confrontations between the anti-slavery and pro-slavery parties; known as Bleeding Kansas
The Hull House was a settlement house created by_______________________?
Jane Adams
What are push and pull factors?
Push factors for immigration are those that compel people to leave their homes. Pull factors are those that attract them to a new place.
This canal cuts across the Isthmus and is
a key conduit for international maritime trade?
Panama Canal
What four factors caused WWI?
Nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and entangling alliances