Unit 1
This connected the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean revolutionizing travel and shipping in the United States
Transcontinental Railroad
Organizations of workers who join together to negotiate with employers for better wages, benefits, schedules, and working conditions
Labor Unions
The U.S. and Europe believing it was their duty to carry other countries to civilization
White Man's Burden
This event was a time of nativist fear towards immigrants and their radical political beliefs of Communism and anarchism in the late 1910's and early 1920's
The 1st Red Scare
What phrase summarized the Plessy v.s. Ferguson?
Separate but Equal
One person or company over an entire industry describes this
Monopoly
Yellow Journalism reporting on this event causes American support and outcry for war with Spain in 1898
The sinking/explosion of the USS Maine
What did the 18th Amendment do?
Ban alcohol (buying, selling, transporting)
What did each of the 3 Reconstruction amendments do?
13 = abolish slavery
14 = citizenship to U.S. born persons
15 = voting rights/protections
This act banned laborers from immigrating into the United States for several decades simply because of their nationality
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Why did the Zimmermann Telegram lead the United States to join WW1?
The Germans had plotted/offered to support a Mexican invasion of a neutral United States and guarantee American soil to a neighboring country
This sparked the Harlem Renaissance in New York
The Great Migration
Give a specific example of the effect of assimilation from our Carlisle School Investigation
Hair being cut, mandated uniforms, paler complexion, speaking English, having "American names," children getting sick from eating foods their body isn't familiar with
Give me an example for each Push Factor and Pull Factor
Push Factor - something negative
Pull Factor - something postitive
List all four terms that go with the M.A.I.N. causes of World War I
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
1930's
How was the Homestead Act different from the Dawes Act?
It gave land to settlers first, whereas the Dawes Act tried to sell land back to Natives. The Homestead Act required the land be farmed. Homestead Act gave the land up in exchange for working it.
Give me a muckraker and a specific thing they did in relation to muckraking
Ida B. Wells = exposed racial terror lynching
Ida Tarbell = criticized Standard Oil monopoly
Jacob Riis = photographed immigrant neighborhood living conditions
Upton Sinclair, Nellie Bly, John Spargo
Did Hawaiians want to be annexed by the United States why or why not?
Native Hawaiians no - petition of over 30k signatures, Queen Liliuokalani petitioned and traveled to DC,
Immigrant Hawaiians yes - military support and bases, benefits to export sugar tariff free, disliked Queen
Give two specific problems that we discussed from our review that highlight the Great Depression.
Poverty among the elderly, Dust Bowl/Environmental issues, High unemployment, labor strikes/riots, hunger, Homelessness/Hoovervilles, Farm foreclosures, Bank runs and failures, Stock Market instability,