Ch.1 & 2
What was the cause of the Stamp Act?
Britain needed $$$
What model describe buying up smaller companies and creating a mega company or a monopoly
Horizontal Integration
First English Colony founded in America failed in the beginning due to swampy location and Native American raids. John Smith provided strong leadership and John Rolfe domesticated tobacco for economic prosperity.
Jamestown
What was the impact of Matthew C. Perry's black ships on Japan?
Japan signed the Treaty of Kanagawa and started trading with the US
What amendment banned the sale and consumption of alcohol?
18th
What is the significance of the three branches of power (Legislative, Judicial, and Executive)?
Each branch limits and monitors the other 2
What is Manifest Destiny?
the nation was meant to spread all the way to the Pacific
Prohibited the production distribution and consumption of alcohol. Commonly referred to as “Prohibition."
18th Amendment
What has been the impact of these authors and their books on American society?
-How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1890) -The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (1906)
- The Shame of the Cities, Lincoln Steffens (1904)
influence on social, political, and economic reforms
The Espionage and Sedition Act of 1918 were designed to...
limit opposition to the war in the United States
What problem would arise if Missouri was added as enslaved state?
it would upset the balance of power between slave and free states in the senate
What is an example of the Resurgence of Nativism in the late 19th century?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.
13th Amendment
What caused the rise of progressivism?
-laissez-faire economics
-poverty, filth and crime of urban society
The greatest number of immigrants to the United States came from which region in the early 20th century?
Southern and Eastern Europe
What led the south to seceed from the Union?
The election of 1860
What caused Nativism during the Industrial Revolution?
-Immigrants working for lower wages
-Fear of new religions and cultures
Italian immigrants who were self-proclaimed anarchists who were convicted of robbery and murder without solid evidence and sentenced to death
Sacco and Vanzetti
What is Anglo-Saxonism?
Belief that English speaking nations were superior and meant to dominate the world
John T. Scopes was put on trial for…
teaching evolution
Why did California seek admittance into the United States in 1850?
the population increased because of the Gold Rush
What determined the success of the “New Immigrants”?
How well immigrants adjusted depended on how quickly they learned English, adapted to American culture, their skills, amount of money they possessed AND settling among members of their own ethnic group.
fear that communists and anarchists were planning to take over America.
Red Scare
Name 2 Progressive political reforms.
-19th Amendment
-16th Amendment
-17th Amendment
-Pure Food and Drug Act
WHY did nativism increase in the 1920s?
Many Americans reacted to the problems WWI caused in postwar years by blaming Immigrants and through the Red Scare