Hist 144 Honors Mid-Term

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Who was the president consequent to Lincoln's shooting

(by John Wilkes Booth)

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Andrew Johnson, Linclon's Vice President

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A dam that put ppl to work, in building it, to help out with Great Depression.One of few things Herbert Hoover did to assist the Great Depression downfalls

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Hoover Dam

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Reconstruction (physical & social) president, after civil war opposite ideologies than that of Lincoln

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Andrew Johnson

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1816, during the civil war, created this which, aimed to bring the country back together

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Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty

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1865, passed in southern states, which were new laws meant to provide expanded opportunities to newly freedem(provided right to marry, testify in court, to own property, etc.)

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Black Codes

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1865, abolished slavery

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13th Amendment

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1888, Added citizenship (defining rights of born or naturalization ppl)

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14th Amendment

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1865, an attempt to reconstruct after the civil war by Andrew Johnson, by sending North federal troops to provide construction assistance, medical care to help families & communities, & ensure all ppl made wages for labor

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Freedmen's Bureau

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1868, after Andrew Johnson was impeached, this union general went for equality in his 2 terms

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Under who's administration was the trans-continental railroad completed

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Following Civil War Confederate veterans from Tennessee got together, held meetings

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Ku Klux Klan

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1870, Added voting right protection for citizens, regardless of race, color, or previous servitude condition

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15th Amendment

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1880's Asked native families to relinquish their cultural ties & traditions & embrace Americanism to receive plots of land from gov.

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Dawes Severalty Act

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1869, the Union & Central Pacific got gov. bonds to compete, & met together in Utah

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Trans-continental Railroad

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Moved goods quicker than ever before, & ppl from East could experience the West

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Trans-continental Railroad

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1882, Prohibited new Chinese immigration into U.S. for 10 yrs. (prejudice towards Chinese excellerated during construction of trans-continental railroad)

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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1860, Frontiers men Bill Cody wrote stories about his experience, but stereotyped

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The Wild West (Buffalo Bill)

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1893, presented academic thesis at Chicago world fair on book "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," which emphasized the importance of West, set precedent for History books, showing that there's more than Anglo-Saxon culture

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Frederick Jackson Turner

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Some who did not come independently, could often run own buissnesses, & others who did, took up one of the most common & lucrative professions, being prostitution

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Women in the West

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A writer, who also became an advocate for challenges Native Americans faced against the gov., & published "A Century of Dishonor," which exposed the inequity native groups faced for decades

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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Concluded that Native Americans should assimilate to American customs in order to resolve issues with federal gov., but was a advocate for them

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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Wrote Memphis Free Press Newspaper, which discussed anti-lynching advocacy in African American communities & sexual violence against African American women. After being threatened too, left to the North

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Ida B. Wells

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PhD who wrote multiple books about black experiences, "Souls of Black Folk," & told African Americans to focus on own community, instead of cultural assimilation, & gave a "we deserve" attitude, with black pride

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Also black intellectual, who urged African Americans to assimilate as a whole with white America (during segregation & all), & basically advocated to asking whites for help & to give to them

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Booker T. Washington

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Plessy V. Ferguson

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1896, Homer Plessy, black, basically took case to US supreme Court to challenge Louisiana's long segregated transportation. Court ruled "Separate but Equal"

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Wizard of Menlo Park. Had over 1,000 patents in their lifetime. Created stock ticker, voting tally machine, light bulb, and kinetoscope/nickelodeon

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Thomas Edison

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At the end of the 19th century, popularized by Herbert Spencer, & attempted to justify racist ideologies in western world (w/ science)

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Social Darwinisn

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Representation in American culture, a socially & politically progressive turn of the century. Considered young, anti-victorian, & physically, & socially active. Aimed to promote individual identity & express selves in ability to work outside home & clothes

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The "new woman"

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World's fair took place in Chicago, that showed off social & educational progress of U.S. in 19th century, that exhibited 1st building lit by light bulbs, but included racial stereotypes on display

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Columbian Exposition of 1893

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Scottish immigrant who worked as a telegrapher on railroad, & eventually invested in creating a steel company, from Pennsylvania. Wrote the "Gospel of Wealth," that encouraged the wealthy in America to give to charity

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Andrew Carnegie

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1870's through 1910's, America experienced 2nd industrial revolution, which was a rapid rise in technology, industry, & social stratification. Created urbanization, placed value on capitalism, but led to de-humanization with bad factory work

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Rise of Industry

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Managerial positions, & named after distinctive fashion, & higher aspirations

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White Collar Workers

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1860's, group of men formed one of the first unions in America's history. Protested & boycotted for improved working conditions as well as better pay & end to child labor

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Knights of Labor

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After staged explosion of U.S.S. Maine by U.S. of Spanish, & U.S. assisted Cuba for their independence

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Spanish American War

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1911, over 100 ppl died, primarily young Jewish & Italian women, & caused safety regulations to be implemented

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Triangle Shirt Waist Company

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Published "How the Other Half Lives" to expose living conditions of immigrants & urban poor. Describes tenament lives, & book shed light on human cost of class stratification & cost of industrial life

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Jacob Riius

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1914, A Serbian nationalist, to make a stand for independence from Austria, killed Austrian-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Germany & France become enemies

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Origins of WW1

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Original Central Powers

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Austria-Hungary, Germany, & Ottoman Empire

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Original Allied Powers

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England, France, & Russia

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When did U.S. join WW1

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April 1917

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Air craft, tanks, machine guns, & chemical warfare became the most impactful

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WW1 Technologies

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Were widely used & extended for thousands of miles, & became space where soldiers lived, fought, & died.

No man's land. Deadly, & unsafe

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Trench Warfare

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Posters, newspapers, magazines, etc. collaborated to increase patriotic duty & war time efforts

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Wartime Propaganda

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Allowed 'em to experience their contributions to war on the home front & in U.S. unemployment fell to less than 2%. Primarily filled industrial jobs, many of which directly contributed to military technology production

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Women & WW2

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Nov. 1918 the war ended, by 1919 the treaty of Versailles officially brought peace to the war era. Before this, president Woodrow Wilson declared this, of which he encouraged nationalism & an end to Empire building in what he deemed an age to self-determination

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14 Points

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After WW1, increase presence in society, & movement moved quicker than ever before. With amendment to constitution

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Women's Suffrage

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Early 1900's, the political platform of their party was led by men like Theodore Roosevelt, but on grass roots level. Focused on economy inequality, & improving living conditions, child labor, & improving health & sanitation, & most impactful, Prohibition

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Progressivism

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1920's American consumption exalerated. Introduced new forms of media, also increased value of advertising, & contributed to a culture which embraced capitalism, but rarely progress addressed for discrimination, & ongoing racial strife

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Age of Innovation

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1st of it's kind introduced in Germany in late 1800's, but in U.S., company up-ed workers pay to $5 a day

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Rise of Automobile

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Began in 1920's, with 1st appearance in Pittsburgh. Became epicenter of families

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Radio

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Silent prior to later 1920's, dominated, & contributed to the rise of celebrity culture. 1st non-silent in 1927. Houses for this became spaces of social engagement. And values replicated by younger generation

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Film

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Mostly middle class/upper, & didn't have to work. And characterized the decade with a female fashion that did away with older traditions. And were younger & engaged in social activities which contradicted their gender expectations

(Persuit of Pleasure)

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Flappers

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As early as 1820's, social movement started. By early 1900's, took nearly a century of reform & federal lobbying. 1919, amendment passed against this

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Prohibition

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Took place 1920's, & promoted distinctly African-American forms of music, art, dance, & literature. Writers expressed their experiences, & artists portrayed hardships, but joy of life

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Harlem Renaissance

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In 1920's, a biology teacher in Tennessee put on trial for teaching evolution. Trial on Radio

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The Scopes Trial

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Oct. 29 1929, stock market experienced worse downfall in history

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The Great Crash

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Long time Democrat out of NY, became well known, replaced Hoover in 1932, & created more trust in gov. with acts

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Frank Deleanor Roosevelt

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Lasted throughout the administration, & put together social programs that focused on national infrastructure, unemployment, & improving social policy. And with all, helped great depression

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The New Deal

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AAA

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Agricultural Adjustment Act.

Roosevelt New Deal act by gov. subsidized & gave money to farmers to kill off livestock to supplement losses

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ERAA

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Emergency Relief Appropriation Act.

Roosevelt New Deal act. Helped unemployment by giving country building infrastructure jobs to layed off factory workers

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CCC

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Civilian Conservation Corps.

Roosevelt New Deal act. Young ppl planted millions of trees, & in national parks too from this, doing public works programs as this

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SSA

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Roosevelt New Deal act.

Social Security Act.

Aimed to help groups as unemployed, elderly, & disabled. What is now gov. SSN pension

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FSA

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Roosevelt New Deal act.

Farming Security Administration.

It allowed the gov. to purchase large portions of land & encouraged multiple families to engage in collectivised farming on that land.

Included photography program meant to show the hardship of American farmer families

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Provided new water to the west & hydro-electricity, for 1st to do this

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Hoover Dam

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Constitution Amendment that added women's right to vote

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