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Kept balance between slave and free states. Missouri joins as slave; Maine as free

Missouri Compromise

Exaggerated loyalty to one's own region

Sectionalism

California joins as free state; New Mexico Territory has no restrictions on slavery

Compromise of 1850

Required all citizens to catch runaway slaves

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Allowed states to vote on issue of slavery

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Right of people to decide if they want slavery

Popular Sovereignty

Breaking away from U.S. and forming independent country

Secession

Sued for his freedom after owner moved him to free state

Dred Scott

Supreme Court rules that slaves are property and gov't can't prohibit slavery

The Dred Scott Decision

Main debate topic during Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Slavery

Violent abolitionist who led Raid on Harper's Ferry

John Brown

States voluntarily joined Union and have right to leave Union.

States' Rights

Event directly led to southern secession

Election of Abraham Lincoln

U.S. President during Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

Confederate President during Civil War

Jefferson Davis

First southern state to secede

South Carolina

First shots of Civil War were fired here

Fort Sumter

To preserve Union and bring south back to U.S.

North's goal at start of war

1. Control Mississippi River;


2. Blockade southern ports;


3. Capture Richmond.

Anaconda Plan (Union's plan for winning)

First major battle of Civil War

1st Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas)

Turning point in Civil War

Battle of Gettysburg

Grant took control of Mississippi River

Battle of Vicksburg

Location where Lee surrendered to Grant

Appomattox Courthouse

Document that freed slaves in enemy territory

Emancipation Proclamation

Helped war weary Americans focus on shared ideals

Gettysburg Address

Teachers, office workers, sales clerks, factory workers, soldiers, spies, nurses

Roles women served during Civil War

Government selection for military service

Draft

African-American regiment attacked fort; respected for bravery.

54th Massachusetts

Georgia and South Carolina devastated by "total war"

Sherman's March to the Sea

1. More than 600,000 soldiers dead;


2. Billions of dollars in damage;


3. Bitter feelings that lasted generations.

Results of the Civil War

Period of rebuilding the south after the war

Reconstruction

Forgiveness from government

Amnesty

Southern states readmitted to Union once 10% swore allegiance to Union

Lincoln's 10% Plan

Helped freed slaves by finding them jobs

Freedmen's Bureau

President Lincoln's assassin

John Wilkes Booth

Amendment abolished slavery

13th

Amendment gave citizenship to all persons born in U.S.

14th

Amendment gave all men the right to vote

15th

Reason President Johnson was impeached

Violated Tenure of Office Act by firing Edwin Stanton

Secret society that terrorized and murdered African Americans in the post-Civil War south.

Ku Klux Klan

Laws that withheld rights from freed slaves - slavery in disguise

Black Codes

Unfair system of farming that kept freed slaves poor after Civil War

Sharecropping

Ended Reconstruction

Compromise of 1877

Enforced racism, discrimination, & segregation

Jim Crow Laws

Legalized "separate but equal"

Plessy v. Ferguson

Combining multiple companies into one

Consolidation

Powerful owners of railroads during Industrial Era

Railroad Barons

Area that saw expansion as a result of railroads

West

Industrialist who dominated oil industry

John D. Rockefeller

Complete control of an industry

Monopoly

Industrialist who dominated steel industry

Andrew Carnegie

Law to prohibit trusts and monopolies

Sherman Antitrust Act

Unions represent workers in meetings with business owners

Collective bargaining

Tragedy led to ILGWU demanding safer working conditions

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Reasons why emigrants left homeland

Push Factors

Jobs, plentiful & affordable land, & opportunities for better life

Pull Factors

Reason why some immigrants were refused entrance into the U.S.

Contagious Diseases

Processing center for immigrants on east coast

Ellis Island

Processing center for immigrants on west coast

Angel Island

To take on characteristics & customs of Americans

Assimilate

Dark, crowded workshops where workers made clothes

Sweatshops

Banned Chinese people from immigrating to U.S.

Chinese Exclusion Act

Apartment buildings in slums of big cities

Tenements

Residential areas outside city where Middle Class lived

Suburbs

Skyscrapers, cable cars, trolleys, subways, paved streets, steel bridges

Developments in cities during Industrial Era

Community buildings that provided medical care, playgrounds, nurseries, libraries, and classes.

Settlement House

Most famous settlement house

Hull House by Jane Addams

Sensational news writing meant to grab reader's attention

Yellow Journalism

Banker who backed Edison

J.P. Morgan

Leader of American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers

Invented Alternating Current (AC) electricity

Nikola Tesla

Where most "new" immigrants came from

Eastern and Southern Europe

Where most "old" immigrants came from

Western and Northern Europe

Neighborhoods known for poverty, disease, and crime

Slums

Event caused people to associate unions with terrorism

Haymarket Riot

Invented electric light bulb.

Thomas Edison

Major crop failures, persecution of ethnic groups, & overcrowding and poverty

Push factors

Commodore, controlled New York railroads

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Industries that grew due to the railroads

Steel, lumber, & coal

Land, labor, & capital

Factors of production

Industrialist who caused railroad industry to collapse

John D. Rockefeller

Term representing extravagant wealth hiding extreme poverty

Gilded Age

Purchasing competing companies

Horizontal Integration

Purchasing companies in your supply chain

Vertical Integration

People who give away money to charitable causes

Philanthropists

Dissatisfied workers organize into these groups to demand better pay and working conditions

Labor Unions

Frick called in Pinkertons to squash this strike

Homestead Strike

Areas in the country, sparse populations, not built up.

Rural

Areas in city with high populations, industry.

Urban

Extending power & influence through diplomacy or force
Imperialism
Non-involvement in world affairs
Isolationism
Territorial or economic expansion
Expansionism
Sailed to Japan in 1853 with warships
Commodore Matthew Perry
Opened Japanese ports in 1854
Treaty of Kanagawa
Need for resources, markets, military bases, & resupply stations
Reasons for U.S. imperialism
Purchased Alaska from Russia
William H Seward
Nickname for Alaska
Seward's Folly
Document that warned Europe against colonizing in Americas
Monroe Doctrine
Created to share info between US and Latin America
Pan-American Union
Pacific Islands US took over
Hawaii, Midway, Samoa
Hawaiian queen overthrown by Planters' Revolt
Queen Liliuokalani
Taxes on sugar led to this event
American Planters' Revolt
Allowed free trade in China
Open-Door Policy
Areas where foreign nations enjoy rights
Spheres of Influence
Proposed Open-Door Policy
John Hay
Secret Chinese martial arts society
Boxers
Chinese uprising against foreign nations
Boxer Rebellion
16 US warships meant to scare Japan
Great White Fleet
Cuba fought Spain for independence
Cuban Rebellion
US battleship that exploded in Havana Harbor
U.S.S. Maine
US Cavalry volunteers led by Teddy Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Marked end of Spanish American War
Treaty of Paris
Canal allowing ship travel between Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
Panama Canal
Narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land
Isthmus
Disorder and lawlessness
Anarchy
America can intervene in Latin America when nations seem unstable
Roosevelt Corollary
Foreign policy using military / intimidation
Big Stick Diplomacy
Mexican rebel leader & murderer
Pancho Villa
Competing militarily
Militarism
Defense agreements
Alliances
Creating colonies
Imperialism
Intense loyalty to country or ethnicity
Nationalism
German WWI submarines
Unterseeboots (U-Boats)
Event that started WWI
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Serbia, Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan, & Italy
Allied Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, & Ottoman Empire
Central Powers
Fighting in trenches dug into earth
Trench Warfare
Not taking sides
Neutrality
Information to influence opinions
Propaganda
WWI Passenger ship sank by Germany
Lusitania
Secret WWI telegram from Germany to Mexico
Zimmermann Note
Russian communists who overthrew gov't
Bolsheviks
Russian communist leader
Vladimir Lenin
Treaty that led to rise of Adolph Hitler
Treaty of Versailles
Organization that Woodrow Wilson proposed after WWI
League of Nations
Result of 1st Russian Revolution
Overthrow & death of Romanov family
Implemented draft
Selective Service Act
Germany's promise to warn ships before attacking
Sussex Pledge
Peace treaty or end to fighting
Armistice
Sold by gov't to raise money for war
Liberty Bonds
First country to declare war in WWI
Austria-Hungary
System of private property & free enterprise
Capitalism
People who want no government
Anarchists
Communists & anarchists
Reds
Era when gov't feared spread of communism
Red Scare
Italian immigrants executed during Red Scare
Sacco & Vanzetti
Making small, monthly payments on goods
Installment buying
Scandal involving oil drilling rights
Teapot Dome Scandal
Document that outlawed war
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Amount of work each worker can do
Productivity
Pioneer in manufacture of affordable cars
Henry Ford
Economic system feared by Americans
Communism
Aviator who flew solo across Atlantic Ocean
Charles Lindbergh
Symbolized new, liberated woman of 1920s
Flappers
Communication that reaches millions
Mass Media
Ban on manufacture & sale of alcohol
Prohibition
Crime boss during Prohibition
Al Capone
Amendment that started Prohibition

18th

Amendment that ended Prohibition

21st

System to buy & sell stocks
Stock Market
Pay fraction of stock price and borrow rest
Buying on margin
Farms shrink, rich & poor gap widens, & credit crisis
Causes of Great Depression
1930s Economic Crisis
Great Depression
Shantytowns made of garbage
Hoovervilles
WWI veterans who marched on Washington, D.C. to receive their bonus from the government
Bonus Army
President who promised Americans a New Deal

Franklin Roosevelt

Laws & programs to help America defeat the Great Depression
New Deal
Environmental disaster in the Great Plains in the 1930s
Dust Bowl
New Deal program that gave jobs to unemployed men
Works Progress Administration
Program that launched American welfare system

Social Security Act

German dictator who invaded Poland in 1939, starting WWII

Adolf Hitler