Social Studies Midterm Review

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Sharecropping

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Cycle of debt

System of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land

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13th Amendment

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Outlawed slavery

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14th Amendment

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Citizenship for African Americans and equal protection under the law

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15th Amendemnt

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Voting rights for African Americans men

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Poll Tax

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A personal tax to be paid before voting

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Literacy Test

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Exam to determine qualification for voting

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Grandfather Clause

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A provision that allowed a voter to avoid a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote

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Jim Crows Law

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Legalize segregation=separate African Americans and whites

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Carpetbagger

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Northeners who moved south looking for profit

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Scalawag

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Southern whites who opposed secession and supported reconstruction and Republic Prty

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Assimilate

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To change and adopt or become part of another culture

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Reservation

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An area of public lands set aside for Native Americans who had been displaced

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Melting Pot Theory

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Different cultures mix/blend to form a new culture (assimilation)

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Salad Bowl Theory (cultural pluralism)

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The people of different cultures of the U.S. combined like a salad

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Nativist

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A person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants

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Urbanization

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Movement of large numbers of people from rural areas to cities; rapid growth of city populations

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Tenement

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A building which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety

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Quota System

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A limit or organization

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Free-enterprise system

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Capitalism: business are privately owned, prices are determined by supply and demand, consumers and public drive change

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Laissez-Faire

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Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy

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Mass Production

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Large production of an amount

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Corporation

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Business owned by many investors (stocks)

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Monopoly

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Company that controls all or nearly all business in a particular industry

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Vertical Integration

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Buys up its supply line from the top to the bottom

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Horizontal Integration

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When a company buys out its competitors

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Labor Union

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Organization of workers

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Social Darwinism

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The idea of "Survival of the Fittest" to human affairs

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Progressive Movement

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Change society for the better

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Muckrakers

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Expose the government and how people lived

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Pendleton Act

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Created the Civil Service Commission

-required people to take a test in order to get a government job

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Initiative

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Voters power to put a bill before state legislature

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Referendum

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Voters power to accept or veto a bill, create laws

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Recall

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Voters power to remove an elected official from office

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17th Amendment

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Allowed for the direct election of US senators by the people

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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Reform which made certain business practices illegal

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Square Deal

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Balancing the need of workers, owners, farmers and consumers

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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Required accurate labeling of food and medicine

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Meat Inspection Act

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Ensures that meat products are processed in sanitary conditions and are not contaminated

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18th Amendement

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Prohibition: outlawed the making, purchase and use of alcohol

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19th Amendement

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Women's Suffrage--right to vote

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Booker T. Washington

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Worked to improve African American social standing through economic standing

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Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896

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Supreme Court Case: upheld Jim Crow Laws, "separate but equal"

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Imperialism

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Expanding one's influence and power by taking over other lands/nations

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Yellow Journalism

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Exaggerated information to influence public opinion

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Spanish-American War

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-US gained Guam, Phillppines, and Puerto Rico

-US maintained a naval base in Cuba- Guantanmao Bay

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Open Door Policy

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China will be allowed to trade with any nation

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Roosevelt Corollary

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Addition to the Monroe Doctrine (US would get involved in INTERNAL ISSUES in Latin America;settle unrest)

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Anti-Imperialists

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Imperialism is costly and can result fighting,war and even death