Us History - Mid Term

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What was the Scopes Trial about?

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IT exposed a deep division in American society between traditional religious values and new values based on scientific ways of though

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What was the name of the plan to rebuild the former Confederate states?

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Reconstruction

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Why did Americans want to move west?

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economic opportunity, and racial tolerance

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What was trench warfare?

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World War I military strategy of defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches

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What were the main social classes of people in the late 1800's?

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Upper class, middle class, lower class

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What were some of the problems that led to the rise of labor unions?

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Low wages for long hours, Child Labor, Unsafe working conditions

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What were some new weapons used during WWI?

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Poison gas, submarines, and airplanes

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What were three different hardships farmers suffered through in the 1800's?

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Falling crop prices, rising railroad rates, mounting expenses

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What was the Mexican revolution and what was its outcome?

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Toppled the Diaz Dictatorship, rebel forces defeated Diaz's, Madero became president

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How did steel manufacturing affect railroads?

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Significant impact on the extension of railroads, lead to a more efficient network of rail transportation

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Which countries were part of the Central Powers and the Allied Powers during World War I?

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The allied powers were Britain, France and Russia. The Central Powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria

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Hod did the KKK use the Red Scare to further their efforts during the 1920's?

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Increased hostility towards foreigners and radicals

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Why did American Indians not want to move to reservations?

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Inadequate supplies, broken treaties

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What means did women use to try to gain the right to vote?

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formed the NAWSA, picketing, supported the war effort, hunger strike

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Why did many immigrants come to the United States?

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religious freedom, to own land

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Why were immigrants loyal supporters of political machines?

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they helped newcomers get settled in their new home and meet them as soon as they arrived

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Homestead Act

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Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years. The settler would only have to pay a registration fee of $25.

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Comstock Lode

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first discovered in 1858 by Henry Comstock, some of the most plentiful and valuable silver was found here, causing many Californians to migrate here, and settle Nevada.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)

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Great Upheaval

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the various confrontations and strikes during the late 1800s

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Pendleton Civil Service Act

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1883 law that created a Civil Service Commission and stated that federal employees could not be required to contribute to campaign funds nor be fired for political reasons

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W.E.B. DuBois

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1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910

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Pure food and drug act

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the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs

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Liliukalani

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hawainn queen overthrown in 1893

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Al Capone

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United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947)

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Bolshevik Revolution

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The overthrow of Russia's Provisional Government in the fall of 1917 by Lenin and his Bolshevik forces, made possible by the government's continuing defeat in the war, its failure to bring political reform, and a further decline in the conditions of everyday life.

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Ida Tarbell

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A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.

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Jim Crow Laws

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enforced segregation

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Langston Hughes

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African American US writer (1902-1967)

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Tammany Hall

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a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism

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Trail of Tears

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The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.

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assembly line

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Production system created by Henry Ford to make goods faster by moving parts on a conveyor belt past workers

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Assimilate

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to absorb into a population

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Conscription

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Compulsory draft into military service

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Cooperatives

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Groups that pool members' resources to sell products directly to markets and to buy goods at wholesale prices

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Corporations

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Company that sells shares of ownership called stock to investors in order to raise money

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Federalism

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System of governing in which power is divided between a strong central government and state governments

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Freedom of Contract

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Freedom of workers to negotiate the terms of their employment

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Horizontal Integration

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Ownership of several companies that make the same product

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Imperialism

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Quest for colonial empires

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Manifest Destiny

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Belief of many Americans in the mid-1800s that God intended the United States to expand westward

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Nativists

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Favoring native-born Americans over foreign-born

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Nouveau Riche

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"Newly rich"; new class of American city-dwellers that arose in the late 1800s; most made their fortunes from business during the Second Industrial Revolution

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Patent

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Exclusive right to manufacture or sell an invention

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Political machines

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Well-organized political parties that dominated local and state governments in the late 1800s

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Populists/Populism

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People's Party; national political party formed in 1892 that supported a graduated income tax, bank regulation, government ownership of some companies, restrictions on immigration, shorter workdays, and voting reform

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Progressives/Progressivism

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Reform movement of the early 1900s concerned with curing problems of urbanization and industrialization

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Railheads

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Town located along a railroad; long cattle drives usually ended there

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Reconstruction

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(1865-77) Period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to rebuild the former Confederate states and reunite the nation

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Settlement Houses

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Community-service centers that were founded in the late 1800s to offer educational opportunities, skills training, and cultural events to impoverished neighborhoods

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Social Darwinism

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Theory adapted by philosopher Herbert Spencer from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution; argued that society progresses through competition, with the fittest rising to positions of wealth a power

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Square Deal

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Theodore Roosevelt's 1904 presidential campaign slogal pledging to balance the interests of business, consumers, and labor

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Suffrage

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a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution

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14th amendment

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Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

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15th amendment

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citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude

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17th amendment

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Direct election of senators