History 121 - Exam 1

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How many slaves were freed at the end of the Civil War?

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4 million

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In 1865 southern
blacks defined "freedom" as:
whites defined "freedom" as:

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-independence from white control & acquiring legal rights.
-controlling their future without northern interference.

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The 14th Amendment defined_______
15th defined ________

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citizenship
right to vote

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Jim Crow laws and "black codes":

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imposed a system of state-supported segregation

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The Freedman's Bureau:

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established schools for ex-slaves

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Plessy vs. Ferguson:

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important 1896 supreme court case which established "separate but equal"

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Positives of reconstruction:
Negatives:

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+Opportunities, votes, churches, education.
-Jim Crow laws/black codes, Lincoln assassination, white supremacy, sharecropping, carpetbaggers.

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"Manifest Destiny":

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the divine right to expand from east to west

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The Homestead Act of 1862:
The Timber Culture Act:

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160 acres granted to settlers
160 more acres granted to settlers

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Geronimo's surrender in 1886 marked the end of...

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Formal welfare between American Indians and the US government

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The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in:

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1869

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Key factors in industrial supremacy:

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Raw materials, technology, entrepreneurship, government assistance, expanding market for goods, cheap labor

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Vertical Integration:
Horizontal Integration:

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-Buy & control every part of the company
-Buy several businesses of the same type in multiple locations (monopoly)

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"Ideology of the Individual" includes what 4 factors:

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1.) The self-made man (horatio alger success stories)
2.) Social Darwinism - survival of the fittest
3.) The Gospel of Wealth
4.) Rise of monopolies

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Negatives of Urbanization:

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Inadequate housing, overcrowding in cities, disease, filth, poverty, crime, fire, child labor, no support systems.

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Positives of Urbanization:

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Jobs, arts/museums, parks, public education & universities, sports, more leisure time, science & medicine.

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New Manifest Destiny:

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divine right to take land anywhere in the world

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Year Hawaii was annexed:

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1898

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1898 Spanish-American War:
War gave America control over:

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-Began in Cuba, Cubans revolting against Spanish, the U.S.S. Maine exploded off Havana.
-Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, & Philippines

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Key Imperialists:

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Theodore Roosevelt & William Randolph Hearst

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Anti-Imperialists:

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William Jennings Bryan & Andrew Carnegie

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"Yellow Journalism":

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Emotional, sentimental, sensational, etc... content in the newspaper

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Imperialism required:

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expanded military & more assertive international diplomacy

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"Muckrackers":

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Reform-minded journalists in Progressive Era. Wrote about social issues and raised public awareness of poverty, unsafe working conditions, & child labor

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Who was the nation's "preeminent progressive"?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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When did WWI begin in Europe and America?

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1914, 1917

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How did America get involved in WWI?

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German submarine warfare - sinking of the Luisitania killed over 100 Americans

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Changes at home due to WWI:

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Income taxes, conscription of troops for a foreign war, management of the economy, massive propaganda and anti-sedition campaign

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In the 1920s. Rising of
Manufacturing output:
Per capita income:

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60%
1/3

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What time period was there
Rising interest in phychology, corperations were anti-union, women & minorities entered the workforce, commercial radio, aviation....

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1920s

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Woman who supported the beginning of birth control:

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Margaret Sanger