Interesting Fact

The first people to protest in front of the White House were women suffragists!

Unit 4&5 Study guide

UNIT 4&5 Quiz

Vocabulary
1. Palmer Raids
2. Open Door Policy
3. Moral Diplomacy
4. Consumerism
5. Fundamentalism
6. Scopes Trial
7. Kellogg Briand Pact
8. Dawes Plan
9. Teapot Dome Scandal
10.  communism
 
What is yellow journalism.

11.   What is it when European countries or the USA take over other parts of the world?

12.   What was Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick Policy" that he described as "speak softly and carry a big stick" about?

13.  What was Taft's Dollar Diplomacy about?

14.  Where did the Unites States start a revolution to build a canal in Central America?

15.  What caused the Red Scare?

16.  What did the ACLU do and why did they start it in the 1920s?

17.  What did Marcus Garvey want to do?

18.  What Act made drinking alcohol illegal and lead to a rise in gangsters, speakeasies and bootlegging

19.  The rise of African American writers and artists in New York was what Renaissance?

20.  What Amendment passed in 1920 increased how many people could vote...hint hint increased the voters by half of the population!

Imperialism

Ms. Holland's Survival Study Guide

Key Terms

1.       Capitalism                               9.       Social Darwinism
2.       “The Jungle”                          10.   Muckrakers
3.       John Rockefeller                    11.   Tammany Hall
4.       19^th Amendment                     12.   Angel Island
5.       Urbanization                            13.   Chinese Exclusion Act
6.       Gospel of Wealth                    14.   Industrialization
7.       Andrew Carnagie                    15.   Labor Union
8.       Ellis Island

What to study:
1.       Rapid railroad construction increased industrialization/big business in America.
2.       Which part of America was least “industrialized” at the second half of the 1800s?
3.       Events that lead to the 19^th Amendment, what “disenfranchised” African Americans?  Disenfranchised means to cut out of the political system/government participation.
4.       Upton Sinclair’s book “The Jungle” exposed terrible conditions in the meat packing district of Chicago it lead to the passage of Meat Inspection Act.
5.       The Americanization movement of the early twentieth century sought (wanted to) assimilate (make the same) ethnic immigrant groups into the dominant culture (America, specifically white/Protestant America).
6.       Political Machines supported immigrants with essential services (like welfare: housing, food, jobs, cash) in exchange for political support.  Party Bosses were corrupt members who ran these political machines.
7.       Muckrakers were rebel journalists (news people) that exposed the corruption (evils) of American society, usually at the expense of the wealthy.
8.       Ford (of the car company Ford) was able to use greater efficiencies in production (produce things faster and cheaper) and decrease the cost of cars so more people could use them.  “Mass production” or the “assembly line” lead to products made for a cheaper price which made them available to more people (consumers).
9.       Social Gospel was founded by Christians looking to reconstruct (change) society for the better.  The idea that you give back to your community, which inspired people like Andrew Carnagie to donate to many MANY charities, libraries, education and other parts of the community
10.   The South was the least industrialized after the Civil War.
11.   The Progressives (a group of people that wanted to make policies that created a more equal society) worked to:
a)      create equality for women (which turned into the 19^th Amendment that gave women THE RIGHT TO VOTE!! Yea!),
b)      created child labor laws that stopped child labor and hence saw an increase of children in school!
c)       shortened the work day,
d)      fought bad living conditions (like tenements)
12.   The newest wave of immigrants to the United States during the period of the late 19^th Century were from:  Eastern & Southern Europe, Asia and Mexico13.   People moved to cities for the jobs they provided.
14.   Racism, the practice of segregation (separating whites and African Americans) and lynching and other violence against African Americans is what lead to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  The Tuskegee Institute was also created as a vocational school, when many schools in the South for African Americans were in very poor condition.
15.   Urbanization (increase of people in cities) and industrialization (growth of factories and businesses) were what progressives blamed for the corruption of people and government during this period.
16.   Trusts are a group of people who control an entire industry (for example own all the oil companies in the United States).  Teddy Roosevelt (TR) felt they were ___________________ and Wilson wanted to ______________________ to trusts.
17.   An initiative is when the people can propose a law and then vote on it. What is a referendum?  The Progressives liked these. because it put the power back into the hands of the voters and not in the hands of party bosses.
18.   Push Factors (what pushed immigrants out of their country): overcrowding, hunger, and war/conflict.
Pull Factors (what made them want to come to America): availability of jobs for people with no skills, letters written home about America being paved in gold (rich)/the American Dream, political and religious freedoms that did not exist in their own country
19.   If labor unions could not find a solution to a problem through negotiation they usually had a strike.