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.
 

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Love and Spy Letters of the American Revolution

Rachel Revere gave this letter and some money to a friend to deliver to her husband Paul Revere after his "Midnight Ride."  Rachel didn't know that her friend was a British spy!  He delivered the letter to the British and pocketed the money.

My Dear by Doctor Church I send a hundred & twenty five pounds / and beg you will take the best care of yourself and not / attempt coming in to this town again and if I have an / opportunity of coming or sending out anything or / any of the Children I shall do it pray **** keep up / your spirits and trust your self and us in the hands / of a good God who will take care of us tis all my / Dependance for vain is the help of man aduie my / Love from your /affectionate R. Revere

British troops captured this letter from Benjamin Tallmadge as he was carrying it from George Washington to the Culper Gang.  The letter illustrates the spy network which worked in New York City and Long Island alerting Washington of  British troop movements.

         New Windsor June 27th, 1779 / Sir, / I observe what you say respecting /your position at Bedford--and the fatigue / of the horse--with regard to the first, when / Bedford was pointed out, it was descriptive / only of a central place between the two Rivers / and as near the enemy as you could with / military prudence take post for the purpose / of [covering] the inhabitants, and preventing the / ravages of small parties. The judgment / of the officer commanding, is, under the / idea just [captured], to direct the [practices]. / [Sport] and choice of ground which ought to be / varied continually, while you re near / enough to the enemy to give assistance to / the people.--With respect to the second / matter I have only to add that I do not / wish to have the horse unnecessarily esc[-] / posed, or fatigued, but if in the discharge / of accustomed duties they should get worn /down, there is no help for it.-Col. Maylans / Regiment is on its march to join you, which / will render the duty [carrier] and Your Troops / there more respectable.-- / The inclosed contains matter for our knowledge only.- / I am Sir- / Your Mo. Respect. [Servant] / Gon. Washington 

Abigail Adams (Nov 11, 1744 - Oct 28, 1818) advocated an expanded role for women in public affairs during the formative days of the United States. Married to John Adams (1797-1801) she was an invaluable partner to him as he developed his political career, culminating in the presidency of the United States.  In 1761, the then 17-year-old Abigail Smith spent hours together with her 26-year-old suitor, John Adams.  Their hours apart were consumed with thoughts of each other, expressed in playful and passionate love letters.  The intimacy of their courtship remained throughout their marriage, as did their copious letters. 

From their initial courtship in 1761, through their time as President and First Lady over three decades later, the couple shared insights on their lives and times through their letters. John and Abigail Adams wrote over a thousand letters to each other during the months (sometimes years) that John was away from home helping found a new nation.

As was the custom of the time, they adopted pen names:

• Abigail was Diana, after the Roman goddess of the moon and later she adopted the pen name, Portia, wife of the great Roman politician Brutus.
• John adopted the name, Lysander, after the Spartan war hero.

John often addressed his letters to his "Dear Adoreable" or "My dear Diana," or “My Dear Portia,” but Abigail addressed her letters to John, as she would for the rest of her life, to "My Dearest Friend."

My Dearest Friend,

…should I draw you the picture of my Heart, it would be what I hope you still would Love; tho it contained nothing new; the early possession you obtained there; and the absolute power you have ever maintained over it; leaves not the smallest space unoccupied. I look back to the early days of our acquaintance; and Friendship, as to the days of Love and Innocence; and with an indescribable pleasure I have seen near a score of years roll over our Heads, with an affection heightened and improved by time -- nor have the dreary years of absence in the smallest degree effaced from my mind the Image of the dear untitled man to whom I gave my Heart...