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Post Civil War-World War 1
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History
Undergraduate 2
02/05/2015

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Term
How were politics, both in the North and the South, corrupt to win an election? 3 parts
Definition

1)getting people to vote in the name of a dead person

2)destroying or "losing" ballots boxes before votes were counted

3)stuffing ballots after polls closed, giving whiskey or other rewards for voting for a partie's candidate

Term
How were politics, in the North and South, corrupt after getting into office? 3 parts
Definition

1) accepting bribes

2)taking a kickback from a builder for approving that builder for a government contract

3)embezzeling government money, taking government supplies

Term

Name the US Government Policy towards Native Americans with these clues:

-tribes that wouldn't become civilized should move west of Mississippi

-become civilized by making money by farming and trading

-Andrew changed this to mean moving all tribes West of Mississippi

-1833 all tribes, except Seminole and Cherokee, moved to Oklahoma

-1838, Trail of Tears, Cherokee sent to Oklahoma

-1840s, Seminole War Ends, were moved to Oklahoma

 

 

 

 

Definition
One Big Reservation
Term

Name the US Government Policy towards Native Americans with these clues:

-each tribe was given definite boundaries

-"for as long as waters run and grass shall grow" treaty with Government

-Many tribes refused, going off reservation to hunt buffalo

-Whites moved on to reservations, asked for protection

-Natives pushed out of Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado

-1864, Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado Militia(John Chivington) attacks Indians led by Chief Black Kettle

-Great Sioux War, Fetterman's troops massacred by Red Cloud's warriors

-Homestead Act, caused settlers out west, conflict between them and natives

Definition
Concentration Policy
Term

Name the US Government Policy towards Native Americans with these clues:

-isolate Native Americans

-teach Native Americans how to farm

-to civilize Native Americans, make them more like whites

-Black Hills of the Dakotas

-Indian Territory(Oklahoma)

-Government agents for each tribe to supervise, advocate for Natives is Government, most were corrupt

-US Calvary sent out West to control Natives 1/5 were Buffalo Soldiers

Definition
Small Reservation Policy
Term
Former slaves and free blacks who were in the US Calvary:
Definition
Buffalo Soldiers
Term

Name the US Government Policy towards Native Americans with these clues:

-used education, land policy and federal law to eradicate tribal society

-taught farming skills, forced Natives to speak English, cut hair, wear clothing of whites, end tribal ceremonies

-Dawes Act part of this

Definition
Assimiliation Policy
Term
                                 would cause natives to get their lands back. Called on the spirits to help you in some way.
Definition
Ghost dances (ritual dances)
Term
How did the Dawes act hurt tribal life?
Definition
-divided tribal land
Term
How did the slaughter of buffalo herds hurt tribal life?
Definition
-it ruined their heritage
Term
What are the two things said to have killed the Native American Culture?
Definition

The Dawes Act

 

Slaughter of Buffalo

Term
List the 6 major reasons why Whites moved West in the 1870s and 1880s.
Definition

1)adventure

2)escape factory or city life

3)health (dessert to heal TB and Asthma)

4)religious freedom

5)wealth

6)to get land (for free through Homestead Act)

Term
To move west settlers needed      1     . Most settlers moved west during periods of     2     .
Definition

1)money

2)prosperity

Term
1)Who went to the mining frontier? 3 parts
Definition

-Single Males

-Prostitutes

-Foreigners (Chinese, Chileans, Peruvians)

 

 

Term

Mining Frontier:

Many foreignerscame as cooks, tailors, blacksmiths, etc., to make    1    by providing services to the    2    and    3  

Definition

1)money

2)prosepectors 

3)miners

Term
Who was missing from the Mining Frontier? 2 parts
Definition

-Families 

-Respectable women

Term
Who went to the Cattle Frontier? 3 parts
Definition

- White Men (50%)

- Free Black Men (25%)

- Mexican Men (25%)

Term
Who trained the cowboys on the cattle frontier?
Definition
-Mexicans and Argentinians
Term
Who was missing from the Cattle Frontier? 2 parts
Definition

-Women

-Families

Term
Who went to the farming frontier?
Definition

-Immigrants (mostly single and from Ireland, Canada, Germany and Scandinavian countries)

-Families from east of the Mississippi

Term
Some southern leaders wanted to diversify the South's Economy, adding industries to agriculture. This was known as:
Definition
The "New South" effort
Term
When did most of the ex-Confederate states fully industrialize and why?
Definition
-World War 2, because better weather allowed for year round production of war materials.
Term
What was done in the South to keep Blacks from voting after 1877? 4 parts
Definition

1)literacy tests

2)property ownership was required

3) poll tax

4) Grandfather clause

Term
US Supreme Court upheld Louisiana statute requiring "seperate but equal" acommadations on railroads. Seperate but equal was made constitutional. Which court case is this?
Definition
Plessy vs Ferguson
Term
What was the purpose of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws?
Definition
To keep African Americans from voting and keep them segregated.
Term
What factors contributed to US industrialization? 8 parts
Definition

1)abundant natural resources

2)abundant labor supply

3)markets in US

4)Transportation

5)capital

6)technological process

7)entrepreneurs

8)little government interference

Term
Where did Industrialization start ang grow in the US?
Definition
Started in the North and moved to the West.
Term
From where did most immigrants come before the 1880s?
Definition
Northern and Western Europe
Term
From where did most immigrants come after the 1880s?
Definition
Southern and Eastern Europe (Catholics and Jews)
Term
How did Americans feel about Immigrants after 1880?
Definition
Didnt like them because they looked different and competed for housing and jobs.
Term
How did Industry owners feel about Unions? 2 parts
Definition

-they were against American tradition of individual advancement

-linked with anarchism and revolution, owners didn't like it

Term
Who joined and how many joined early US Unions?
Definition
Skilled workers, very few of them.
Term

 

Part of early US common law (women could not own land in their own name or keep their children if the father died or left), was revised in the 1890s. No longer were wives the chattel of the husbands without legal control of their earnings, their property, or their children. In 1890 the National American Woman Suffrage Associations was formed. Susan B. Anthony was a major leader in the movement. These doctrines are associated with:

Definition
Femme Couvert
Term
Society evolves slowly adapting to the enviornment. Some people are fitter then others.Only the fittest should survive. Actions helping the poor or weak interferred with evolutionary process. These are all examples of:
Definition
Social Darwinism
Term
Church members need to fulfill their social duty by helping the poor and weak. This is an example of:
Definition
Social Gospel
Term
Politicians, often working as a group, who exchanged services for votes, where known as a...
Definition
Political Machine
Term
How were political machines corrupt? 3 parts
Definition

1) took money from city/county treasuries

2)had people vote in the name of those who had moved or died

3)made money from inside information

Term
Ocala Demands by the Populists. List the 8 provisions/ideas they had.
Definition

1)allow farmers to store crops in Government warehouses(while making 80% of their value before they are sold)

2)allow free coinage of silver

3)end protective tariffs

4)graduated federal income tax

5)direct elections of US Senators

6)have the federal government own railroads, banks and telegraph lines

7)immigration restrictions

8)prohibit large holding companies

Term
What 3 of the 8 Ocala Demands were eventually passed?
Definition

1)graduated income tax (16th amendment)

2)direct election of US Senators by state voters (17th amendment)

3)Crop loans to farmers and storing of crops in warehouses.

Term
A state that had rapid population growth so they had large number of electoral votes. There was no way to predict which party this state would vote for.This is known as a....
Definition
Swing state
Term
What caused the Depression of 1893? 3 parts
Definition

1)US economy expanded to rapidly

2)companies produced too much

3)farmers and businesses unable to pay loans

Term
Who helped the unemployed during the Depression?
Definition
Churches
Term
Why were rural residents hurt more by churches helping in the Depression then urban residents?
Definition
More churches to help the needy in the city/urban areas.
Term
What was the political impact of the Depression in 1893?
Definition
Republicans won big in 1894 since Democrats were blamed for the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
Term
List 3 social impacts of the Depression in 1893.
Definition

1)Support grew for the federal government to help the poor and unemployed

2)more women and children could find work because they made less then men

3)realism in literature became the literary trend

Term

Which countires were in the Imperialism Race? 7 parts



Which 2 countries joined the race later? 

Definition

1)Great Britain

2)France

3)Germany

4)Portugal

5)Italy 

6)Belgium

7)Spain

 

A)USA

B)Japan

Term
What were the areas in which the countries in the Imperialism Race competed to colonize/control? 4 parts
Definition

1)Africa

2)Southeast Asia

3)Pacific Islands

4)China

Term
What were the characteristics of Manifest Destiny before the Civil War? 4 parts
Definition

1)areas touched existing territories of the US

2)Most areas were only partly settled

3)US intended new settlements to become States

4)Expanded to build these into permanent settlements/farms

Term
What were the characteristics of new expansion/Imperialism? 4 parts
Definition

1)expanded into thickly populated areas

2)new areas didn't touch US territory

3)didn't intend to make these areas US states

4)areas to become navy bases and coaling stations/trading and commerece centers

Term
What was the philosophical justification for Expansionism/Imperialism? 4 parts
Definition

1)US needed a new frontier

2)new markets for US products (farmers/industrialists)

3)Social Darwinism

4)new areas are given Anglo-Saxon superiority (democracy gives everyone rights and freedoms)

Term
List 3 reasons that caused Americans to want war with Spain to free Cuba.
Definition

1)Yellow Journalism

2)de Loma Letter

3)USS Maine

Term
What caused the US to declare war with Spain?
Definition

USS Maine explosion that was blamed on Spain.

 

(actually was an accident)

Term
This person moved natives to camps were unsanitary conditions killed many natives (yellow fever and dysentary)
Definition
Weyler
Term
Burning the crops rebels might eat or burning the areas where rebels might hide is known as...
Definition
Scorch-the-Earth Tactics
Term
Surprising attack then returning to hiding instead of staying for a prolonged battle is known as...
Definition
Hit and Run tactics
Term
This stressed the sensational and tried to make news, even by using emotional language. American's sympathy for Cuba's freedom grew because of this:
Definition
Yellow Journalism
Term
A letter by the Spanish ambassador de Loma in Washington was sent to a friend. In it de Loma called President McKinley names like weak,bidder for admiration of the crowd.
Definition
De Loma Letter
Term
a battleship was sent to Havana in Jan. 1898 as a gesture of strength and good will toward the Cubans after Spanish army officers led riots in Havana against the local Cuban leaders. This battleship exploded and opened the hull killing many sailors.
Definition
USS Maine
Term
Theodore Roosevelt recruited friends from Harvard, Yale, New York, and Boston (athletic background) to fight with men from the West (cowboys, hunters, sheriffs) This group was called:
Definition
Rough Riders
Term
the Spanish name for Blacks from the US Cavalry who fought in Cuba. US military authorities believed Blacks had a natural immunity to the tropical climate and diseases
Definition
Smoked Yankees
Term

 

leader of the rebels and followers helped Americans defeat the Spanish, was the leader, used guerrilla tactics, was captured in May 1901.

Definition
Emilio Aguinaldo
Term
What 5 problems did the United States have at the start of the Spanish-American War?
Definition

1)Army and Navy were unprepared

2)Too many volunteers to equip and train

3)Guardsman and volunteers were issued rifles with black powder (gave away position)

4)Canned food was new and it wasn't properly canned causing illnesses

5)Tropical diseases, some soldiers had wool uniforms

Term
How were African American soldiers treated inside the US as they left for war?
Definition
While traveling they were attacked in the south when the trains stopped. There were riots.
Term
3 reasons why some wanted to annex the Phillipines.
Definition

1)missionaries wanted to convert the Filipino people

2)merchants/industrialists saw the Phillipines as their key to markets in China and Asia

3)fruits of war

Term
4 reasons why Anti-Imperialists opposed annexing the Phillipines.
Definition

1)violated US principals of independence and past traditions of annexation

2)Filipinos were different race so they shouldn't be assimilated

3)Tyranny/abuse of freedom overseas would bring tyranny against the US

4)Cheap laborers would come to US making life hard for US workers

Term
Why did the Filipinos go to war against the US?
Definition
Filipino guerillas proclaimed their independence and established local governments.
Term
Describe war methods used by the US in the Phillipines.4 parts
Definition

-Maintain a holding action agaisnt the spanish

-destroy Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor

-damaging spanish merchant marine vessels and shipments

-bothering Spanish colonists

Term
What were the provisions of the US's Open Door Policy? 3 parts
Definition

1)repsect the rights/priveleges of any nation to work/trade in your sphere

2)Chinese government collected tariffs in all spheres

3)have no discrimination between nations regarding port dues and rail rates

Term
The Open Door Policy applied to which country?
Definition
China
Term
What are 2 ways to end a guerilla war?
Definition
Seperate the civilians and cut off the food supply.
Term
3 ideas associated with the Progressives.
Definition

1)Progress depends on knowledge

2)Hire experts to find the best answers

3)Collective action is best

Term
3 charcteristics of the Progressives.
Definition

1)Education

2)Laws

3)Society

Term

 

looks for cause and effect, says practical lessons are to be learned from the causes and effects. Ideas that work become TRUTH. **People shape environment and people are shaped by environment.

Definition
Pragmatism
Term
11 areas of reforms pioneered by Progressives
Definition

1)Job Safety

2)Child Labor

3)Temperance

4)Widow's Benefits

5)City Sanitation

6)Minimum Wages

7)City Government Reforms

8)Control of Corporate Abuses

9)Workers Compensation

10)Maximum Hours

11)Women's Suffrage

Term
What were Karl Marx's ideas concerning workers/proletariat and their "world revolution"?
Definition
-Called for workers to unite in a world wide revolution to overthrow capitalists.
Term
What ideas were used by Socialists in the US?
Definition
Socialists in the US promised progressive reforms rather then threatening to overthrow capitalism.
Term

How did Karl Marx's ideas differ from Socialist's in America's ideas?

 

Why were they different?

Definition

Revolution vs No Revolution

 

Marx's idea of revolution was not accepted well in the USA.

Term
What is the 16th amendment?
Definition
allows Congress to levy an income tax. Federal Income Tax
Term
What is the 17th amendment?
Definition
Direct election of US Senators by voters
Term
What is the 18th amendment?
Definition
Prohibition
Term
What is the 19th amendment?
Definition
Woman's suffrage
Term
What happened to Japan's strength/power betweeen 1900 and 1921?
Definition
It got stronger and stronger. Wanted to industrialize and become wealthy.
Term
5 problems in Europe before World War 1.
Definition

1)imperialism overseas

2)rivalries to influence new nations that might form in Europe (Balkans)

3)increased military strength in several nations, arms race between England and Germany

4)secret alliances

5)national boundaries that did not agree with boundaries for ethnic groups

Term
June 28, 1914 Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina, by a member of a secret Serbian group that supported Slavic nationalism and opposed Austria. The assassin was not working for the Serbian government. This event sparked/started what?
Definition
World War 1
Term
Why did the war between Austria and Serbia grow?
Definition
Austria wanted Serbia to apologize. It went back and forth, both were getting advise for other countries.
Term
Who were most of the soldiers in World War 1?
Definition
Civilians drafted to war.
Term
When was World War 1 fought in Europe?
Definition
1914-1918
Term
When did the US fight in World War 1?
Definition
1917-1918
Term
What was Germany's plan to defeat the Allied Powers (Schlieffen Plan)?
Definition
Capture Paris. Attack Russia and Britain will surrender.
Term
How did the US/President Wilson respond to the outbreak of war in Europe?
Definition
Wilson declared the US neutral and impartial.
Term
What where the accepted rules of war as World War 1 began? 4 parts
Definition

1)belligerent countries must not go through a neutral country

2)Don't attack passenger ships/must protect civilians

3)If you capture a capital of a country you have captured the entire country

4)Subs/Uboats must surface and give the targeted ship time to evacuate its crew before destroying that ship

Term
Which right did the US want for neutral countries during WWI?
Definition
Neutral countries could trade non war materials with any and all belligerent countries.
Term
Which 3 countries led the Central Powers?
Definition
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire/Turkey
Term
What 6 advantages did the Central Powers have in WWI?
Definition

1)countries were close together

2)Germany was prepared for modern war

3)Germany had a well trained army

4)Germany had superior weapons

5)Fought in enemy territory, not on their homeland

6)Central powers had better lines of communication

Term
What were the 6 major Allied Powers?
Definition

Great Britain

France

Russia

Italy 

Japan

USA

Term
What advantages did the Allied powers have in WWI?4 parts
Definition

1)had more soldiers

2)had more industries to make war goods

3)Britain controlled the seas to get food and raw materials/blockaded the Central Powers

4)Allies were on both sides of the Central Powers

Term
Why did Progressives want the US to stay out of WWI?2 parts
Definition

1)Thought war would end reforms in the US

2)Blamed greedy businessman in the War

Term
What were the 2 fronts in WWI?
Definition
Western and Eastern
Term
Where was the Western Front in WWI?
Definition
Switzerland to the North Sea
Term
Where was the Eastern Front in WWI?
Definition
Russia to Germany, Baltic Sea to Black Sea
Term
Where did the British blockade the German navy? 2 places
Definition

The North Sea

Mouth of the Mediterranean

Term
Was intercepted by the British. Telegram was from Germany's Ambassador Zimmerman to leaders of Mexico promising Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California back to Mexico at the end of the war if Mexico became an ally of Germany.
Definition
Zimmerman Telegram
Term
Why did the US declare war on the Central Powers? 2 parts
Definition

-Zimmermann Telegram

-German sank 5 armed US merchant ships

Term
What caused a change in Russia's role in WWI?
Definition
Communist party gained control after 1917 revolution in Russia.
Term
What was the change instituted by Lenin in Russia after the communist party took control?
Definition
Signed a peace treaty with Germany and left the war.
Term
Who authored the 14 points?
Definition
President Wilson
Term
What did Great Britain and France want done to Germany at the end of WWI?
Definition
To disarm them and cripple them.
Term
What was fulfilled in the Treaty of Paris 1919 that Wilson wanted? 4 parts
Definition

1)restore Belgium

2)restore captured areas of France

3)recreate historic Poland

4)start an international organization(League of Nations) to settle future disputes

Term
Which ideas from the 14 points were ignored in the Treaty of Paris? 5 parts
Definition

1)no secret treaties

2)freedom of seas

3)free trade

4)reduce size of standing armies

5)no colonies captured in war would be kept

Term

How were African Americans impacted by WWI at home?

 

In europe?

Definition

-experienced more racial freedom in north, tensions grew over housing in the North due to shortages

 

Black soldiers were segregated and had white commanders. During intense fighting white officers might be killed. Allowed field promotions for Black soldiers.

Term
What was the Great Migration?
Definition
African Americans moving North to take jobs in military plants.
Term
How was the relationship between US government and business affected by WWI? 2 parts
Definition

-Businessman ran many government war agencies

-Businesses worked with government to expand production

Term
Why didn't the US Senate ratify the Treaty of Paris?
Definition
All 3 groups of politicians feared that by joining the League of Nations, the US would be pulled into future wars.
Term
How did most Americans fell about the League of Nations?
Definition
Favored it and thought the US should join. Congress disagreed.
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