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Term
Civil War effect on South
Definition

rich -> poor 

freed slaves (slaves = money)

still married to cotton even though world demand dropped

Term
13th amendment
Definition
abolished slavery
Term
14th amendment
Definition

-equal protection of laws

-cannot abridge rights

-gives all equal rights instead of the previous: 

"congress shall make no law

Term
15th Amendment
Definition
full male sufferage
Term
what does GAPE stand for?
Definition
Guilded Age / Progressive Era
Term
what ended reconstruction?
Definition
the Compromise of 1877
Term

How was the guilded age a human 

Revolution?

Definition

americans only knew rural settings, switched 

in 2 generations to alot urban

associated with rise of power and modern american big business

Term
what is UII?
Definition

urbanization

industrialization

immigration

Term
what were the 3 big migrations of GAPE?
Definition

-from Europe

-to the west

-to cities

Term
Bessemer Process
Definition

way to make good steel faster/cheaper

-made skyscrapers, subways, etc possible

Term
Vertical Integration
Definition
own all of the processes in an industry
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horizontal integration
Definition
own all of one sector (one step) in an industry
Term
Urban Machine
Definition
gave political loyalty for protection or promise of a job
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the great railroad strike of 1877
Definition

workers wanted better cond./more money

ends reconstruction

violent -lots of fires

geographical spread across AM.

Term
Panic of 1819
Definition

Bank Collapses- 

panics occured every 20 yrs.

Term
crops and productivity effected by the panics
Definition

price crops dec. -> productivity inc.

-individually smart, collectively stupid

Term
share tenant
Definition

renter

pays part of crop as rent

Term
share cropper
Definition

wage employee

paid in crop

Term
Homestead Act 1862
Definition
160 acres of free land for new farming households
Term
RailRoad Enabling Act 1866
Definition
encourage RR to acquire and develope routes through western lands 
Term
Little BigHorn
Definition

-crush all resistence by 1880

"pyrrhic victory" -victory gained through a lot of loss

Term
Dawes Act 1887
Definition

"kill the indian, save the man"

-put indians on farms to humanize them

aka destroy their culture and replace it with ours

Term

Ghost Dance

and consequnces

Definition

indian dance for redemption of sin

-leads to massacre at wounded knee, bc

thinks indian fired gun at white man

Term
McCormick
Definition

machines for harvesting

-strike of skilled workers

Term

Gompers 

(impressive mustache)

Definition

AFL -american federation of labor

skilled workers in union

1866- federation of many unions

walk out and boycott

Term
Knights of Labor
Definition

first mass union

takes non skilled workers, women, blacks, etc.

successful

Term
Haymarket square
Definition

guilt by association

blames knights for bombing thing

Term

farmers out west

-problems 

Definition

end up in land with little rain and no idea how to farm. youre screwed

crops cost more to ship then price bought at

Term

Omaha Platform

3 issues

Definition

-public finance

-anti monopoly

-political reform

Term
omaha platform: public finance
Definition
wanted govt run savings banks & cropstorage ("subtreasury") and greenbacks to raise famr prices and boost national economy
Term
omaha platform: anti monopoly
Definition

govt owned RR's & telegraph

8 hr day

Term
Omaha platform: Political reform
Definition

secret ballot: initiative & referendum 

direct election of senators

Term
Dollar
Definition

standard agreed on.

decided should be conection b/n gold & dollar

Term
Panic of 1893
Definition

-"gold drain"

-caused by Sherman Silver Purchase Act

belived by cleveland and congress -> repeal act

doesnt help gold bleed and americans think cleveland is helping banks

 

Term
Compromise of 1877
Definition
gives presidency to republicans to build RR in south
Term
Progressives
Definition
=get organized!
Term

Jane Addams

 

Definition

poster girl for progressives

invented social work

Hull house-community

Term
Housewives alliance
Definition

EAT FRESH VEGGIES!!!!!!!!!

child labor, meat etc

Term
Fredrick Jackson Turner
Definition

frontier is gone

one thing we have in common/makes us diiferent

explains AM history slash socitety.

satisfied home market-> overseas trade market

Term
Child labor
Definition
head of household could only produce 80% of what is needed to be above poverty line
Term
Wyoming
Definition
1st womans vote
Term
TR
Definition

Republicsn ->Bull Moose Party

progressive

dissatisfied with Taft

Term
Progressive Amends 
Definition

16: income tax

17: direct election of senators (populist idea of 1892)

18: prohibition

19: womens sufferage

Term
Populists
Definition

nationalizing RR and telphone

-graduated income tax

-free unlimited coinage of silver and gold

direct elect of senators

Term
Jim Crow
Definition

legal segregation

-literacy tests

grandfather clause

Term
US v Reese decision 1876
Definition

blacks angry bc cant vote

govt said segregation not racist. 

based on states

Term

Williams v. Mississippi

(WMS v MS)

Definition

MS put poll tax & literacy test

-ruled constitutional bc applied to everyone even though discriminted against blacks

Term
Civil Rights act of 1875
Definition
no racial restriction of public goods
Term
urbanization gives way to suburbanization
Definition
1920s-> 1930s
Term
1924 immigration ends til 1954
Definition
Term
Plessy v Ferguson 
Definition
seperate but equal=constitutional
Term
Atlanta Compromise
Definition

Booker T Washington

-truse w/ jim crow and lynching

Term

Web DuBois 

 

Definition
find talented tenth=those capable of higher education
Term
booker T philosophy
Definition
cheese maker. know your place
Term
de facto
Definition

of the custo/habit/ practice

harder to change

north

Term
De Jure
Definition

of the law

process for changing

south

Term
The great migration 1916
Definition

blacks vote w feet

move to north bc no opportunity in south

Term
1885 congress of berlin
Definition
decides what Euro powers aquire lands in africa
Term
White Mans burden
Definition

-> empire

leading edeg of civilization , responsibility to spread civilization

Term
AT Mahan 1894
Definition

true power=sea power

create massive am navy

-the great white fleet

Term
General Weyler
Definition

sent by spanish to reapture cuba for spain 

-put non rebels in concentration camps to "keep safe"

Term
USS Maine explodes
Definition

250 am explodes

design flaw- blame on spanish

declaration of war on spain

Term
Teller Amend
Definition

attached to decl. of war

-us not in war to gain territory

Term
Platt amend
Definition

written into Cuban Constiitution

limits cuban treaty power & debt

garantees Us rights to intervene

got claims to Guatanamo Bay-naval base

Term
Treaty of Paris
Definition

settled AM/SP war

informal rulers of cuba without harming Monroe

filipines foothold in asian trade

Term
Empire Era
Definition
us become superpower
Term
US empire expands to
Definition

Cuba and philipines

phili- no like being ours. fight for 3 yrs

Term
Progressive Era dipolmacies
Definition

Gunboat diplomacy

dollar

mission

Term
Gunboat Diplomacy
Definition

TR

liberal use of military 

can cause probs down the line- make enemies

Term
DOllar Diplo
Definition

Taft

business first 

-investment of of resourses in underdeveloped 

Term
Mission Diplo
Definition

Wilson

self government-> leads to better life

Term
TR panama canal
Definition
help panamanians get away from columbia for claim to panama canal 
Term

TR corollary 

 

Definition

extension of Monroe Doc. 

AM= cops of west hemisphere

Term
Reallism/Real Politik
Definition

states seek own power and interest

external >internal- states behAVE  same way

order/stability can only come as result of balance of power

Term
Lib'ism/idealism/wilsonianism
Definition

states have common/shared goals

internal>external-consensual states->peace and prosperity

order/stability can only be torn in community of power

Term

WWI causes

 

Definition

alliance system

ARch Duke Franz Ferdinand-assassinated

Term
AMerican Point of View
Definition

"Thank God for Atlantic ocean" 

nuetraity/ be part of peace

Term

Lusitania

 

Definition

sunk by German U boat

germany apologizes and promise not to kill any more

Term
Why AM entered war
Definition

german unrestricted sub warfare

zimmerman telegram

Term
Wilson 14 points
Definition

1 open diplomacy

2 free seas

3 free trade

4 disarmament

5 self determination of ppls

14 League of Nations- work out other points peacefully

Term
CHUTZPAH 
Definition
ballsy
Term
Wilson and the League
Definition

wilson takes back flawed(compromised) treaty of versailles

AM wants to change ART 10-> bc kills monroe doc

League fails 1st at versailles, 2 at senate

league open without AM

Term
Epsionage Act 
Definition
illegal to interfere with draft
Term
Sedition Act
Definition

centralized

cant do anything against AM

Term
The Red Scare
Definition
commies and bomberman come to AM 1919-20
Term
Attorney General A mitchell Palmer
Definition

rampage commies in unions

FIND THE COMMIES!!

Term
Immigration Act 1921
Definition

turn back clock to 1910 

% ethnicity in 1910 = % allowed to migrate to US

Term
Immigration act 1924
Definition
turn back to 1890
Term
Carrie Nation
Definition

face of prohibition- barroom smasher 

US voted dry

Term
End of UII
Definition
prohibition
Term
3 KKKs 
Definition

against everyhting not white protestant AM 

solve through Activism 

protect 

Term
Harlem Renaissance
Definition

Black culture in New York 

art lit music culture

Term
Back To African Movement
Definition

MArcus Garvey 

 

Term

 

Taylorism

Definition
eliminate all inefficiencies in assembly line
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