8th CCDS SS Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alice Paul | head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking. |
| Balkans | powder keg of Europe, active in WWI b/c of nationalism, against Austria Hungary, where Franz Ferdinand |
| imperialism | policy of powerful countries seeking to control the economic and political affairs of weaker countries or regions |
| protectorate | a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs |
| Josiah Strong | author of Our Country, on Anglo-Saxon superiority; a popular American minister in the late 1800s who linked Anglo-Saxonism to Christian missionary ideas |
| sugarcane | Cuba was one of Spain's oldest colonies and its sugarcane plantations generated great wealth for the Spanish. 1/3 of the world's sugar came from Cuba in the mid 1800s |
| William Randolph Hearst | A leading newspaperman of his times, he ran The New York Journal and helped create and propagate "yellow (sensationalist) journalism." |
| Joseph Pulitzer | creator of the "New York World;"cut the prices so people could afford it; featured color comics and yellow journalism |
| jingoism | During the 19th century in the United States, journalists called this attitude spread-eagleism. This patriotic belligerence was intensified by the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor that led to the Spanish-American War of 1898. |
| guerrilla warfare | a "hit and run" type of warfare, a hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war; fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes |
| George Dewey | U.S. naval commander who led the American attack on the Philippines |
| San Juan Heights | a series of hills overlooking the main road to Santiago, which were attacked by American soldiers during the Spanish-American War |
| Immigrant | a person who comes into a country to live there |
| Alexander Graham Bell | United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) |
| Fridge Car | the device invented in 1877 to help transport fresh meat |
| Andrew Carnegie | he was first to use the Bessemer Process which made steel cheaply and efficiently and it changed the steel industry |
| entrepreneur | risk taker/starts ventures within the economic system of capitalism |
| laissez-faire | a policy based on the idea that bovernment sould play as small a role as possible in the ecomony |
| tariff | a government tax on imports or exports to protect US manufacturers |
| Anglo-Saxonism Who | The US and Britain |
| Anglo-Saxonism What | The idea that English speaking nations had a superior character, ideas, and systems of government, and were destined to dominate the planet |
| Anglo-Saxonism When | 1898 |
| Anglo-Saxonism Where | Us and Britain |
| Anglo-Saxonism Why | Imperialism was spreading economic and political domination of strong nations over weaker nations and leaders; such as, John Stevens on America taking over Hawaii, and minister, Josiah Strong influenced American views |
| Anglo-Saxonism Sign | Americans began to see the nation as a super power and they felt compelled to expand overseas to protect their investments and because they felt they were divinely commissioned. The result was the taking of Hawaii and forced trade with Japan |
| Rough Riders ID-Who | US volunteer cavalry unit from the American West, They were a mix of miners and law officers. The commander as Colonel Leonard Wood and second in command was future president, Theodore Roosevelt |
| Rough Riders ID-What | On foot, they attacked Kettle Hill in the war against the Spanish in Cuba, and after seizing the Hill, they captured San Juan Hill |
| Rough Riders ID-When | June 14, 1898 |
| Rough Riders ID-Where | east of the city of Santiago on the southern coast of Cuba |
| Rough Riders ID-Why | A Spanish fleet occupied Santiago Harbor protecting powerful shore-based guns. The Americans planned to capture those guns to drive the Spanish fleet out of the harbor |
| Rough Riders ID-Sign | Without the Rough Riders help, the war would not have been won soon after. The capture of San Juan Hill and Kettle Hill made it possible for the Americans to advance and win the war. |
| Name two of the three rules or restrictions that kept African Americans from voting and how did they the rules affect them? | Poll Tax, to have to pay a fine which african americans couldnt afford. grandfather clause, had to have an ancestor that voted in 1866, the 15th amendment wasnt passed till 1870 |
| What did the corset represent in the fight for women's suffrage? | were suffocating by the government and men |
| What is a square deal and why was this so important to Roosevelt? | is a compromise, and roosevelt wanted peace |
| Newland Reclamations Act ID-Who? | Teddy Roosevelt |
| Newland Reclamations Act ID-What? | an act saying the government will pay for irrigation and land development |
| Newland Reclamations Act ID-When? | 1902 |
| Newland Reclamations Act ID-Where? | Western states of US |
| Newland Reclamations Act ID-Why? | there was a scares of water and hoarding of the water |
| Newland Reclamations Act ID-Sign? | The large transformation of the West and the new funds for irrigation |
| Ida B. Wells ID-Who? | Ida Be. Wells |
| Ida B. Wells ID-What? | Wrote a newspaper called the souls of black folks |
| Ida B. Wells ID-When? | 1892 |
| Ida B. Wells ID-Where? | Tennessee Chicago |
| Ida B. Wells ID-Why? | To help stop lynching by telling the people of American how horrible it is |
| Ida B. Wells ID-Sign? | With her newspaper she lowered the number of lynching drasticly |
| The Jungle ID-Who? | Upton Sinclair |
| The Jungle ID-What? | A book he wrote about the slaugter houses |
| The Jungle ID-When? | 1906 |
| The Jungle ID-Where? | Chicago |
| The Jungle ID-Why? | to tell the people what is really in the meat they are buying |
| The Jungle ID-Sign? | The meat and pure food and drug act were made |
| Sharecroppers | Landless farmers who had to hand over a large portion of thier crops to cover the cost of rent, seed, tools, and other supplies |
| Jim Crow Laws | when a man named Jim Crow wanted everything equal |
| Fifteenth Amendment | the right to vote basis of race and color |
| Poll Tax | have to pay a fine to be able to vote |
| Literacy Test | and writing and reading test and if you passed you could vote |
| Grandfather Clause | anyone who had ancestors who voted in 1867 could vote, weakened the 15th amendment, decreased voting power of blacks |
| Segregation | separation of the races |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | (1896) The Court ruled that segregation was not discriminatory (did not violate black civil rights under the Fourteenth Amendemnt) provide that blacks received accommodations equal to those of whites. |
| Booker T. Washington | an accommodation to the voting rights of African Americans |
| W.E.B DuBois | an agitation to the voting rights of African Americans |
| lynching | executions without proper court proceedings |
| Atlanta Compromise | the speech given by Booker T. Washington at the Atlanta Cotton Expo was known as this compromise; his major philosophy in this was accommodation, not integration; he felt that blacks needed to strive to be totally successful and yet totally separate from the white community |
| NAWSA | a strong group of women fighting for the rights to vote |
| Temperance Movement | an elimination or moderation of alcohol |
| suffrage | the right to vote, a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution |
| 19th Amendment | was the rights for women to vote |
| Alice Paul | head of NAWSA's congressional committee |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | Leader of NAWSA in 1915 |
| Northern Securities | controlled all the railroads in US |
| UMW | a union of miners that went on strike |
| Square Deal | a compromise between to parties |
| arbitration | a settlement imposed by an outside party |
| Meat Inspection Act | Federals check on slaughter houses for cleanliness and keeping of meat |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs |
| WCTU | (Women's Christian Temperance Union) group organized in 1874 that worked to ban the sale of liquor in the U.S. |
| Slavs | the group of people in southeastern Europe who were the same ethnic group as the Russians |
| USS Maine | a U.S. warship that mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba on February 15, 1898 |
| consumer price index | Shows changes in the average prices of goods and services purchased by consumers over a period of time |
| jingoism | fanatical patriotism |
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