Prentice Hall US History Chapter 14-17 Review
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ellis and Angel Island | where immigrants were processed before entering the US |
| mass transit | public systems that can carry large numbers of people inexpensively |
| mass transit (impact) | kept cities from slipping into chaos or pollution |
| yellow journalism | What kind of writing relies on exaggeration to attract readers? |
| subjective | Is yellow journalism objective or subjective? |
| Evening World | What was the second paper written by Joseph Pulitzer? |
| Morning Journal | What paper was written by William Randolph Hearst? |
| urban dwellers | What was the audience Pulitzer and Randolph Hearst catered to and made them similar? |
| Mark Twain | Who made up the term "Gilded Age"? |
| rotten core covered with gold paint | What ideas about American Society did the term Gilded Age express? |
| factory clothes, pre-packaged food | What are 2 inventions that improved a woman's life during the Gilded Age? |
| bicycles | What form of transportation was a hit in 1893 with consumers and doctors? |
| amusement parks, sports, vaudeville | Name three types of new entertainment. |
| Doing | Did John Dewey believe in a class doing or order is better? |
| Indians | Which side raised the American flag at the Sand Creek Massacre? |
| Colorado | In what state was the Sand Creek Massacre located? |
| use of public facilities | Name one of the rights the Civil Rights Act of 1875 gave Blacks (not voting). |
| Supreme Court (Judicial) | Which branch of government helped the states not enforce the Civil Rights act of 1875? |
| Yes | Did the Dawes Act give natives up to 160 acres of land not to be sold for 25 years? |
| Custard | Who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn? |
| Crazy Horse | Who killed the person who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn? |
| Chief Joseph | Who was the Nes Perce chief who was not captured for over 1,000 miles and said "I will fight no more forever"? |
| promontory point utah | Where did the 2 sets of railroad tracks meet? |
| homestead act | Dig a well, build a road, and live there for 5 years made up the three components of what 160 acre land deal? |
| lynching | What was the topic of the 3 pamphlets Ida B. Wells wrote? |
| white men | Who ran Ida B. Wells out of her town? |
| lost their land | What happened to the Mexican Americans in the State of New Mexico during the Gilded Age? |
| Booker T. Washington | Who was a famous African American leader who was also a teacher and promoted the need to be patient and not fight for rights? |
| spoils system | What kind of corruption did Civil Service help bring the end to? |
| Popular Grassroots People's Party | What was the other name of the Populists party? |
| women's suffrage, free silver, govt owned railroads | What were the three goals that the Populists wanted to accomplish? |
| grandfather laws | allowed anyone to vote if their ancestors voted prior to 1866 |
| muckrakers | writers focused on telling the truth no matter how ugly it was |
| Upton Sinclair | Who wrote "The Jungle"? |
| the jungle | What book talked about changing the unsanitary conditions of the stockyard industry? |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | Who helped create NAACP? |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| pure food and drug act | prevented the mislabeling of food and medicine and the interstate shipment of impure food |
| compulsory education laws | made it so that kids have to attend school |
| square deal | kept big companies from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor |
| World | What was the first paper written by Joseph Pulitzer? |
| answer their own questions | What skill did John Dewey believed students learned through his belief system? |
| literacy tests | tested for understanding and denied African Americans the right to vote for lack of education opportunities |
| defacto | subtle discrimination |
| dejure | obvious and blatant discrimination |
| cowardice, mourning | What are the two reasons that Native Americans would cut their hair? |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | Who said: "trade education can create workers, but it cannot create men"? |
| 1869 | What year were the 2 railroad sets connected crossing the United States? |
| tabloids section | What part of the modern newspaper did both Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst put to use in their papers? |
| 1861-1865 | What years did the Civil War take place in? |
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