History Midterm
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Tenements | a multi-family urban dwelling; usually consists of about seven people in a room the size of a bathroom |
| Ellis Island | place for non citizen immigrants, for inspections and examination, chief immigration station on the east coast |
| Angel Island | place for noncitizen chinese and asian immigrants, questioned and confined |
| Assimilation | a minority groups adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture |
| Nativism | favoring interest of nativ-born people; the belief that native-born are better than foreign-born |
| Laissez Faire | let pass;, the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs |
| Upton Sinclaire - The Jungle | book to portray life of an immigrant; also exposed meat packing industry,poverty, bad living, and working conditions |
| Muckrakers | magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life |
| Business Cycle | fluctuations during long term growth - from rapid growth to stagnation and decline |
| Progressives | reformers who wanted to make the government help fix problems with safety, opportunities, social welfare |
| 19th Amendment | law allowing women to vote; made men mad because women are bad in politics |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | a series of four laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States |
| Conscientious Objector | a person who refuses, on moral grounds, to participate in warfare |
| War Reparations | payments made by other countries to pay back for war damages |
| Treaty of Versailles | 1919 peace treaty at the end of WWI which established new nations, borders, and war reparations; made Germany take the blame for WWI and pay 33 billion for the damages;created the League of Nations |
| League of Nations | an association of nations established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace; an American idea but they didn't join |
| Push Factors (Name 3) | factors that drove immigrants out of their country(s) - laws, jobs, working conditions|if there were no factors there would be no immigrants |
| Pull Factors (Name 3) | factors that brought immigrants to America - working conditions, opportunity, democracy|if there were no factors no one would want to come here |
| Ellis Island Exams | called the six second quiz; involved small pox checks, checks for any diseases, asked if they had any money| if not for the exams there would be famine and hobos everywhere |
| Immigrant Working Conditions | low wages, work for a long time, diseases |
| Two Factors That Led to Industrialization | land growth-tracters, lawn mowers, crop feeder planes, etc. And help with work-machines moving stuff on an assembly line, typewriter, etc. |
| Urbanization | the growth of cities; industrialization made cities grow |
| What are the 4 causes of WWI? "M.A.I.N." | Militarism - Alliance Systems - Imperialism - Nationalism |
| Problems with the Treaty of Versailles and How it helped cause WWII | took germanys money which led to the rise of Hitler and WWII |
| Isolationism | opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries |
| Capitalism | an economic system based on private property and free enterprise |
| Communism | an economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property |
| Describe the economic boom in the 1920s. | things became more expensive because the product got better, more technology came out from industrialization, the making, selling, and buying the new product cost more than usual |
| Primary Source = 3 Examples | Original documents - diaries, speeches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, news film footage, autobiographies, official records; creative works - poetry, drama, novels, music, art; relics or artifacts - pottery, furniture, clothing, buildings=Diary of Anne Frank, the Constitution of Canada, artifacts at a museum |
| Secondary Source = 3 Examples | publications - textbooks, magazine articles, histories, criticisms, commentaries, encyclopedias= Webster's dictionary,school text book, article in the new york times |
| Great Migration and its effects on cities | the movement of 6 million blacks out of the Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West; more jobs were taken, less resources, less space |
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