Laws that were set in place to discriminate against black people.

Ex: You couldn't vote unless your grandfather did

African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River.

-American Activist Pap Singleton established African American settlement in Kansas.

A Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation. "Separate but equal"

Any adult citizen could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. Railroads helped support agricultural programs that made farms more successful.

Self-made multimillionaire and railroad tycoon.

Developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively. The Bessemer Process.

Lead the expansion of the American steel industry. Later became a philanthropist.

Made electricity safe. Production, Transmission, and application of electric power. Founded the first alternating current.

Invented the first telephone.

Who invented the lightbulb?

Founded the Standard Oil Company. First Great US business trust. Later turned his attention to charity.

First black woman millionaire in America with her hair products catered to black women's hair.

Founded by Carnegie. The rich have a responsibility to spend money to help the poor and to benefit the greater good.

People who typically employed ethically questionable methods to eliminate companies.

What did monopolies and trusts do?

When a business expands by acquiring a company that operates before or after them

Business grows by acquiring a similar company that's in the same stage as them to eliminate competition.

A journalist who was involved in social reform. Used photojournalism to show the struggles of the working class.

Founded women's international league for peace and freedom. Second Female to win the noble peace prize.

Period of economic growth as the US jumped to the lead in industrialization ahead of Britain.

Asham construction company chartered to build the union pacific railroad by financing it with unmarketable bonds.

A single powerful figure that was at the center and was bound together to a complex organization of lesser figures.

1st Person: An American politician. Boss of Tammany Hall. Democratic Party Political Machine.

2nd Person: A political cartoonist that depicted the corruption of political machines

Why did Guiteau assassinate Garfield?

Federal Government Jobs be awarded on the basis of merit. Made it unlawful to demote or fire people due to political differences.

Designed to regulate the railroad industry. Required that prices be reasonable and just.

Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890...

Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914...

Free coinage of silver, abolition of national banks, graduated income tax, government control of all communication and transportation, election of senetors by direct vote of the people.

Advocated bimetallism. Standardise value of dollar to silver. (A speach)

Fought monopolistic grain transport practices during the decade following the American civil war.

Select all which apply to the 'old' immigrants.

Select all that apply to 'new' immigrants.

The extreme dislike of immigrants by native born people.

US federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

Authorize government to break up tribal lands and only those who accepted this policy could be granted citizenship.

Certain people become more powerful becuase they are just better. "Survival of the fittest"

Applied Christian ethics to social problems

First president of the American Federation of labor: first enduring labor union.

One of the founding members of the industrial workers of the world. Five time canadite for the socialist party.

A group of miners seized a Iron compaany to protest the lease system of prisoners for their labor.

A labor contract between a union and an employer that deal with wages, hours, and other terms.

M. A. I. N.

Policy of extending a countries power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

"Speak softly and carry a big stick"

Minimize the use of threat or military force.

System in which support is given only to countries whose beliefs analogous to that of the nation.

The US would intervein as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the western hemisphere fufilled their obligation to international creditors.

Yellow Journalism (one of the causes of the Spanish American War) is...

Why did the US annex Hawaii?

How did the US aquire the Panama Canal Zone?

Which were goals of the progressive movement?

Prohibited sale of misbranded or adultured food and drugs in interstate commerce.

Allows citizens of many US states to place new legislation.

Leader of Progressive movement. Implemented election and tax reform.

An election in which voters choose candidates to run on a party's ticket in a subsequent election for public office

Enacted to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

Socially conscious journalists and writers. They exposed injustices at all levels of society and their work led to much-needed reforms.

She exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work "A History of Standard Oil".

An author who exposed the meat packing industry with his novel "The Jungle".

New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's titled "The Shame of the Cities" in 1902; unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.

At the time of passage, the number of states was 48. 3/4ths of the states had to pass a proposed amendment before it would be added to the Constitution. Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment. (Women's Sufferage)

TN women's suffrage activist, part of the TN Equal Suffrage Association, National American Woman Suffrage Association.

She was also the main leader for the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and organized the Silent Sentinels protest group. She served as the leader of the National Woman's Party for 50 years.

She used more conservative tactics, such as talking political leaders to get the vote, focused on getting a Constitutional Amendment for nationwide suffrage, focused on statewide suffrage.

The movement in large numbers of African Americans during and after World War I from the rural South to industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest.

Allows the federal government to collect an income tax from all Americans.

This amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.

It called for control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources.

Any government activity designed to kill trusts or monopolies.

As president, ___________ took steps to conserve forests, mineral deposits, and water resources. In 1905 he proposed creation of the U.S. Forest Service. He pushed Congress to set aside millions of acres for the nation's first wildlife preserves.

Democrat Woodrow Wilson's political slogan in the presidential campaign of 1912; Wilson wanted to improve the banking system, lower tariffs (taxes), and, by breaking up monopolies, give small businesses freedom to compete.

Regulated banking to help smaller banks stay in business.

A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany.

What weapons were new in WWI?

A formation of the United States Army in World War I. The wars was the first time in American history that the United States sent soldiers abroad to defend a foreign soil.

An independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence public opinion to support US participation in WWI.

Upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 and concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to express freedom of speech against the draft during World War I.

The 369th was known for being the first African American regiment to serve in World War I.

He was the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I.

a blacksmith who was drafted into the army during WWI. While serving in the 82nd Infantry Division, he took command and captured a total of 132 German soldiers.

All German colonies surrendered to the League of Nations.

Huge loses of land - for example Alsager -Lorraine to France or parts of East Prussia and Upper Silesia to Poland.

Lack of control of parts of Germany. ...

Germany has to pay reparations of £6,600 million

Publicly accepted disenfranchisement and social segregation in exchanged for black economic progress, education, and justice.

Founder of the Niagara Movement (1905) (a protest group). Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909) to enforce what is known as the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

Was a trailblazing journalist, a co-founder of the NAACP and a fierce advocate for equal rights and against lynching.

Which was NOT a new trend, idea, or innovation of the 1920s?

It encouraged African Americans to leave the South to pursue work in Harlem, where African Americans were considered equals.

An African American poet active around the 1920s - 1960s. His poetry contributed significantly to the Harlem Renaissance and focused mainly on racial segregation and discrimination.

A world-renowned writer and anthropologist. Their novels, short stories, and plays often depicted African American life in the South. Their work in anthropology examined black folklore.

Which were musicians of the Harlem Renaissance?

Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.

The resurgence of the __________ in the 1920s coincided with the anti-radical and anti-immigrant hysteria of the Red Scare that had engulfed the nation.

A period in the United States history when everyone was so caught up in containment of communism, and investigated people within their community for communism. Even people in the government were suspected of being communist spies.

The Scopes Monkey Trial delt with the teaching of what in schools?

One of the first five players inducted into the sport's Hall of Fame. He broke the baseball's most important slugger record.

He set many flying record, and his most memorable feat was being the first person to fly across the Atlantic.

British comedic actor, producer, writer, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the silent era.

A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Prohibition of alcohol.

The volstead act is close with which amendment?

As _____________ syndicates grew throughout the Prohibition era, territorial disputes often transformed America's cities into violent battlegrounds. Homicides, burglaries, and assaults consequently increased significantly between 1920 and 1933. In the face of this crime wave, law enforcement struggled to keep up.

Provided for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, which had outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

A main cause of the Great Depression was ___________. Factories and farms were producing more goods than the people could afford to buy. As a result, prices fell, factories closed and workers were laid off.

The risky buying and selling of stocks in the hope of making a quick profit - all economic classes believed they could get rich by "playing the market" panic. an economic collapse.

Increased the import taxes on wheat, sugar, meat, wool and other agricultural products.

The purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest.

Most consumers had access to goods they wanted and needed. Many consumers began to overspend on goods they did not need. Many businesses and consumers began to rely on the use of credit.

To allow people to do as they wish without interference.

As the economic depression deepened in the early 30s, and as farmers had less and less money to spend in town, ___________ and ________ began to fail at alarming rates.

A group of almost 20,000 World War I veterans who were hard-hit victims of the depression, who wanted what the government owed them for their services and "saving" democracy. They marched to Washington and set up public camps and erected shacks on vacant lots.

The belief that government should not play an active role in Americans' lives and that government power should be limited to carrying out only the most basic functions. Federal Power.

Act passed by Congress that abolished previous state governments and set up 5 temporary military districts run by Union generals.

A system to help promote the welfare of U.S. citizens.

Creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. It also prohibits employment of minors in "oppressive child labor".

Roosevelt realized the impact that those witting in favor of isolationism had on the nation. He hoped that the storm isolationists' created would fade away and allow the general public to become educated and even active in international policy.

Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union Address, commonly known as the ------- speech. In it he articulated a powerful vision for a world in which all people had freedom of speech and of religion, and freedom from want and fear.

Among its major points were a nation's right to choose its own government, the easing of trade restrictions and a plea for postwar disarmament.

Had given President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation's official position of neutrality.

An American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A lifetime member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt, and as a United States Senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945.

American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, and achieved the rare five-star rank of General of the Army

American soldier and statesman. He rose through the United States Army to become Chief of Staff under presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, then served as Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under Truman

Winston Churchill

Stalin

Hitler

Mussolini

Hideki Tojo

Germany invades __________, initiating World War II in Europe. German forces broke through ________ defenses along the border and quickly advanced on Warsaw, the _______ capital.

A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.

Was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

A major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

What made oak ridge so important to WW2?

a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. They formed the 332d Expeditionary Operations Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces.

This organization was a California group founded in the 1950s to promote Mexican political participation and civil rights.

A civil rights organization started in 1968 to combat the unfair treatment of Native Americans by the government in the north.

Refers to a series of political campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment, and sexual violence.

The _______ _________ is an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly.

Period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1979. The era was a time of increased trade and cooperation with the Soviet Union and the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) treaties.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Nixon must turn over the tapes. This rejected any form of "executive privilege." President Nixon resigned after Congress started an impeachment process. Vice President Ford succeeds Nixon as President.

The Oil embargo of 1973 increased the price of oil in the united states from $3 a barrel to nearly $12 a barrel. Only the wealthy could afford to drive, oil was rationed and lines in gas stations would cause major traffic accidents.

The site of an abandoned canal that became a dumping ground for nearly 22,000 tons of chemical waste (including polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxin, and pesticides) produced by the Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corporation in the 1940s and '50s.

Nuclear power plants experienced a cooling malfunction that caused the temperature of the coolant to rise. ... Without the proper water flow, the nuclear fuel rods overheated to the point at which they began to melt (a partial core meltdown).

It was a 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter between Egyptian and Israeli that made a peace treaty between the two nations possible. These agreements provided Israel, becoming the first Arab nation to do so.

Negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union were aimed at curtailing the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.

Iranian militants (citizens with guns) stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took approximately 70 Americans captive. This was a terrorist act that triggered the most serious crisis of the Carter Presidency and began a struggle/problem for Jimmy Carter and the American people that lasted 444 days.

A global campaign, led by the U.S. federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the United States.

The Space Shuttle __________ disaster was a fatal accident in the United States' space program that occurred on January 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle __________ broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

The "Star Wars program", was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles).

Often referred to as the ------, the McFarlane affair, or simply --------, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration.

The United States invades __________ in an attempt to overthrow military dictator Manuel Noriega, who had been indicted in the United States on drug trafficking charges and was accused of suppressing democracy in ________ and endangering U.S. nationals.

Response to Iraq invasion.

Welfare to Work helped mostly...

Eliminated trade barriers

First Female Justice

1st female to fun for president

66th Secretary of State

US Representative since 1987

1st African American Secretary of State

Select every Civil Rights event

Outlawed discriminatory voting process.

No discrimination in any setting to anyone

No discrimination in any setting to anyone