HISTORY MIDTERM!!!
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go patriots for the superbowl!!!
ready for the midterm???
can u believe we'll have 6 more weeks of winter???!!! ughhh
psh that was SUCH along time ago. the superbowl. and they lost. booooooooo. history SOL tmrw!!! hope u guys are ready! :D ~Diana
go patriots for the superbowl!!!
ready for the midterm???
can u believe we'll have 6 more weeks of winter???!!! ughhh
psh that was SUCH along time ago. the superbowl. and they lost. booooooooo. history SOL tmrw!!! hope u guys are ready! :D ~Diana
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- Thomas Edison
- He developed many inventions, such as the light bulb, motion picture machine, and the phonograph
- Homestead Act
- Provided an opportunity to own 160 acres of land
- Central Powers
- Consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulagaria, and the Ottoman Empire
- Machine Guns
- These weapons fire a very fast stream of bullets for a long time (500-600 bullets/min)
- Morgan
- Banking industry
- Dry farming
- Was created/practiced because of little rain and water and because harsh climate (on the plains) killed traditional crops
- Reservations
- Were limited areas set aside for Native Americans
- Lower Production costs
- This led to high profits for business owners but low salaries for workers
- Steel plow
- Was invented becase hard sod broke wooden tools
- Carnegie
- Steel industry
- Monopoly
- A company that controls all or nearly all of the business of a particular industry
- Rough Riders
- TR (Teddy Roosevelt) organized the First Volunteer Calvary Regiment, known as the ___
- Temperance
- The movement to prohibit the production and consumption of alcohol (not prohibition act)
- National Markets
- Railroads helped big business by creating these (customers across all of America)
- Allied Powers
- Consisted of Italy, France, Russia, and England
- President Woodrow Wilson
- He wanted Americans to stay out of the war (WWI) and trade with both sides (Allied Powers and Central Powers)
- Cattle drives
- Important because cow towns developed
- Vanderbilt
- Railroad industry
- Imperialism
- The growth of this foreign policy in the 1800s stemmed from economic, religious, and competitive issues in Europe (kind of like being a world power)
- Unskilled workers
- Growing factories meant an increased demand for ___ (type of workers) to run the machinery
- Labor Unions
- Workers oganized these to gain better pay, safer work conditions, and shorter hours
- Yellow Journalism
- U.S. newspapers printed exaggerated stories known as ___ (got its name because the newspapers used to get smudged by the color from the comic strip "The Yellow Kid")
- Advertising
- This helped big business grow by informing potential customers of their product
- Zimmerman Telegram
- Germany sent the ___ to Mexico to form an alliance with them against the U.S.
- Ellis Island
- European immigrants were processed here, where they had to wait in line for hours to receive medical examination
- 18th Amendment
- This amendment prohibited the production, sales, and transportation of alcohol (caused people to open speakeasies and bootleg)
- The Philippines and Cuba
- The Spanish-American War was fought in these 2 places
- Mass Production
- Making large quantities of one product quickly and cheaply
- Jim Crow
- Laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government
- William Seward
- When Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. for $7.2 mil, many Americans tought ___'s purchase was foolish (___'s icebox, ___'s folly)
- 19th Amendment
- This amendment granted women the right to vote
- Alexander Graham Bell
- He helped industry grow by improving communication with the invention of the telephone
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- The event which triggered the start of WWI was the assasination of ___
- Trench Warfare
- The fighting in Europe was called ___ (blank warfare)
- Lusitania
- When the Germans sank this U.S. ship, the U.S. threatened to cut off trade with them
- Barbed wire fences
- Solution to Buffalo and cows eating or trampling crops
- Little Bighorn
- This battle in which Crazy Horse defeated Colonel George Custer was one of the few Native American victories in the Indian Wars
- Isolationism
- The U.S. practiced this foreign policy from the time of George Wachington's presidency util the late 1800s
- Push factors
- Are often conditions that drive people to leave their homes and countries
- Militarism
- The principle or policy of maintaining a large military establishment
- Gold rush
- Started a rush west (in 1849) in the hopes of getting rich qick
- Former Slaves
- Left the south for an opportunity to own land or work as cowboys
- Rockefeller
- Oil industry
- Tenement
- A rundown apartment in a city that was often shared by many families
- German War Plan (WWI)
- This plan was to go through neutral Belgium to France
- British Blockade
- This stopped the U.S. from trading with Germany
- Airplanes, submarines, and tanks
- Were new weapons (in WWI) that changed the way war was fought
- Battle of San Juan Hill
- TR (Teddy Roosevelt) led the Rough Riders to victory in ___ during the Spanish-American War
- Sod houses
- Were built because there were few trees
- Angell Island
- Many Asians were processed on this island in the San Fran Bay
- Settlement house
- A community center created to help immigrants adjust to life in America
- USS Maine
- President McKinley sent this ship to Havana, Cuba, to protect the American citizens and property (eventually blew up and the U.S. blamed Spain)
- American Federation of Labor
- Founded by Samuel Gompers, a successful labor union
- Tanks
- Are large trucks covered with heavy metal
- Pull Factors
- Conditions that attract an immigrant to a new land
- Assembly Line
- Produced by Ford to cut the time needed to build a car
- Hull House
- A community set up by Jane Addams that offered sevices to the poor
- Mechanization
- Reduced the need for farm workers and increase production
- The Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico
- These 3 countries came under U.S. control as a result of the Spanish-American War
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- This barred the immigration of Chinese laborers and was the first limit on immigration into the United States
- Railroads
- Were essential to westward expansion because they made it easier to travel to and live in the west
- Suffrage
- The movement to gain women the right to vote
- Muckrackers
- Newspaper reporters who exposed corruption and targeted specific issues such as tenements, big business, and city governments (Upton Sinclair was one of these)
- Upton Sinclair
- Wrote about unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry (author of The Jungle)
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- A Fillipino helped the U.S. fight Spain during the war; however, when the U.S. would not give the Phillipines thier independence, he fought against the U.S.
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Prohibits trusts or other lines of business from limiting competition
- Chief Joseph
- He was the leader of the Nez Perces who tried to escape with his tribe to Canada
- Captains of Industry
- Owners of big business were often called ___ (Rockefeller, Carnegie...)
- Discrimination
- Many immigrants faced this because of differences in clothing, language, and culture
- Westward Expansion
- A period when people settled the Great Plains and the remaining frontier
- Assimilation
- The process of becoming part of another culture
- Boom Towns
- These grew near all the major mining sites and lasted only a few years
- Statue of Liberty
- In honor of the Declaration of Independece, France gave this to the U.S.
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Railway that stretched from the Atlantic to Pacific coasts
- No man's land
- This is the area lying between armies and controlled by neither side
- Ford
- Automobile industry
- Child Labor
- Business owners used this kind of labor because they could spend less on their salaries
- Susan B Anthony
- She worked for women's suffrage (right to vote)
- Electricity
- Helped industry grow by providing power for machines
- Manila
- Commodore George Dewey sailed here (somewhere in/by Asia) and destroyed the Spanish ships, allowig American troops to take over the Philippines
- Jane Addams
- Founder of the Hull House