Social studies Midterm Review!!!
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- Andrew Carnagie
- philanthropist who owned a steel company and invented vertical integration
- southern
- fertile soil, large plantations,
- judicial
- the judges, supreme court, courts dealt with cases having to do with breaking the law
- seneca falls
- women's rights convention where Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretta Mott wwere
- reconstruction
- the period of time after the civil war of re-building in the south
- legislative
- branch of government that makes the laws
- great plains
- got their by carriage, hard soil that was tough to farm, little resources
- checks and balances
- added to the constitution so one branch didn't have too much power
- executive
- contains the president which commands armies and ratifies laws
- Iroquois confederacy
- a sophistacated political and social system that created peace with the five nations, Mohawk, Oneida,Onandaga, cayuga and seneca
- new england
- industrial, fishermen, sailors, little farms
- progressives
- wanted to reform cities, and improve conditions for working class people Ex -Roossevelt
- immigrants
- came to America for (american dream) religious freedom, democracy, better jobs, economic opportunity, and had to work very hard it wasn't what they expected
- abolitionists
- someone who wanted to abolish or get rid of slavery. Ex-john Brown, Ben Franklin Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas paine , Marquis de lafayette. George Whasington
- John D. Rockefeller
- philanthropist who owns and oil refining company and used horizontal integration
- primary source
- a document, artifact or thing from an eyewitness to the particular subject being studied
- muckrakers
- journalists who wrote about corruption and business and politics Ex- Ida TrbellIda tarbell
- maya
- highly advanced ancient civilization that used resources, located in mexico
- disease
- The explorers changed life for native american s in north america because there was new tecnology and __________spread
- articles of confederation
- document that outlined rules for colonists after breaking away from great britian, but didn't work because it gave too little power to the central government, and is now the constitution
- Louisiana purchase
- the territory was explored, by lewis and clark, bought by thomas jefferson, and was important because it expanded the territory and population of the nation
- south
- the ______ was expected to win in the beginning of the civil war because they had better generals, soldiers, causes and home field advantage
- middle
- fertile soil, unclear forests
- aztec
- highly advanced ancient civilization that used resources,located in south america
- Theodore Roosevelt
- known for the Panama Canal, big stick policy,Rough riders, 26th president, secretary of Navy, organized the progressive party
- imperialism
- extending nations power by taking over other territories or countries
- populist party
- farmers in the west formed the ______ to help get there debt out of the way because of low priced crops. this fought for working rights
- inca
- highly advanced ancient civilization that used resources, located in central america
- federalists
- supported the ratification of the constitution
- civil war
- causes: election of abraham Lincoln, slavery, growth of abolition movement, state V. federal rights, differences in economy and social life
- freed
- slaves were ______ during reconstruction but in the south were still treated poorly, most moved up north and some learned to read and write
- mercantilism
- economic benefit that the mother gets from its colonies
- anti-federalists
- opposed the ratification of the constitution because of the fear of a strong central goverment
- industrialization
- time period in which things were made by machines
- amendments
- allow the constitution to adapt to changing times
- declaration of independence
- what is the document called that states the reasons to break away from Great britian
- middle
- the thirteen colonies consists on 3 regions, new england, southern and __________
- taxes
- the french and indian war led to the revolutionary war because england raised the colonies _______ to pay for the cost of war.
- spanish-american war
- the war in which we were impearlistic we took over puerto rico, cuba and the Philippines
- longhouses and wigwams
- what structures did the algonquin & Iroquois live in
- landbridge
- the earliest human beings got to america from east Asia by crossing the______between Surbia and Alaska
- great britain
- what country controlled the thirteen colonies?