US History Fall Final Review

Abolishment of slavery

Granted freedmen citizenship and full protection of the laws, abolishment of 3/5 rule

Granted African american men the right to vote

Allows government to collect federal income tax

Direct election of senators

Prohibition

Women’s suffrage

repealed prohibition

Gangster/crime boss who was arrested for tax evasion

patented first practical telephone

northerners who moved to the south

southerners who supported the new governments

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman empire

good - Blacks gained more rights bad - KKK, Black codes

When the public is directly involved in voting, no representatives. Ex. Ancient Athens, progressives

made it a criminal offense to criticize the war effort

established by congress to help slaves and refugees. It provided food, housing, medical aid, established schools and hospitals, and helped with the black codes and land settlements.

each raged over doctrine in schools. Fundamentalists believed that evolution being taught would corrupt people while modernists believed that children should make their own decisions.

positives - economy and business grew, standard of living improved, labor unions, and evangelism grew. negatives - immigration controversy, darwinism grew, materialism, and U.S. debt

the first black U.S. Senator

regulated railroads so that railroad rates were reasonable and just, and it also required the rates to be public

Outlawed war - couldn’t be enforced

Klu Klux Klan, targeted blacks and white republicans during the reconstruction. In the 1920s the Klan was revived from fear f immigrants and African Americans. Attracted middle class protestants.

increased the tax rate of foreign products, lowered government income due to decrease in trade

John Hay, called for free trade in China preventing any one nation controlling trade in China

federal government jobs could be given through merit and exams to eliminate discrimination

Began after the civil war, the compromise of 1877 in which troops were removed in the south, marked the end of the reconstruction era. The reconstruction helped with civil rights, but the south was still healing.

Military occupied the south, gave black people the right to vote and hold office, states had to submit new constitutions for approval, ratified 14th amendment

aggressive and cost-efficient business men, Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, John Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Steel industry, believed in philanthropy

Finance/Investment banker, bought companies to reorganize them

oil refining industry, lowered prices which made him control 90% of the industry

Shipping industry

led by Theodore Roosevelt, Battle of San Juan Hill

The fear of communists rising, and the Bolshevik Revolution led to the Red Scare. Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists who were “guilty” of murder. They personified the targets of the Red Scare.

a system where the landlord allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop. Often got trapped in debt.

power to regulate business, mader certain practices and monopolizing illegal, relatively ineffective

Began from Yellow journalism, de lome letter (spanish ambassador denounces McKinley) , and sinking of the USS Maine. The Battle of Santiago Bay was the end of it. American gained Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines - U.S. recognized as a world power.

Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination, Germany sinking the Lusitania, the zimmermann telegram

written by Upton Sinclair, describes the meat packing industry

light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera

Ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied powers, failed to ratify because of its harsh and unrealistic expectations for Germany

Alliance between Russia, France and Britain

controlled all aspects of production from the mine to the market (steel industry)

controlled an entire segment of an industry (oil refining)

Wilson’s plan for world peace,

isolationism, wanted to maintain world peace, and stabilize world economy