this is flash card of the us history chapter 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
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| 124954621 | Gold standard | this was the backing dollars solely with gold | |
| 124954622 | Bimetallsm | tihis is a monetary system in wich the government would give citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper | |
| 124954623 | william jennings brayn | was a democrat and gave the gold cross speach | |
| 124954624 | morril act | 1862 - Set aside public land in each state to be used for building colleges. | |
| 124954625 | Dawes Act | An act that removed Indian land from tribal possesion, redivided it, and distributed it among individual Indian families. Designed to break tribal mentalities and promote individualism. | |
| 124954626 | homestead act | Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years. The settler would only have to pay a registration fee of $25. | |
| 124954627 | effect on native americans | the affect it had on native americans was big because all of thier land was being taken away from them | |
| 124954628 | William mckinley | 25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist | |
| 124954629 | Nativists | Americans who feared that immigrants would take jobs and impose their Roman Catholic beliefs on society | |
| 124954630 | Angel island | Inspection station for immigrants arriving on the West Coast | |
| 124954631 | Ellis island | an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States | |
| 124954632 | Economics of imigration | their economics was really bad because they would take lower wages so they did not have a lot of money so they lived in bad conditions | |
| 124954633 | Gentlemans agreement | in 1907 this accord restricted japanes immigration to the united states | |
| 124954634 | chinese exclusion act | 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States | |
| 124954635 | booker t. washington | African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality. | |
| 124954636 | rockefeller | United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937) | |
| 124954637 | carnegie | United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919) | |
| 124954638 | how immiration effects the supply of labor | when alot of immirants came to the us there was less jobs because they would excpet lower wages | |
| 124954639 | monopoly | exclusive control or possession of something | |
| 124954640 | strikes and labor disputes | these where very bad for the business owners because they could make nothing with there workers on strike so they could make no money | |
| 124954641 | old immigration vs new imigration | these where very different becasue old immigration you did not have to pass test and stuff you just came into the us. new immiration you hae to do alot of stuff like take test and stuff | |
| 124954642 | AFL | American Federation of Labor. A union of skilled workers from one or more trades which focused on collective bargaining (negotiation between labor and management) to reach written agreements on wages hours and working conditions. The AFL used strikes as a major tactic to win higher wages and shorter work weeks. | |
| 124954643 | Political machines | Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party. | |
| 124954644 | populist party | a former political party in the United States | |
| 124954645 | women's suffrage | Women's right to vote | |
| 124954646 | square deal | Theodore Roosevelt's promise of fair and equal treatment for all | |
| 124954647 | Taft | 27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930) | |
| 124954648 | Muckrakers | This term applies to newspaper reporters and other writers who pointed out the social problems of the era of big business. The term was first given to them by Theodore Roosevelt. | |
| 124954649 | Teddy roosevelt | president 1901-1909 a natrualist, was sickly as a child and stayed inside and focused on school. he loved to be outside and challange himself.Roosevelt supposrted pure food and drug law, created the Burea of Corporations to inspect business earnings, prohibited discrimination by the rairoads, and enforced the Sherman Anti-trust Act. He changed the nation's foreign policy by making it more imperialistic and adding new lands like Hawaii. | |
| 124954650 | child labor | Children were viewed as laborers throughout the 19th century. Many children worked on farms, small businesses, mills and factories. | |
| 124954651 | Environmentlist | people who care for the envirment | |
| 124954652 | The jungle | This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act. | |
| 124954653 | 1912 election | In 1912 Roosevelt decided to run for his third term for president, Taft who was president at the time was also running for president (both were part of the Republican Party) -soon the Progressive Party was formed and Roosevelt was nominated also know as the Bull Moose Party -from the Democratic Party Woodrow Wilson was nominated -election offered several choices: Wilson's New Freedom, Taft's' conservatism, Roosevelt's progressivism, or Socialist Party polices of Eugene Debs (Wilson Won) | |
| 124954654 | prohibition | a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages | |
| 124954655 | Federal trade commission | an independent agency of the United States fedeal government that maintains fair and free competition | |
| 124954656 | Isolation | the act of isolating something | |
| 124954657 | imperialism | any instance of aggressive extension of authority | |
| 124954658 | open door policy | A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China. | |
| 124954659 | panama canal | a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914) | |
| 124954660 | Roosevelt corolary | whatever is good for the U.S. is justifiable, U.S fabrication of Panama, today these actions would not be condoned by the U.S. or its allies | |
| 124954661 | social darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. | |
| 124954662 | Great white fleet | 16 American battleships, painted white, sent around the world to display American naval power | |
| 124954663 | spanish american war | In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence | |
| 124954664 | yellow journalism | Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers | |
| 124954665 | U boats | German submarines | |
| 124954666 | Zimmerman telegram | March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary, addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return, Germany would give back Tex, NM, Arizona etc to Mexico. | |
| 124954667 | freedom of speech | a civil right guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the US constitution | |
| 124954668 | espionage and sedition act | Two lwas, enacted in 1917 and 1918, that imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against US partcipation in WWI | |
| 124954669 | liberty bonds | sold to American people to raise money for the war efforts | |
| 124954670 | selective service act | law requiring men to register for military service | |
| 124954671 | 18th amendent | 18th: eliminate drunkness/family abuse 21st: repealed 18 amendent | |
| 124954672 | 19th amendment | gave women the right to vote | |
| 124954673 | great migration | movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920 | |
| 124954674 | treaty of versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans | |
| 124954675 | urban sprawl | the growth of low density development outward from the edges of a city | |
| 124954676 | prohibition | the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | |
| 124954677 | flapper | a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress | |
| 124954678 | nativism | a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones | |
| 124954679 | red scare | a period of general fear of communists | |
| 124954680 | Isolationism | a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations | |
| 124954681 | palmer raids | A 1920 operation coordinated by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer in which federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organization in 32 cities | |
| 124954682 | quota system | an arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country | |
| 124954683 | kkk | a secret society of white Southerners in the United States |
