History 36-44 Study Guide
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247041001 | frank l. wright was taught by sullivan | Chicago architect who pioneered the use of skyscrapers | |
247041002 | city parks (central park) | Improvement Frederick olmstead brought to NY | |
247041003 | wright brothers | Who made first flight and when | |
247041004 | Kodak camera | How did George Eastman change photography | |
247041005 | curriculums developed | How did colleges change at the turn of the century | |
247041006 | realism | Style of literature and art that stressed life as it really existed | |
247041007 | bicycle | New leisure activity that gave people greater mobility and privacy | |
247041008 | ragtime | New type of musical style created by scott Joplin | |
247041009 | motion picture | New type of entertainment first created by Thomas Edison | |
247041010 | poll taxes; literacy tests | Name 2 methods used to deny voting rights to African Americans | |
247041011 | plessy vs. ferguson | Supreme court case that made segregation legal | |
247041012 | jim crow laws/ black codes | Name given to the laws which officially segregated society | |
247041013 | booker t. washington | African American leader who stresses an industrial education | |
247041014 | tuskegee | Place of higher learning designed to help African Americans learn a vocation | |
247041015 | w.e.b. dubois | Harvard educated African American leader who wanted full civil rights | |
247041016 | isolationism | Policy of staying out of foreign affairs | |
247041017 | imperialism | Policy of taking colonies and building an empire | |
247041018 | sewards folly (purchase from russia) | How did the US acquire Alaska | |
247041019 | 1898 | When did Hawaii become a part of the US | |
247041020 | alfred mahan | Who wrote an influential report recommending a powerful navy was needed to become a world power | |
247041021 | uss maine | Name the US ship that sailed to Cuba to observe and then exploded in the harbor | |
247041022 | cuban independence | What did the Teller Amendment promise | |
247041023 | george dewey | Who captured the Philippines when the war began | |
247041024 | rough riders | Name of the group led by Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba | |
247041025 | san juan hill | Famous battle outside Santiago Cuba involving Roosevelt | |
247041026 | mckinley | Which US president was assassinated in 1901 | |
247041027 | roosevelt | Who became President after the assassination | |
247041028 | carry a big stick | Roosevelt said "speak softly, and ?" | |
247041029 | panama | Where did the US want to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific | |
247041030 | roosevelt corollary | What is the name of the theory that the US will be the only nation to intervene in Latin America | |
247041031 | open door policy notes | What were the letters to world leaders about China called | |
247041032 | difference b/t wealthy and poor | What is the wealth gap | |
247041033 | iww | Who were the Wobblies | |
247041034 | middle class reformers | Who were Progressives | |
247041035 | social gospel | Theory that you should help those less fortunate than you | |
247041036 | muckrakers | Name given to journalists who exposed corruption in the nation | |
247041037 | standard oil | What did Ida Tarbell write about | |
247041038 | immigrants/meat-packing | What did Upton Sinclair write about | |
247041039 | corrupt cities | What did Lincoln Steffins write about | |
247041040 | manager government | What new form of gov't involved a hired professional executive running the government | |
247041041 | primaries; initiatives; referendums; recall | List 4 voting reform the Progressives passed | |
247041042 | food & drug administration; to keep food safe | What is the FDA and its purpose | |
247041043 | oregon vs muller | What court case first saw the courts getting involved in the conditions of workers | |
247041044 | square deal | What was the name of Roosevelt's Progressive platform as President | |
247041045 | believed in good trusts | Describe Roosevelt's attitude towards trusts | |
247041046 | 1902 coal strike | What strike did Roosevelt help to end by siding with the laborers | |
247041047 | conservation | What issue was Roosevelt among the first to consider worth a President's attention | |
247041048 | taft | Who succeeded Roosevelt as President | |
247041049 | he was always in the middle, couldn't side in an argument | Why did Taft become unpopular within his own party | |
247041050 | taft & roosevelt | Who ran in the election of 1912 | |
247041051 | new nationalism | Name Roosevelt's platform for the 1912 election | |
247041052 | new freedom | Name Wilson's platform for the 1912 election | |
247041053 | lower tariffs | What did the Underwood Tariff accomplish | |
247041054 | federal reserve | Name the system Wilson pushed through Congress to reform our banking system | |
247041055 | ftc | What government agency was designed to regulate business practices | |
247041056 | clayton anti-trust act | What new stronger anti-trust law was passed under Wilson | |
247041057 | faded | What happened to the laissez-faire system of government under the Progressive | |
247041058 | women | What group of Americans gained the right to vote in 1920 | |
247041059 | african americans | What group of Americans saw little improvement under the Progressives | |
247041060 | income taxes | What is the 16th amendment | |
247041061 | direct election of senators | What is the 17th amendment | |
247041062 | prohibtion of alcohol | What is the 18th amendment | |
247041063 | women suffrage | What is the 19th amendment |