US History Information: Midterm

a mile line track constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the Pacific and the existing Eastern US railroad network

a bunch of people from different ethnicities mixing together in America losing their native culture

pro American and anti immigration feelings and groups that rose during the time of high immigration

a law passed in 1882 banning entry into American from China.

the processing center into the US sitting outside of New York City

the growth of cities during the Gilded Age

Poorly made apartments to house immigrants and slaves

buying all of the resources and companies related to your industry to keep costs very low

monopoly formed by buying up all of your competitors companies to eliminate competition

Nickname given to the captain of industry who formed monopolies and became among the richest men who ever lived

a hands off government policy toward the economy which allowed business to unrestrained

Theory that individuals, groups and people are subject to the same Darwin laws of natural selection

a person who searches for and tries to expose real or alleged corruption

a nick name for Roosevelts agenda as president

public rights for women

breaking up monopolies

what is a trust

President William Howard Taft’s policy of investing in Latin America

Roosevelts policy of using military forces

a policy created by John Hay to keep China open to trade

the type of journalism that relies on sensationalism titles/headings

a short canal between the atlantic and pacific oceans that is over 100 years old. this canal runs through panama

france, uk, russia

germany, austria Hungary, ottoman empire

a message designed to make you think a certain way about things

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passenger ship sunk by a German submarine

a secret message from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance against the US

Germany using submarines to sink any ships

treaty that ends WW1 and puts all of the blame/punishments on Germany

Woodrow Wilson’s plan for world peace

a group of nations working together for world peace

banning of achohol

secretly selling achohol illegally

young carefree women who rebeled against the traditional ways of acting. they wore short skirts, cut their hair short, and wore a lot of makeup

founded Carnegie steel

dominated steel industry in Pittsburg

wrote a book “Gospel of Wealth”

was a great philanthropist

from New York

dominated transportation industry

social and education leader

founded Tuskegee institute

believed in the gradual approach towards equality through education known as the Atlanta Compromise

very rich

dominated oil industry

founded standard oil

from Cleveland, Ohio

used vertical and horizontal integration

invented light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera

was from Menlo Park, New Jersey

one of the NAACP founders

believed in a more independent approach

to equality

protested against lynching, racism, and Jim Crow laws

wrote a book called “the souls of black folks”

from Connecticut

dominated finance and banking industry

he purchased Carnegie Steel and turned it into the US

he merged companies and made General Electric

from Scotland

invented the telephone

founded AT&T

born into slavery

traveled across the south documenting African American lives

studied and reported on lynching

helped found NAACP

supported civil rights and woman suffrage

progressive social reformer and activist

founder of Hull House in Chicago

noble piece prize winner

his “Big Stick” foreign policy was to threaten intervention

The “Roosevelt Corollary” made the police of the Western Hemisphere

trust buster of monopolies

set aside land for parks

his “Dollar Diplomacy” foreign policy was to invest in Latin America

Not as progressive as Teddy Roosevelt had hoped

Later chief justice of supreme court

socialist labor leader

co founder of the industrial workers of the world

5 time candidate for president by the socialist party

wrote a book, “the jungle”

exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry

spurred the food and drug act

exposed oil industry

muckraker reporter

investigated Rockefeller and Standard Oil

wrote a 19 part magazine to expose standard oil

most famous supporter of woman’s suffrage and rights

founded American equal rights

tried to keep the US out of World War 1

his “New Freedom” called for domestic reforms

moral diplomacy of only supporting nations with moral beliefs like the US’s

he 14 points and league of nations sought world peace

last queen of Hawaii

opposed US intervention and taking her country

powerless to stop the wealthy American businessmen

Italian prime minister during the war

one of the “Big Four” at the treaty of Versailles meetings

inability to speak English hurt his negotiating at the peace conference

Heir to the throne of Austria Hungary

Assassination in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip of the Black Hand

His assassination sparked the start of World War 1

French leader during the war

One of the “Big Four” at the treaty of Versailles meetings

Insisted on punishing Germany for it’s role in the war

last german emperor

led a massive militaristic buildup before the war

lax wartime leader

Abdicated the throne in 1918 and fled to the Netherlands

Tsar of Russia

insisted on visiting the front while his country was in turmoil

weak leader who was overthrown by Bolshevik Revolution

killed along with his family

British prime minister during the war

One of the “Big Four” at the treaty of Versailles meeting

sought to remove the threat of Germany navy

Nicknamed “Black Jack”

Insisted on leading US forces in Europe as opposed to a foreign general

served as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)on the Western front.

greatest baseball player in history

an American short story writer

american writer/poet

american aviator

30th president of the US

29th president of the US

a bomb killed people and policemen and people started shooting at each other

gives any American up to 160 acres of land in the west

must improve the land and live there for 5 years

signed into law by President Lincoln in May 1862

the US is fighting to defend Cuba because they want it as their territory

the blow up of the USS Maine happened and this made the Americans MAD but Woodrow Wilson didn’t let them go into the war yet

direct election of senators

banned the sale of alcohol

gave women the right to vote

a strike against the Pullman factory

this stopped work on the trans continental railroad for a day

a fire spread throughout a factory very rapidly and killed 146 workers

Vladamier Lenin leads the communist Bolshevik’s

Over throw Czar

Sign the treaty of Breast-Litovsk with Germany in 1918

Germany declares “unrestricted submarine warfare”

Lusitania sunk by German U-boat in 1915

u boat

long deadly battle throughout 1916

over 1 million casualties from July to November of 1916

Militarism: new military technologies, arms race between countries, and glorification of war

Alliances: agreements to aide each other if attacked, secret alliances, allies and central powers

Imperialism: competition for colonies, many smaller wars over territory

Nationalism: French-German border conflicts, ethnic nationalism in the Balkans

1980 American Music Drama Film

the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean

came from muckrakers exposing unsanitary medicines and food (meat packing)

The US ship that blew up: was either a Mexican submarine that shot it or ammunition blew up in the bottom of the ship