Abby Esco's and Jillie's Flashcards
W.E.B. Dubois
American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor
1st African American to get a PhD from Harvard
Launched Niagra Movement and NAACP
Frederick Jackson Turner
Wrote “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”
Turner thesis claimed the settlement of the West by Whites was the central story of American history
(Desolate land to modern civilization)
Booker T Washington
Founder and president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Born into slavery
Became a spokesman for education and blacks
Grover Cleveland
The only president to leave the White House and return for a 2nd term four years later (only 2 term not consecutive)
1st democrat elected after the Civil War (1885)
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Steel = vertical integration
Scottish immigrant who opened steelworks in Pittsburgh
Led the steel industry
Morgan bought his co. and made the United States Steel Co.
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Co. of Ohio (largest and most powerful monopoly)
Created the “trust” and a “holding company”
William McKinley
(Pres 1896) Gold Standard Act
Victory in 1898 Spanish-American War, annexed Hawaii
Established the open door policy to China
Passed the Dingley Tariff Act
Assassinated in 1901
Alfred Mahan
Most effective apostle of imperialism
Captain and admiral in the navy
Wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
John Hay
McKinley’s Secretary of State
Called the Spanish American War a “splendid little war”
John Pershing
Led the American expeditionary force across the Mexican border in pursuit of Villa
All US troops in WWI under his command
Pancho Villa
Led rebel army in Mexico and staged raids across the US border
Robert LaFollette ON TERMS SHEET
ON TERMS SHEET
Rand for president in 1924
Turned governor of Wisconsin into a “laboratory of progressivism”
American Republican politician aka “fighting Bob”
Theodore Roosevelt
McKinley’s Vice President and youngest man to assume the presidency
Developed the “Square Deal” and “New Nationalism”
Bull Moose Party
Woodrow Wilson
President from 1913-1921 led the US into WWI and promised a return to normalcy
Won reelection in 1916 with the saying “he kept us out of war”
Instituted conscription/ draft
Developed 14 points and the League of Nations
Warren Harding ON SHEET
ON SHEET
Ohio senator became president in 1921 (elected in 1920)
Republicans called him a “good second-rater”
Teapot Dome Scandal
Calvin Coolidge
Succeeded Harding when he died in 1923
Elected president in 1924
Governor of Massachusetts
Less active than Harding
Herbert Hoover
Republican, president during 1923-1933 during the Great Depression
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president of the US
President during the Great Depression
His recovery program was the New Deal
Frances Perkins
American sociologist and workers-rights advocate
Secretary of Labor
First woman appointed to the US cabinet
Truman
33rd president
Presided over the victory of World War II
Former Vice President for FDR
Policy of communist containment start the Cold War
Hitler
Leader of the Nazi Party
Initiated fascist policies that led to WWII
Mussolini
Leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy
Italian Dictator
Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII
Ruled by terror and transformed peasant society into industrial and military superpower
Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Rallied British people during WWII
