ESSAY Flashcards
Identify and describe Plessy v. Ferguson
Homer Plessy, a man that appears whit but because of the 1 drop rule is considerd black. He rides a train for whites. “seperate but equal” Basically the fact that there was 2 of everything (ex. Trains) Plessy usus the 13th and 14th ammendment as leway during the court, they all took fergusons side and plessy lost.
Identify and describe the Civil War as a social revolution.
Because America changed after the civil war, the soulth had split from the north, and the uprising of seggregation all arose during this time.
Identify and describe the Black Codes.
Another form of Slavery, they criminalized Black people’s leisure, limited their mobility. they controld over formerly enslaved people
13th 14th 15th ammendment
13- The amendment legally abolished slavery “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”
14- Citicenship
15-cant use race color etc to prevent people from voting
Purity Crusade
A period where people tried to ban gambling, prostitution, drugs, alcohol.
Identify and describe the Compromise of 1877
Democrats threatened to boycott Hayes’s inauguration. The Republicans, fearing another sectional crisis, reached out to
Democrats, and they worked evrything out
Identify and describe the “Populist Crusade.
Identify and describe the acquisition of Hawaii.
American businessmen who had overthrown the Hawaiian monarchy, the United States annexed the Hawaiian Islands and their rich plantations. Between Hawaii and a number of former Spanish possessions, many Americans coveted the economic and political advantages that increased territory would bring.
Identify and describe the Spanish-American War.
Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders
embodied the idealized image of the tall, strong, virile, and fit American
man. They believed masculinity would preserve the American race’s superiority against foreign foes, but
Identify and describe the Open Door Policy.
called for all Western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets. Trade was open to evryone
Identify and describe the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Monroe Doctrine declared that the United States considered its entire hemisphere (north and south) off limits. Roosevelt pronounced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe
Doctrine. They said that if anyone from europe posed as a threat. They would be dealed with
Identify and describe the Panama Canal.
It costan enormous
political capital in the United States. Roosevelt reasoned that the United States must create and maintain fiscal and political stability within strategically important nations in Latin
America, particularly those affecting routes to and from the proposed
Panama Canal.
