Final Exam Flashcards
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
•Monopolized steel industry
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
- Standard Oil Co, oil monopoly
* RR Rebates
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
- Steamship and railroad industry
* Accesories transit inc.
What was Laissez-faire?
Little government involvement in businesses. Businesses can compete freely.
What was utopia?
The idea of everyone being equal, and having equal rights and freedom. A free, happy, place. The result of socialism and communism done properly.
Who was Adam Smith?
The person credited with the idea of capitalism.
What was Social Darwinism?
The idea of survival of the fittest in a social and business aspect.
What was a monpoly?
When a business had taken over an entire industry, and has no real competition.
What was the “Island of Tears”?
The nickname for Ellis Island because people got citizenship rejected there.
Who was Karl Marx?
The person credited with the idea of communism.
What does it mean to assimilate?
For foreigners to mix with other groups within a country.
What was an enclave?
A poor area meant for foreigners from a specific region so they feel at home.
What was The Jungle?
A book written by Upton Sinclair to Roosevelt about work conditions.
Who was William Hearst?
•Media industry
Who was JP Morgan?
•Bank, Steel, and railroad industries and many others
What were the Rough Riders?
A group led by Teddy Roosevelt who fought in Cuba in the Spanish American War.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
A foreign policy that was a warning to europe to stay out of the western hemisphere. Not effective.
What was a progressive?
A political party member who believed in expansion of the US.
What were spheres of influence?
An area of China that each inperialistic nation had an influence on
What was an Open Door policy?
An immigration policy that welcomed most people into the US.
What was Manifest Destiny?
Nation building physically, culturally, spiritually. God gavr us the USA.
What was The Turner thesis?
“With every generation that moves west, citizens become more American.”
America was gods gift, western frontier closed, we have survived all challenges of expansion.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
Very strict laws about black people in the south.
What was “Remember the Maine”?
One of our main motivations going into the spanosh American war because we were convinced the Spanosh sunk the USS Maine.
Who was WEB DuBois?
- Niagra Movement
- Founded NAACP
- Motovated blacks to succeed economically and go to school
What was the Plessy Vs Ferguson Case?
A black male vs the Board of Education about Jim Crow laws, they ended up staying.
What was the 16th Amendment?
Allowed congress to levy income taxes without regard to state population.
What was the 17th Amendment?
Direct state elections for people, state can fill vacant GOV spots.
What was the 18th Amendment?
Made prohibition.
What was the 19th Amendment?
Women can vote.
What is a conservationalist?
Someone who wants to convserve nature and its resources.
What is the Federal Reserve?
An act that local banks cash with a Federal Reserve District Bank or Motherbank. The motherbanks could increase or decrease the districts money supply.
What was Yellow Journalism?
Flase newspaper stories that people listened to.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
The father of unions.
Who was Susan B Anthony?
A womens right activist.
What was Collective Bargaining?
Where business owners would sit down with unions and have a written agreement.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
The Russian leader who took them out of the war in ww1 and staryed communism in Russia.
Who was Georges Clemenceau?
Frances savior in WW1. He organized France, connected with US, and went to the Treaty of Versailles.
Who was Kaiser Wilhelm II?
The leader of Germany in WW1 who gets exiled when he loses.
Who were the Bolsheviks?
The political party in Russia who supported Lenin.
Who was Otto Von Bismarck?
The chancellor of Germany/Prussia. He was also a military genius.
What was the 14 points?
A WW1 treaty proposed by Wilson. It was rejected by the US Senate and other world leaders.
What was The League of Nations?
A gathering of leaders from each nation to discuss and work out stuff in a neutral emvironment.
What was the War Guilt Clause?
Germany admits all war guilt and its 100% their fault.
What was the Espionage Act?
An Act that punished citizens who speak against the army or help the enemy. Goverment can also censor mail as well.
What was the Comittee on Public Information?
Helped get psychological support for the war and advertised propaganda to the world.
What was the Sedition Act?
No citizen can speak against the gov., constitution, flag, or military.
What was the War Industry Board?
A board meant to spur production and stop waste for the war.
What was the Selective Service Act?
Requires men between 18-45 to register for the army during the war and took those with no exemptions.
What was the Lusitania?
An ship sunk by a German torpedo and 100s of people died.
What was the Zimmerman Letter?
A note written between German that revealed a plan to distract the US the attack us.
What was a flapper?
Young women in the 1920s who had short hair and wore short dresses and carried cigarette holers, they were rebellious.
What was the Jazz Age?
A revolution of Jazz in the 1920s. Many African Americas became famous because of jazz and it was very popular.
What was the Quota Law in the 1920s?
A law the limited to number of immigrants in the world based on how many were already here.
What was The Red Scare?
A term used to describe the tense atmosphere in the 1920s where resentment with Bolsheviks flared into terrorism. Bolsheviks were blamed for everything.
What was A Speakeasie?
An illegal party club with alcohol during prohibition.
What was the Second Bonus Bill?
- Gov gives veterans life insirance after 20 years
* Vetoed, then overridden by congress
What was “normalcy”?
The term used after WW1 because America wanted to go back to normal.
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Albert fall rented out oil facilities to other businessmen and made over $400,000.
What were Hoovervilles?
Groups of shacks made by homeless people in the great depression.
What was the Bonus Army?
A group of WW1 veterans who protested in DC for the bonus bill and were treated cruely.