final review Flashcards
10% plan
plan by Abraham Lincoln that if 10% of confederate voters swore alligeience to the states, they could be pardoned, own land, pick their own delegates and state government
Wade-Davis bill
thought the 10% plan was too nice. It required the majority of votes to swear allegience to the states, didn’t let freedmen vote, and didn’t let confederates hold government office. Vetoed by lincoln
13th amendment
ended slavery
radical republican
someone committed to ending slavery
14th amendment
passed by andrew jackson, everyone is equally protected by the law reguardless of if they were a slave or not
radical reconstruction
black people became a part of the government
reconstruction act
said states had to ratify the 13 and 14 amendments to be part of the US
15th amendment
US citizens can vote reguardless of race
scalawag
a white southerner who agreed with northerners
carpetbagger
a northerner who came to the south to help with reconstruction
new south
shift from agriculture to industrialization in the south during reconstruction
who mostly built the transcontinental railroad?
immigrants
how did the cattle kingdom end?
less space due to barbed wire, railroads, settlements. industrialization was beginning
for laramie treaty
gave native americans money, farming tools, animals, and goods and tried to make them farmers
little bighorn
native american forces led by crazy horse and sitting bull defeated american army troops
dawes act
broke up reservations into individual homes for native americans, trying to get them to assimilate
exodusters
african american homesteaders who moved to the west to settle in the great plains
populists
people who wanted lower tariffs and public ownership of railroads. Wanted to improve economic conditions of farmers
election of 1896
showed a direct division in society between industrial and rural interests
vertical integration
when a company takes control of two or more key stages of its supply chain
horizontal integration
when a company takes control of another company with the same business
pooling
used by railroad companies to limit competition
consolidation
combining two smaller companies to form one bigger company
An 1894 Strike in which the federal
government interfered
pullman strike
haymarket riot
a bomb was thrown at a police officer trying to break up an peaceful labor rally. made people dislike immigrants and labor unions
factors/means of production
inputs needed for creating something. land, labor, capital
compulsory attendance laws
requires children between the ages of six to sixteen to have a program of instruction
When the US “opened” Japan in the 1850’s, this was an referred to as
gunboat diplomacy
roosevelt corollary
said that europe was not allowed to intervene in the western hemisphere
national self-determination
the right of national or ethnic groups to have their own country
What was Warren Harding’s post-war philosophy for the country?
the govenrment should be managed similarly to a business
kellogg briand pact
outlawed war
18th amendment
made alcohol illegal (prohibition)
21st amendment
repealed prohibition
Women who challenged the norms in fashion and behavior in the 1920’s
flappers
scopes trial
1925 science teacher prosecuted for teaching evolution in school. resembled communism because he got in trouble for talking about his beleifs
what happened to Ethiopia?
britain gained control over it
what was going on in japan in the 1930s
depression
neutrality acts
tried to keep us out of the war by not selling war materials to nations in the war
who appeased hitler
britain and france, allowed hitler to take the studentenland (part of czec)
atlantic charter
agreement between roosevelt and churchill about US and Britain war aims
hitlers reaction to pearl harbor
declared war on US
