Mid-Term Questions Flashcards
Quality of being believable, or worthy of trust.
Credibility
Bias
Someone’s preferred personal connection to something, rather than truth or facts. Usually loses credibility in the source as evidence is often set aside
Perspective
Someone’s point of view on a given source. Can turn a source into a primary one when mentioned.
The process of thoroughly understanding how the time period, the environment, and other factors influenced a historical event.
Contextualization
Segregation that is NOT upheld by law, but exists due to personal often racist preferences, economic circumstances, long-existing customs or other factors.
De Facto segregation
Sharecropping
A farming practice in the south, black or whites rented small plots of land. This was used a lot during the Reconstruction Era when slaves were able to get their the own land
Plessey v. Ferguson
Supreme Court case that let segregation become legal as long as it was “separate but equal”. This was used in the South a lot but it was not equal, as for example there were water fountains but they were separated by having one for whites and the other for blacks, but the water fountain for whites was better than the one for African Americans, showing that in the south they took advantage of this case which lead to this method being overused in the Jim Crow era
Greenbook
A book made for African Americans about safe places to visit or just stay during the night to prevent conflicts with the racist south. African Americans used this a lot when they had the travel to the South, this book would tell them about good hotels and overall cities that are more friendly to African Americans than others in the south.
Negro Project
Made to commit a “silent genocide” on African Americans by telling women to take birth control so Black people can’t keep reproducing so they go extinct in the future, but it miserably failed. This was a used method out of many that racists used towards black people during the Jim Crow Era to suppress them.
Vertical Integration
a business strategy used by industrialists to control all aspects of manufacturing of the product, this was a very common strategy industrialist used during the 1800s; industrialists like Andrew Carnegie used this strategy for his steel-making company
Nicola Tesla
Born in Croatia, moved to NYC in 1884. And began working as an engineer for Thomas Edison, and his Direct Current Electrical System invention became very popular and used in the late 1800s
Which innovation led to the practice of installment plan payments?
sewing machine
What was the Bessemer process?
a steel-making process in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed by blasting compressed air into molten iron.
Research Lab
One of Edison’s most important inventions was the “Menlo Park”, this creation made the smartest people alive unite as one group and revolutionize the world in the future. These research labs are also still used to this day
Which of the following innovators developed the business practice of horizontal integration?
John D Rockefeller
Model T
First important car ever built. Cars used to be expensive and only rich people were able to get them, but not anymore due to Henry Ford’s invention that now the average American was able to afford in which revolutionized our ways of traveling
Which of the following individuals was known to be a leader of the American eugenics movement?
Margaret Sanger
What is photographer Don Bartelli famous for capturing?
Illegal immigration from Central American into the US.
Which American immigrant group is best described here: This immigrant group primarily left their homeland due to ethnic discrimination. When they arrived in the US they primarily settled in Eastern cities where they typically worked as entrepreneurs and street vendors.
Jewish Immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act
Passed by Congress, it prevented Chinese immigration for the next 10 years in the U.S. This impacted Chinese families who wanted to see their families or worked to bring their families to the U.S. It also happened because of racism against Chinese immigrants
Which island was the major entrance point for Chinese and Japanese immigrants on the American west coast?
Angel Island
Hull House
nation’s most influential apartment complex for poor immigrants; converted by Jane Adams. This helped poor immigrants have a roof under where they live and have slightly better living conditions than before.
Chain Migration
immigrants move to a specific destination of a city or town that is full of people of their own ethnicity or race. Later this would form popular places such as “Little Italy”, “China Town”, etc.
Tenements
Apartment rooms were divided into living spaces for immigrants; they lived in very cramped rooms. This led to poor living conditions for immigrants as they also didn’t have a good pumbling system, ventilation, etc.
Which dry reformer was known to be the leader of the Anti-Saloon League?
Wayne Wheeler
Wickersham Commission
a crime commission to make recommendations for improving the enforcement of National Prohibition. This commission by President Hoover tried to get rid of the high crime rates in the country by finding different types of solutions
Carrie Nation
A Kansas native and wife of a dead drunkard. This reform group believed alcohol was evil and needed to go, supporting the cause of Prohibition which would later occur.
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
the brutal murder of seven members and associates of Chicago’s North Side Gang, some of these members were policemen which exposed the truth of more corruption in the police system during Prohibition
Which law was known to strengthen the punishment and increase the fines for those violating prohibition?
Jones Act
Volstead Act
an enforcement law that contained 67 separate sections about how Prohibition should be enforced, this law “gave teeth” to the 18th Amendment in which was used a lot during this time period.
What caused many of the severe burns of soldiers fighting in Iraq & Afghanistan?
IEDs or roadside bombs
Controversial law that punished people for aiding the enemy, making speeches that criticized the War, or refusing military duty during WW1.
Espionage Act
Spanish Influenza
one of the most deadly diseases in WWI that was the main cause of death in the war, this led to medical advancements as scientist now had to study the virus and come up with a cure
Lusitania
a British passenger ship carrying American people in it that was torpedoed by German Submarines in 1915 and sunk. This started the spark of America declaring war on Germany later on in 1917
Treaty of Versailles
A treaty that gave the Allies the win in WWI and heavily punished Germany with very expensive war funds and restrictions such as their military, this treaty in the future would be the cause of WWII
Industrial Warfare
the mass production of new technology and machinery around WWI, led to a new era of combat in war as some countries had advantages over others due to their industrialization.
