Mid-Term Study Guide

Question 1

why did SLAVERY AND THE PLANTATION SYSTEM expand in the South and not the North

Answer 1

CLIMATE AND TOPOGRAPHY

NORTH: BUISNESS&INDUSTRIES,FACTORIES

SOUTH: PLANTATIONS

Question 2

Roosevelt corollary

Answer 2

extends Monroe, if needed come to aid to a country in western hemisphere

Question 3

explain the challenges labor unions faced in the 19th century

Answer 3

NO SUPPORT FROM FED. GOV., OR BUISNESS WORKERS.

Question 4

why did the US place few restrictions on immigration during the 1800s

Answer 4

NEED FOR CHEAP LABOR, FACTORY JOBS

economic growth fro factory jobs, expansion of working industry.

Question 5

Define imperialism

Answer 5

actions used by one nation to exercise political/ economic control over a smaller weaker nation

Question 6

what impact did the Radical Reconstruction Plan have on the South

Answer 6

Opposed southern society

Question 7

what did pres. Woodrow Wilson propose to protect nations’ rights to self-gov..

Answer 7

Woodrow proposed: “Wilson’s Fourteen Points”- Basis for peace, talks to end war
Goal: achieve a just and lasting peace; “ Peace w/o victory”
- outlined conditions/punishments for ending the war.

Question 8

what specific problems did Upton Sinclair attack in his novel The Jungle

what LEGISLATION was passed in response to Sincalir’s book?

Answer 8

appalling descriptions of the conditions in the meat packing industry CALLED UPTON SINCLAIR MUCKRACKER

Meat Inspection Act: Established standards for cleanliness and fed. inspection of meat sold

Question 9

What advantage did the Pana Canal provide trade and military shipping

Answer 9

Cut time in half

Question 10

Why was Teddy Roosevelt nicknamed the trustbuster

Answer 10

tried to limit power of monopolies and trusts political cartoon

Question 11

What event triggered the beginning of WWI in Europe

Answer 11

Assasination of Archduke Frnacis Ferdidnada, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary

Question 12

Describe the conflict known as “Bleeding Kansas”

Answer 12

OVER expansion of slavery and slave rights

Question 13

list the pull factors that drew immigrants to the US at the end of the 19th century and push factors of why immigrants left

Answer 13

Pull: Good Ed, Better life, religious freedom, better standard of life, JOBS

Push: Military persecution, religious persecution, famine, war , OPPRESSIVE KINGS

Question 14

how did industrialization and urbanization lead to the progressive involvement.

Answer 14

industrialization & urbanization brought about issues like POLITICAL MACHINES, PARTY BOSES, sanitation, crime nd political corruption

Question 15

Explain the gov. policy toward Native Americans during westward expansion

Answer 15

THEY WERE AN OBSTACLE, DESTROYED WAY OF LIFE

Question 16

explain 5 ex. of AMERICAN IMPERIALISM during the early 1900s

Answer 16

Monroe Doc., Roosevelt Corollary, Annexation of Hawaii, Big Stick Policy, Dollar Diplomacy.

Question 17

Annexation of Hawaii

Answer 17

MAKES HAWAII US TERRITORY THEN A STATE

Trade w/ Japan and China in 1800s lead to US having intrest in Hawaiian islands after negotiations in 1897, Prez. McKiney greeed to a treaty of annexation. Hawaii was annexed the following year

Question 18

Why did most immigrants settle?

Why did they settle in these areas?

Answer 18

NY, URBAN AREAS

Cities could offer MORE JOBS, bright lights, water, modern plumping, libraries, museums, theaters

Question 19

list economic goals of progressive movement

Answer 19

CORRECT ABUSE OF BIG BUISNESSES

Socialism, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Interstate Commerce

Question 20

describe the working conditions in early factories during the Industrial Revolution

Answer 20

LOUD, NOISY,DIRTY, NO WORKERS COMP., long hrs, exploited children and women, reg. women were fired, low wages

Question 21

List 3 major outcomes of civil war

Answer 21

1) Abolish Slavery
2) Union Preserved
3) New rights for former slaves, strengthended power of gov.

Question 22

describe an ex. of primary sources from the civil war

Answer 22

pictures, speeches, diaries, newspaper

Question 23

identify the disadvantages of the south in the civil war

Answer 23

1) LACKED SUPPLIES

2) LACKED RESOURCES AND MEN

Question 24

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 24

LOANS TO GET COUNTRIES TO AGREE WITH U.S.
ALL POWER TO EXPAND POWER AND INFLUENCE

Prez., William H Taft’s policy of influencing foreign nations through American Economic force rather than through military, Loans and investments were used to gain influence.

Question 25

what ere 2 major issues that divided the north and south prior to the civil war

Answer 25

Slavery

State’s rights

Question 26

What was the US foreign policy at the beginning of WWI

How was it threatened by the sinking of the Lusitania

Answer 26

Neutrality

Was carrying American passengers and was torpedoed by germany

Question 27

what factors contributed to the rise of industry in the late 1800s in the US

Answer 27

NEW TECH, MORE POP.

Question 28

Identify 2 advantages of the North in the Civil War

Answer 28

1) MORE PPL: rapid pop. growth, from 5 mill.-19 mill.
2) MORE FACTORIES,RR,TRANSPORTATION: Strong economy, didn’t rely on just one industry, diverse. Based on shipping, textiles, lumbar, furs & mining, etc.

Question 29

identify 2 ex. of new farming tech. during the time of Westward Expansion.

how did this new tech. affect the agricultural process.

Answer 29

steel plows, tractors, new farming tech.

made supply go up so prices went down

Question 30

define a primary source

how do primary and secondary sources differ?

Answer 30

Source, doc., proof of something that happened at the time the event occurred

Primary: EX OF PRIMARY SOURCE OF FREDERICK DOGLASS ‘S NARRATIVE, ANTI-SLAVERY NEWSPAPER CALLED “NORTH STAR”

Question 31

identify 3 POLITICAL REFORMS that were created to INCREASE THE PARTICIPATION OF CITIZENS IN THE GOV

Answer 31

Inititative- Enabled citizens to propose legislation and required legislature to vote on it

referendum- proposed legislation to be submitted to the voters for approval

Recall: Allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before end of term

Question 32

How did manifest destiny have a positive effect on growth of the US

Answer 32

New land, resources,crops

Question 33

Big stick policy

Answer 33

Roosevelt believed other countries would think twice if we had a strong military “big stick”

Question 34

Define nativism

why did nativist view immigrants as a threat

Answer 34

belief that native born people are superior and have more rights than immigrants. and their belief, they were against immigration

thought they’d steal their jobs since they’d work for little to no pay

Question 35

what was Lincoln’s MAIN goal in the union?

Answer 35

keep union together

“house divided against itself can not stand”

Question 36

Monroe Doc

Answer 36

No European colonization in northern hemishere

Question 37

Define sharecropping

After the Civil War, in what region of the country was sharecropping common?

Answer 37

When a farmer who works for land for an owner who provides equipment and seed and receive share of the crop.
Common in the south

Question 38

define muckrakers

Answer 38

journalists who uncovered abuses and corruption in a society

Question 39

how did the YELLOW JOURNALISM spark the Spanish-American war.

Answer 39

painted spainards as savages, feeding prisoners to dogs etc., Americans believed these stories and was the fuel to the fire to go to war.

Question 40

how were native Americans impacted by Westward Expansion

Answer 40

REZ, broken treaties, loss of hunting grounds for buffalo

Question 41

Define social darwinism

Answer 41

survival of the fittest in business

belief that the strongest and fittest people would survive strongly enforced indivisualism.

Question 42

What effect did the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on Northerners?

Answer 42

MAKE PEOPLE IN NORTH ANTI-SLAVERY

Written by Harriet Beecher Stove, anti-slavery movement book that empathized with slaves. Persuaded northerners to abolish slavery even more.

Question 43

why did the US refuse to sign the Treaty of Versallies after WWI

Answer 43

didn’t want to get involved in foregin problems

Question 44

Describe the SPECIFIC EVENT that led to U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN WWI.

Answer 44

Zimmermann Telegram: British uncovered secret note from Germany to mexico promising US Territory (AZ,NM,NY) that was lost during Mexican-American war

Question 45

Define manifest destiny

how did the dev. of the transcontinental RR contribute to the goals of manifest destiny

Answer 45

Manifest Destiny- Idea that the nation was meant to spread to the pacific, go west

HOMESTEAD,TRANSCONTINENTAL: MANIFEST DESTINY
Made it easier for Americans to expand west, better then over methods like by foot

Question 46

what advantage did businessmen like Carnegie and J.D. Rockefeller create by forming trusts and monopolies

Answer 46

TRUST&MONOPOLIES ELIMINATED COMPETITION

Trust: allowed to reduce comp.

Monopolies: Allowed him to control and dominate prices in an industry

Question 47

what was the homestead act

Answer 47

Made available 160 ACRES of land to any settlers that HAD TO STAY ON THE LAND FOR 5 YRS