Post-Civil Era Flashcards
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that portrayed the horrors of slavery.
Truman Doctrine
President Truman promised to help any country fight communism.
Seneca Falls Convention
Held in New York in 1848, this convention is seen as the first organized step in the women’s suffrage movement
Marshall Plan
A plan for how the United States would help Western Europe after World War II.
21st Amendment
Repealed the Eighteenth Amendment in 1933 by ending prohibition (Remember with: you need to be 21 to Drink)
Suffrage / Franchise
The right to vote in political elections.
Labor Unions
fought for better wages, acceptable hours, better working conditions, health benefits, help for workers who were hurt or retired, and the end of child labor.
Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
At the Seneca Falls Convention, a paper discussed how women were treated unfairly and how to fix it, including giving women the vote.
Fugitive Slave Act
Required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their owners
Abolitionists
People who believed slavery was wrong and immoral
Martin Luther King, Jr
Became a national hero for civil rights in the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lucretia Mott
She supported women’s rights and helped create the Seneca Falls Convention and Declaration of Rights and Sentiments with Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
National Park system
The National Park system was made twice as big by President Theodore Roosevelt. He also passed a law that lets him and future presidents name places and buildings as historical landmarks. The federal government would then own and protect these places.
U-Boats
German submarines which were used in WW I and WW II
Decolonization
When a settlement that has been controlled by a foreign country, usually Europe, fights for its autonomy and freedom from its mother country.
Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)
In the 1950s, when he was a Senator in Texas, he was in charge of the NASA Space program in Houston, Texas. After John F. Kennedy was killed in 1963, he went on to become President of the United States. Designed the plans of the Great Society to fight poverty.
Pullman Strike
In 1894, workers for the Pullman company went on a national railroad strike to protest how they were treated.
Women’s Suffrage
The right of women to vote in political elections.
Militarism
Countries get stronger in their military.
D-Day
The invasion of Europe began on June 6, 1944, when the Allied Forces landed on a beach in Normandy.
Bleeding Kansas
Congress split Kansas into two parts and gave each one the choice of whether or not to allow slavery. This led to violent conflicts in Kansas.
Haymarket Square
the location of a violent labor conflict in Chicago
Albert Einstein
A famous scientist who moved to the United States from Germany during World War II and warned world leaders about the risks of nuclear weapons.
Rosa Parks
The Montgomery Bus Boycott began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus because she was a fighter for African American rights.
Lowell Female Labor Reform Association
The main goals were to get a ten-hour workday put in place and to get the Massachusetts state government to look into working conditions in factories.
Mao Zedong
In 1949, Mao Zedong became the leader of the People’s Republic of China.
Sarah G. Bagley
Founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in 1844.
Dust Bowl
In the late 1930s, there was a string of very bad droughts and dust storms. Many farmers from Oklahoma and Texas had to move to California to find work.
Little Rock 9
In 1957, the first black children went to a public school after Brown v. Topeka Board of Education made de-segregation the law of the land.
Axis Powers of WWII
Nazi Germany, Japan, Italy
Vietnam War
From 1955 to 1975, the U.S. helped the non-communist government. However, under huge pressure at home, the U.S. finally got out of the war, which made it easy for the North Vietnamese to beat the weak South Vietnamese army.
Abby Kelley Foster
Abolitionist, feminist, and public speaker. She worked with abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and was a voice for the Anti-Slavery society and the women’s rights movement.
Bay of Pigs
A failed military invasion of Cuba in 1961.
White Flight
When schools and buildings stopped being segregated in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, many wealthy white families moved out of cities. This was called the “white flight.”
Globalism
Planning for economic and foreign affairs on a global scale
Tenement Housing
New York City and other large cities developed low-rise buildings with narrow flats to house immigrants. Most immigrants lived in poor housing, which sometimes lacked basic utilities and space for their large families. Tenement housing was a major issue throughout the Progressive Era, when cities flourished and wealth discrepancies increased. Wealthier, usually female activists advocated for better living conditions for immigrants and others.
Vladimir Lenin
Led the Bolshevik Party in Russia and eventually gained control to form the Soviet Union in 1922
Lucy Stone
Gifted speaker; a spokesperson for the women’s rights movement and the Anti-Slavery society.
John Brown
Most controversial abolitionist; led a group on a raid of a weapons arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
Nationalism
A strong devotion to one’s country, a strong sense of patriotism
Progressive Movement
A effort by people from the middle class to fix a system that had been messed up by the wealthy abusing their power.
Ronald Reagan
He was elected in 1981, which gave the right movement a big boost.
Wagner Act
Guaranteed workers’ basic rights to join unions, deal as a group, and go on strike if necessary. This law is also called the National Labor Relations Act of 1935.
The Liberator
A newspaper dedicated to the abolition of slavery
