Third Great Awakining Terms Flashcards
Susan B. Anthony
A reformer of the 19th and early 20th century. Known for her advocacy of women’s suffrage. She was also active in the cause of abolitionism before the Civil War.
Big stick in diplomacy
International negotiations backed by the threat of force. Comes from Theodore Roosevelts proverb. “speak softly and carry a big stick“
Big Ten
A group of high-performing Midwestern universities known for high academic standards. And keen athletic competition. 10 of 11 R State University, for instance Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Northwestern University is a sole private school.
Boer war
A war between British and Dutch settlers (Boer) and what is now South Africa, fought from 1899 through 1902. One by the British. The country was united in 1910.
Boers
Dutch settlers in South Africa, Africa, also known as African years. The. Boer were repeatedly. Driven farther inland by British settlers. The. Boer we’re finally defeated in the Boer war. In 1899 through 1902, the British won, the country was united in 1910.
Lizzie Borden
A woman charged with the ax murder of her dad and stepmom in the in the 1890s. In Fall River, Massachusetts. A jury found her not guilty, the crime has never been solved.
Willian Jennings Brian
Political leader of the late 19th through early 20th century. Lost three presidential election elections as a Democrat. He got a lot of votes in the south/Southwest. At the 1896 Democratic national convention he delivered the much remembered “cross of gold” speech in favor of unlimited coinage against the “gold standard” he was a fundamentalist in religion, and he oppose the teaching of the “theory of evolution” in schools and assisted in the persecution at the scopes trial.
George Washington Carver
An African-American scientist, and agricultural innovator of the late 19th and early 20th century. He helped the economy of the south by a developing 100+ ways to use the peanut and sweet potato.
Grover Cleveland
A democratic party political leader of the 19th through 20th century who was president from 1885 through 1889. And again from 1893 through 1897. The only president to have served non-consecutive terms up to that point. He was known because he fought against corruption of the federal government and his efforts to solve national financial problems.
Cross of Gold speech
Spoke by a presidential candidate, she was a democrat. He criticize the gold standard. And advocated inflating the currency by the free coinage of silver. Popular among the poor farmers. “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor of this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.“ he was then nominated for president by the Democratic Party.
Czar/ tsar
The name of the rulers of Russia from the 16th century until the Russian revolution. Czar ruled as an absolute monarch. Until the early 20th century. 1600 through 2000s. When parliament was established in Russia, can be spelled Czar TSAR.
Daws act of 1887
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and land honors by cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. This law would “civilized” than Indians. By treating them as individuals. They wanted to get them ready for citizenship. Well intended, but hurt in the end, whites took most of all the Indians “ good hunting grounds “
Eugene V Deb
Political leader of 19 through 20th century he was the president for the socialist party five times. And President in 1894, he illegally encouraged a railway strike. Clarence Darrow was his defense attorney. In World War I, he was imprisoned for his criticism of the war.
John Dewey
Philosopher and educational reformer of the late 19th and early 20th century. He followed pragmatism which became the basis of progressive education.
Dreyfus affair
A scandal in France in the late 19th century involving Jewish army officer, Adolf Dreyfus. He was falsely convicted of betraying Francis’s military secrets. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Everyone was deeply divided over him. Emily wrote an article to help prove his innocence.” J’accue” helped clear him of all charges. Promoted in the army, and he was honored by the people.
Dubois web
An African-American author of the late 19th and early 20th century. Radical thinker or racial questions. Helped found the national association for the advancement of colored people. NAACP, he criticized Booker T. Washington and said that “black should accept their inferior status “and that they should “accommodate for the white people “he was a communist and wrote a book called “the souls of black folk “ we didn’t like him that much.
Wyatt Earp
A law officer from the late 19th to early 20th century. Served at the US commercial in Dodge city Kansas and took part in a famous gun fight at the OK chorale in tombstone Arizona in 1881.
Fannie farmer
An educator, author, and cooking expert of the late late 19th to early 20th century. She wrote the first distinctively American cookbook ( the Boston cooking school cookbook.)
Fin de siècle
The end of the 19th century. The phrase is French for “end of century “it is particularly used to describe the periods, self consciousness, artistic movements, and sophisticated despair that was popular at the time. Oscar Wilde is one of the best known to say this.
Charlotte P. Gilman
A reformer and feminist of the late 19th to early 20th century. She wrote “women’s and economics “in 1898, a plea for female economic independence. She believed that women were discouraged from earning a living themselves, and that made them overly dependent on men. She believed that just because women could vote now didn’t mean they were equals. Especially in the 1970s through 1980s.
William Randolph hurst
A journalist and newspaper publisher of the late 19th through early 20th century. He was a pioneer in the sensational reporting called “yellow journalism” in the 1890s. His newspaper helped whip up the public hostility against Spain. Which led to the Spanish American war.
Ivy League
A group of eight old distinguished colleges and universities in the east. Known for their Ivy covered brick buildings. The members are Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, barn and Yale University and Darmouth College and the university of Pennsylvania.
Jack the Ripper
A criminal in London in the late 19th century apprehend responsible for several gasoline murders by slashing. His identity is unknown. He is a terrible human being.
Jim Crow
A descriptive term for the segregation of institutions, businesses, hotels, and restaurants and so forth. It also refers to the laws that required racial segregation.
Helen Keller
An educator and author of the 20th century. Though blind and deaf from an early age, she learned to read right and communicate with sign language.
Klondike gold Rush
A rush of thousands of people in the 1890s towards the Klondike Gold mining District in Northwest Canada, after gold was discovered.
William McKinley
A political leader of the late 19 through 20th centuries. He was president from 1897 through 190 one. He was a republican. He lead the USA through the Spanish American war. Although he didn’t want to have war against Spain. He was pure pressured by the American Republic into it. The US annex the Philippines in his presidency. He was assassinated by an anarchist shortly after his reelection. Often remembered as a time of rising American jingoism and imperialism.
Muckrakers
Authors who specialize in exposing corruption in businesses, government and elsewhere. Especially active in the late 19 through early 20th centuries.
Carry nation
A social reformer of the late 19th through early 20th centuries. Who argued forcefully for abstinence from alcohol. Known for taking action, she would take hatchets to smash beer kegs with her followers.
Annie Oakley
A performer in wild West shows around the turn of the 20th century, famous for her marksmanship, she threw a card into the air and she saw it before it hit the ground. The musical Annie get your gun is loosely based on her and experiences.
Sandra day O’Conner
The first woman serve on the Supreme Court. She was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Robert E Perry
An explore of the Arctic in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. He claims that he in his team were the first ones to reach the north pole in 1909. It is now doubted if he was the first.
Plessy verses Ferguson
A case decided by the Supreme Court in the 1890s. The court held that a state could require segregation in public facilities. If this facilities offered the two races were equal. The courts requirement was known as “separate but equal “. It was overturned in 1954 in “Brown versus Board of education“
Populist party
A third movement party that spring up in the 1890s. True support from disgruntled farmers. We are known for advocating the unlimited coinage of silver. The party endorsed William Jennings, Brian. A champion of free President election of 1896.
Remember the main
The slogan of the Spanish American war. The US battleship main mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana Cuba, in 1898. It was stirred up by yellow press. The American public blamed the sinking on Spain. Which then on Cuba. President William McKinley, who had opposed or yielded to public pressure and asked Congress to declare war.
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President. President from 19 oh one through 1909. Was governor of New York in 1899. Was elected vice president in 1900. When William McKinley was assassinated, he was president. He later became president on his own. He upheld many of the interest of the progressive movement. When he was happy, he would say “bully“ Was very physical and said “America should speak softly and carry a big step” he received the Nobel peace prize in 1906 after he settled Russia Japanese war two agreement. Construction of the Panama Canal began during his president presidency. He ran unsex unsuccessfully for president in 1912.
Roughriders
The nickname of volunteer group of cavalry led by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American war. They were famous for a victorious charge in the battle of San Paul Hill in Cuba, Teddy became president after this. He was leader.
Russo-Japanese war
Father in 1904 through 1905 between Russia and Japan over rival territorial claims. In the war, Japan emerged as a world power. Teddy Roosevelt helped and the fighting with a treaty. He won Nobel peace prize for it.
Sherman antitrust act
A federal law passed in 1890 that committed the American government to opposing monopoly’s, the law, prohibits, contract, combinations, or conspiracies. “In the restrain of commerce“ under the authority of the Sherman antitrust act, the federal government initiated suits against the standard oil company in the American tobacco company.
Spanish American war
Far between Spain and USA in 1898. Began as the intervention for Cuba, Spain was mistreating Cuban natives. USA didn’t like that. The sinking of the main lead up to the war. USA one easily. Teddy Roosevelt served in the war, with the rough riders.The US occupied Porter, Puerto Rico, Guam in the Philippines in the war and gain temporary control over Cuba.
Speak softly and carry a big stick
A proverb quoted by Theodore Roosevelt as a brief statement of his approach to foreign policy.
The public be Damned
Where is the attributed to William H Vanderbilt railroad executive of the late 19th century. They were supposedly spoken to a newspaper reporter. It is often been used when business owners have been accused of jerking their responsibility towards the public.
Queen Victoria
A British queen, during her reign, Brittin reached new height in industrial and colonial power and diplomatic influence. She was clean at the age of 18. She married Prince Albert, who supported her. after his early death, she was an official morning for 40 years until her death. She was known for her in empire impartiality towards the two leading political parties of Britain. The liberals and the conservatives. Which both produced extraordinary leaders during her ring. She was also known for establishing strict standards of personal morality. She was diseased
Victorian period
The period of British history when Queen Victoria ruled. Includes the entire second half of the 19th century, when Britain was its most powerful nation in the world. Known for a stern morality. Confidence in British prosperity. Produced a lot of writers and thinkers. The British were righteous
Booker T. Washington
African-American educator headed Tuscany Institute, a college for African-Americans in Alabama. Urged African-Americans to concentrate on economic gains rather than the pursuit of social and political equality with the whites, wrote the book “up from slavery”
The white man’s burden
A phrase used to justify European imperialism in the late 19th to early 20th century. It’s the title of a poem by Rudy on Kipling. And implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift people of color.
Wounded knee
A creek in South Dakota where US soldiers killed large numbers of Dakota native Americans Sioux in 1890. They were resisting the settlement of the area and then fled to Montana. We brought them back. Then we fought, we killed 200 including women and children. The massacre was the last major military conflict between white and Native Americans.
Yellow journalism
Inflammatory irresponsible reporting by newspapers. Prodigiously those ran by William Randolph hurst. Worked to insight hatred of Spain. Newspapers that had this are called “yellow press”
Yellow peril
I suppose a threat to the US from Japan and China. Late 19th century, at a time where Japanese and Chinese immigration was being met with resistance by the American public.
