| A | B |
|---|
| political | Goverment |
| economic | $, jobs |
| social | having to do w/ society, people, culture |
| diplomacy | solving problems peacefully |
| Impact of panama canal | quicker travel, better trade, and more trade w/ South America |
| stocks | shares in business |
| yellow journalism | journalizm is exaggeration on an article so people would be interested |
| social darwinism | application of Darwin's law of "Survival of the Fittest" to human society and types of gov't |
| open door policy | a policy set fourth by the US advocating equal trading opportunitys for all nations dealing w/ China |
| foreign policy | a nation's way of dealing w/ other nations |
| imperialism | one person ruling or controlling other people |
| Results of Spanish American War | more land, US won, Cuba, we got the Philipianes |
| Nationalism | love for and loyalty to one's country |
| Roosevelt Corollary | (1904) corollary to the monroe doctrine in which the US clamed the right to intervene in us affairs of other nations of the western Hemisphere |
| Arbitration | practice in which two sides in a dispute let an impartial 3rd party settle the issue |
| Abraham Lincoln | president during the Civil war, emencipate (free) slaves, keep union, bery forgiving |
| 10% Plan | if 10% or blacks vote they can rejoin the union |
| Ku Klux Klan | wanted to control elections, |
| Regulation | to control |
| Factors PULLING people to America | rumors: street paved w/ gold, land of oppotunities, "Golden Door", cheap land, jobs, freedom |
| Spoil System | Practice giving gov't jobs to political backers |
| Goals of Progressives | help poor, expained democracy |
| Factors PUSHING people out of Europe | over population, poverty, slums, no jobs |
| Dawes Act | (1887) law that sought to make Indians give up their tradtions and accept white cultures |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | Sioux Indians vs. US army led by Gen. Custer, (1876) Indians ambush army and slaughter them "Custer's Last Stand" |
| Cause of Spanish American War | USS Manie blew up, Yellow Journalizm |
| Arguments Against Imperialism | less control on people, proverty, could start war, require US to spread out troops |
| Arguments in favor of Imperialism | better trade, more $, world power, more land, nationilism, over pouplation, natural resourses, mercatilism |
| Problems of Cities | proverty, slums, factories, jobs |
| Direct Primary | a primary in which the people (not party conventios) chose canadites for elections |
| Piecework | work paird by the # of objects made |
| Pogrom | and organize robbery and massacres of Jews |
| Reform | to do over |
| Anti-Semitism | discrimination against Jews |
| Ethnicity | Cultural background |
| tenement | an apartment building desighned to house large #'s of people as cheaply as possible |
| Immigrants | leaves home contrey to come to another contrey |
| 16th Amendment | Income tax |
| Slum | a crowded, unsafe and unhealthy neighborhood in a city |
| melting pot theory | America blending w/ different cultures |
| 17th Amendment | Direct election of senetors |
| quota | a limit |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | law passed in 1890 to prevent corporations from gaining complete control of a type of buisness |
| civil service | gov't jobs to which people are appointed rather than elections |
| Nativism | a person hostile to immigrants |
| THE JUNGLE | a book made by Upton Sinclar, tells about things in food and working conditions |
| Suffrage | right to vote |
| discrimination | unfair treatment b/c of someones: race, religon, culture, age, gender |
| Rural | contrey area |
| Munkrakers | a name gibin to writers who expose corruption in America society around 1900 |
| Steerage | the lowest part of a ship |
| Urban | city area |
| Jane Adams | opened hull house, progressive |
| Freedmen's Bureau | the end of the war federal agency distribute supplies to South |
| Sharecropping | System in which a farmer rented land, tools, seeds, and housing form land owners in return for some of there crops |
| Effect of Industrialization | increace economy, increaced jobs, increaced, immigrants, expansion of cities |
| cause of westward movement | more land (free), better farming land |
| Transcontinental Railroad | rail road that goes across the continent and delivers products |
| Effect of westward movement | Native American reservations, Indian Wars, distruction on buffalo |
| Impeachment | to take someone out of office (President, etc) |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that made segregation offical in public facilities in the south |
| Boycott | refuse to buy |
| Strike | a stoppage of work |
| Ellis Island | the immigration center in NYC's harbor |
| Lobbyist | person who represents a business: tries to influance law makers |
| Philanthropist | a wealthy person who donates $ to educational and cultural institutions |
| entrepreneur | a person who stars a business |
| Sweatshops | a shop where workers labor long hours under poor condtitons for low wages |
| Conservative | wants almost no change |
| Moderate | a person who oppsed extrem change |
| homestead act | (1862) law that offered western land for settlement in return for improvement of land |
| trust | business organization that controls many businesses in the same industry |
| Effect of destruction of Buffalo | Indians starved |
| Patent | a guarantee issue by the gov't giving an investor all profits form their inventors for a lengh of time |
| civil rights | the rights of citizens |
| assimilation | adoption of dominant culture |
| monopoly | complete conrtol over a product or service |
| scalawag | insulting term used to deside a white sourtherner who supported Reconstrution |
| Radical Republicans | divide south into military districts, every Af. American could vote, very harsh plain for Reconstrution |
| Radical | one who takes an extrem change |
| 14th amendment | amendment declaring that native born or naturalized persons have same rights |
| 15th amendment | declared that the right to vote shouldn't be denied |
| resercation | an area designated for use by a special group |
| labor union | organization of workers that negotiates w/ company owners about wages and working conditions |
| 13th amendment | abolishs slavery |
| Indigineous | native to an area |
| capital | $ used for investment |
| corporations | a buisness charterd by a state and owned by share holding investors |
| Amnesty | offical pardon |
| segregation | seperated by race |
| carpetbagger | insulting term used to describe a northener who mover to the south during reconstrution |
| Andrew Carnegie | manager of a steel company, invented a new type of steel |
| black codes | amied to return former slaves to plantations |
| union | North |
| John Rockefeller | Owner of a steel company, "Standered Oil" |
| Andrew Johnson | impeached (tried), at odds w/ Radical Republicans, president, in the middle of reconstrution, follows Linclon |
| Confederacy | South |
| Rough Riders | a group of people like cowboys, policemen, army and navy guys etc. they fought in the war and Theodore Roosevel was the leader |
| Theodore Roosevelt | a presdent, made up the roughriders, was in the Spanish Americans war |
