| A | B |
|---|
| social darwinisim | "survival of the fittests" |
| TR & conservation | TR passed laws to preserve nature in america and its resources... started the Nations Reclemation act and forrest reservatin act... helped save america, stopped abuse of resources and protect wildlife |
| Chief joseph | leader of the nex perice, fought the federal gov. instead of leaving his home, finally surrendered |
| geronimo | led the apache in a fierce struggle against the gov. until his capture |
| fighting bob lafollette | non reformer from wisconsin, radical ideas, had the wisconsin idea- served in congress and senate |
| zimmerman telegraph | german forces offered mexico a deal. if mexico would join germany in an alliance against the us, germany would restore territory in new mexico, texas, arizona to mexico. wilson made this offer public, and german hatred became stronger |
| speak easy | "underground" bars where illegal alchol was sold with dancing |
| wounded knee | place where the last indian battle took place |
| new immigration | mcuh larger in terms of numbers mostly catholic and jewish from southern and eastern europe 1880 1920 |
| nativisim | people who didn't want immigrants coming in because of jobs, economy |
| ramona | by helen hunt jackson about indian life in california |
| the jungle | written by upton sinclair, talked about poor facilites in meat packing plants.... led to meat inspection act |
| charles lindberg | flew over the pacific without stopping, new american hero |
| conspicious consumption | huge houses, lots of material things for the rich |
| spoils system | under the spolis systerm, politicians used there power to help themsleves and there freinds |
| 5 causes of world war 1 | 1. imperialisim: countries wanted other countries taht didn't belong to them. nationalisim: countries tried to unite others with their own beliefs millitariasim: arms races Arch duke ferdinand:assisnated by terrorists |
| triple entente | germany joined austria -hungary and italy |
| doughboys | name for american soldiers becuaase of there hats |
| sedition act | prohibited any speech that was disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive about the gov., the flag, constitution or amer forces |
| treaty of versailles | forced germany to accept fault for the war, stripped germany of its colonies, coal fields, reduced germany's army, crippled its navy, and made germany pay 33 billion dollars to the allies |
| palmer raids | arrested suspected communists without warrents and denied lawyers, usually no evidence |
| leyte gulf | largest naval battle in WW2 |
| manhattan project | teams of scientists to work on a bomb before hitlersscientists... four years built the atom bomb |
| big three | winston churchill, FDR, joseph stalin |
| united nations | police force for the world to replace leauge of nations |
| internment camps | japanese americans put in prison camps without any possesiionsand had to seel the businessess |
| proggressivisim vs. populisim | 1)populisis drew its strength from rural areas, while proggresives drew it from cites 2)populists were poor and uneducated, prog were middle class and well educated 3)populists wanted gov. owned industries, prog stayed in poplitcal mainstream 4)pop failed, prog succeeded |
| urbanization | people moving from country city because of jobs, money, transportation, water, homes |
| caarpetbaggers | yankees went to south to help them out after the war |
| dawes act | aimed to "americanize" the indians |
| hoovervilles | place where homeless americans lived while hoover was in office |
| sussex plan | germans pledged to not sink merchant ships without warning and without saving human lives |
| prohibition | volstead act, making alcohol illegal (18th ammendment) |
| little big horn | "custers last stand" the sioux killed all 256 soldiers of custers |
| old immigration | mostly protestants from northern and western europe 1800-1880 |
| KKK | orginization for white powers, hated blacks and other minorities |
| "a century of dishonor" | written by helen hunt jackson, talked about how we treated the indians |
| dred scott | slave dred scott sued owner for keeping him a slave in free terriotory... lost, supreme court ruled he can't sue because he's not a citizen |
| eddie rickenbacher | american war pilot |
| andrew carnagie | generous to libraries |
| muckracker | writers who exposed corruption in business and polotics |
| NAACP | national assosciation for the advancment of colored people- secured blacks legal rights by giving them laywers, and pushed laws for against discrimination |
| triple alliance | france russia britian |
| roughriders | TR's army |
| espionage act | punished anyone found guilty of helping the enemy, hindering recruitment, or inciting revolt |
| bootlegging | sale of illegal liquor |
| henry ford | started making affordable cars called Model T's |
| battle of the bulge | germany drives caught allies off guard, so allies had to retreat, creating bulges in the lines |
| el alamein | british forces under bernard montgomery halted the german advance |
| D-day | american forces landed in normandy |
| allied forces | us britain and soviet union |
| okinawa | bloodies battle on an island, many losses from american and japanese troops, US won |
| bataan death march | hapaneese led american and fillipino prisoners of war on a forced march of 65 miles over tortures terrain . up to 10,000 allied prisinors were clubbed, shot, or starved to death. |
| reconstruction | reconstruction of the south after the civil war, new ammendments, reconstruction act of 1867 |
| scalawags | person that bennifiteed from carpet baggers for money |
| assimilation | "absorbed" (culture) |
| bonus march | jobless veterans walked at washington dc to get insurance policy promied by congress... when demands not met... army vs. veterans- 2 dead |
| womens suffrage | earned in 1920 ammendment 19 |
| reservations | place set aside by federal gov. for indians to live on, usually bad farm land that nobody wanted |
| ellis island | place where immigrants had medical exams, screening and questions to enter NYC |
| lynchings | punishment mostly used by KKK for blacks |
| "grapes of wrath" | protested the hard lot of dust bowl farmers |
| scopes monkey trail | scopes taught evoltuion instead of christian beliefs, john scopes arrested and convicted of 100 dollars |
| plains indian | stripped of homeland, depended on buffallo |
| gilded age | wealthy were very wealthy, poor very poor |
| imperialisim | establishing political or econmoic control over other countries |
| causes of the depression | 1. unequal distribution of wealth 2. high tarrifs and war debts 3. over production in industry and agriculture 4. inconsistant monetary policy 5. dust bowl 6.stockmarket crash |
| GI's | american soldiers |
| league of nations | an orginization of nations established at the end of ww1 to maintain world stability |
| volstead act | provided enforcement for prohibition |
| assembly line | a new way to put things together invented by henry ford |
| midway | japaneese armada of more than 100 ships attacked american naval base on midway island.. we won, done by warplanes |
| island hopping | taking over japaneese islands slowly to hurt japan |
| stalingrad | battle fought in buildings and allies between german and soviet troops in town of stalingrad |
| axis forces | germany italy japan |
| kamikazes | japaneese suicide pilots |
| facisim | dont like democracy |
| W.E.B. Dubois | black historian, formed niagra movement, niagra members joined NAACP, first black student to trecieve doctorate from harvard |
| stockmarket crashed | over speculation, margin buying of stocks with credit, unethical stock buying pool |
