History Final Flashcards

Direct election of U.S. senators

Banned alcoholic beverages (Prohibition)

Gave women the right to vote

Set dates for presidential/congressional terms and line of succession

Repealed Prohibition

Established presidential term limits

Settlement house founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889

Northerners who moved South after the Civil War during Reconstruction

Impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act by removing Edwin Stanton

Law limiting the president's power to remove officials without Senate approval

Democratic political machine in NYC controlled by Boss Tweed

Pendleton Act

Required government jobs to be awarded based on merit

Third-party movement of the 1890s supported mainly by farmers

Major labor strike involving steel workers

Vanderbilt-railroads, Carnegie-steel, Rockefeller-oil, J.P. Morgan-banking, Edison-electricity

Leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Violent labor protest in Chicago

Founder of the National Grange

First president of Hawaii

Created the Open Door Policy

Ruled that territories do not automatically receive constitutional rights

Chinese uprising against foreign influence in 1900

Equal trading rights for all nations in China

U.S. can intervene in Latin America to protect interests

1907 agreement limiting Japanese immigration

Taft's policy of increasing influence through investments

Highest tariff in U.S. history

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire

Zimmerman Note, unrestricted submarine warfare, Lusitania, Allied debt

Wilson (USA), Lloyd George (Britain), Orlando (Italy), Clemenceau (France)

Treaty that ended WWI

Conflict negotiated by Theodore Roosevelt

Restricted Southern and Eastern European immigrants

Blacks, immigrants, Catholics, Jews

Harding administration bribery scandal involving oil reserves

Plan to help farmers by raising farm prices

U.S. loans to Germany so Germany could pay war debts

Stock market crash on October 29, 1929

WWI veterans who marched for bonus payments

Insures bank deposits

Forced relocation of Japanese Americans into camps during WWII

Served as Code Talkers using Native languages

Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

Battle of Midway

Battle of Stalingrad

Secret project that developed the atomic bomb

Benefits for WWII veterans including education and housing

Supplied West Berlin during Soviet blockade

U.S. economic aid to rebuild Europe after WWII

Physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb

Arrested for teaching evolution

Delivered by William Jennings Bryan

Southern Democrats who regained control after Reconstruction

Purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867

Pardoned by Andrew Johnson

Crippled and devastated

Faced resistance from KKK, plantation owners, and Democrats

African Americans who migrated to Kansas after Reconstruction

Helped former slaves with food, shelter, education, and jobs

Radical Republican Reconstruction plan stricter than Lincoln's

Laws restricting African Americans' rights in the South

Limits on voting, jobs, movement, and legal rights

Loyalty to friends, poor judgment, little political experience, alcohol

Using Civil War memories to gain political support

Railroad scandal involving fake contracts and stock manipulation

Economic depression caused by overexpansion of railroads and industry

Giving jobs in exchange for political support

Ended Reconstruction by removing troops from the South

Established "separate but equal"

Segregation ruled constitutional

Laws enforcing racial segregation

Law restricting Chinese immigration

Growth of cities due to industrialization

Increased buying of goods; symbolized by department stores

Mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe

Chinese and Irish

Immigrants who came temporarily to earn money

Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe

Provided jobs and services for votes

Mainly city and clerical jobs

Applied "survival of the fittest" to business and society

Argued sea power leads to world power

American business interests and annexation efforts took control

Cuban revolt against Spain

Triggered by yellow journalism, De Lome Letter, and USS Maine explosion

Promised Cuba would be independent after the war

Filipino leader who first aided and later fought the U.S.

U.S. refused independence, leading to Filipino-American War

U.S. occupied Puerto Rico during Spanish-American War

Reform movement addressing social, political, and economic issues

Women who worked for reforms and social justice

Supported social reform efforts

Journalists who exposed corruption and abuses

Ban on alcohol

Upheld special workplace protections for women

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

Building up military strength

Agreements between nations for mutual support

Expansion of empires and control of territories

Strong loyalty to one's nation

Balkan tensions and assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Balkan Peninsula

1908

Access to the Mediterranean Sea

Assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914

Serbian secret organization linked to assassination

Assassin of Franz Ferdinand