American History Honors Unit 5 study guide

He invented the roll film.

They invented the worlds first successful airplane.

A architect that made plans for the development of cities like Chicago and downtown Washington D.C.

Founded the Niagara movement. Thought that blacks needed equality right away.

founded the Tuskegee university. Thought blacks would get equality once they were properly educated.

Number of kindergartens went from 200 in 1880 to 3000 in 1900. Number of blacks in high school went from 1% in 1890 to only 3% in 1910.

Founded by W.E.D Du Bois in 1905 to provide liberal arts education to blacks.

Founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881 to provide liberal arts education to blacks.

The Supreme Court ruled that the segregation of races was legal and did not violate the 14th amendment.

Said that even if a man failed the literacy test or could not afford the poll tax if his grandfather or father had been eligible to vote before January 1st 1867 then he could vote.

Said that racial segregation was put into effect in schools, hospitals, parks, and transportation systems throughout the south.

A test giving to people who wanted to vote it had a reading test and then you had to answer questions.

A annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote.

A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer.

A store that had several floors of a lot of things that you need.

Aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in american life.

a term given by Roosevelt for a investigative reporter uncovering corruption in company's.

Said that congress will have the power to lay and collect income tax.

Said that the senate will have 2 people elected by the people for 6 years.

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.

In college there could be 8 men and 22 women. now that women had college educations marriage was not there only way in life and half women who went to college never married.

It was for women's right to vote. They would do walks to try to let people now they wanted to vote.

National American Woman Suffrage Association; founded in 1890 to help women win the right to vote.

A position sufficiently conspicuous to provide an opportunity to speak out and be listened to. Term made by Roosevelt.

the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs

In 1906 a act passed which dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers and created the program of federal meat inspection.

First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially misused against labor unions

It was a act that strengthened the Sherman antitrust act.

A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil. Took on Rockefeller.

A muckracking journalist that wrote The Jungle in 1906 about the meat packing industry.

Woodrow Wilson beat Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft. Wilson won 435 electoral votes cause he said that monopoly's need to go.

head of the U.S. Forest Servic under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them.

It was what the progressive party became known as. The party Roosevelt ran in for the election of 1912.

It was for material, power, territory expansion, military base, and economic growth.

U.S. wanted Hawaii for business and so Hawaiian sugar could be sold in the U.S. duty free, Queen Liliuokalani opposed so Sanford B. Dole overthrew her in 1893, William McKinley convinced Congress to annex Hawaii in 1898.

The US bought it from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, it was rich in resources mainly timber.

Competitors against each other in a circulation war; practitioners of yellow journalism.

Spanish minister to us, wrote a letter that was exposed to the public criticizing president McKinley embarrassed and resigned.

Yellow journalism, imperialism, Spain brutality to the Cubans, explosion of the USS Maine.

volunteer soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish American War.

It was amendment that the U.S said Cuba had to have. it said they can make treaties with anyone , Cuba couldn't go into debt they couldn't repay, and U.S could buy naval and refueling stations on Cuba.

Ended military rule and set up a civil government in Puerto Rico.

They where a group of rebels called the boxers and they killed hundreds of foreigners. Within two months international forces( Britain, France, Germany, and japan) put down the Boxer Rebellion.

Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South and Central America by using military force.

A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China.

Roosevelt felt the U.S needed a canal cutting across central america. Before work began the U.S had to get permission from Colombia. Bunau Varilla helped organize a Panamanian rebellion against Colombia when negotiations broke down.