Mid-Term Review

Miss SpringbornTeam 6January 2013

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Women’s Suffrage-• The women’s

movement that worked to get women the right to vote in all states

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What did women do to gain suffrage?

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• Women campaigned to get the right to vote state by state and later worked to get a constitutional amendment. They lobbied congress, wrote articles, protested in front of White House, hunger strikes, arrested, speeches, marches/parades

Mass Production

• The making of product in mass quantity, leads to the reduction in the price of a good because you can make more of it

Advantages and Disadvantages of assembly line

• Advantages: the price of goods will drop, more people can afford the product

• Disadvantages: Less choice with the product in terms of design, quality can be less when things are mass produced

Reasons immigrants came to the US-

• PULL FACTORS• They wanted a start at a new

life, they had the chance to own land, freedom of religion

• MORE JOBS!!!• More opportunities

Reasons immigrants left their native country-

• PUSH FACTORS• ‘Famines, hard luck, no jobs,• war in their home country• persecution by their own

government of their beliefs• Escaping Poverty

Who exposed child labor-

• Lewis Hine with his photographs

Primary Election

• When the people get to choose their parties candidates to run for office

Rockefeller

• Owner of Standard Oil Company• Robber Baron• Had a monopoly on oil industry• Made millions with his company

Ida Tarbell

• Wrote the novel The History of Standard Oil

• Exposed Rockefeller’s monopoly• With her writings she tried to break up

this monopoly

Jim Crow Laws

• The rules in the south that kept blacks and whites separate in public facilities

• For example: Separate bathrooms for whites and blacks

Segregation

• The separation of blacks and whites in the south

Plessy v. Ferguson

The legal court case that allowed the separation of the races in the south

This made it legally ok to keeps blacks and whites separate in the south

MAKES separate but equal ok

Seneca Falls

• The location of the first meeting of the Women’s Rights Movement

• Where they signed the Declaration of Sentiments demanding women’s suffrage

Grandfather clause, poll taxes, literacy tests

• The different laws and rules used to keep African Americans in the south from voting

Muckrakers-

• The group that wanted to expose corruption in business and government

• They dug up dirt and corruption

The Jungle

• Novel written by Upton Sinclair

• It exposed the Meat Packing Industry

• Lead to the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act

• Also lead to the passing of the Meat Inspection Act

Chinese Exclusion Act

• Law passed in 1882 that stopped Chinese immigrants from coming into our country

• Discriminating law

Emma Lazuarus poem

• Poem on the Statue of Liberty

• It welcomes in the new immigrants

• Words of hope and inspiration to the immigrants entering at Ellis Island

Immigration settled in large cities because-

• There were many jobs in factories

• There were housing opportunities with other immigrants in tenement houses

• That is where most immigrants entered the country

Ethnic neighborhoods-

• Where groups of immigrants settled together to be around each other and support each other

Ellis Island

• The place in New York City that processed new immigrant coming into our country

What was the economic impact of the transcontinental railroad?• It allowed for settlers to move

west and settle the frontier• It allowed for goods to be

shipped back and forth at an affordable rate

• Helped expand interstate commerce between states

Sherman Anti-Trust vs. Clayton Anti-Trust Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust act went after monopolies and trusts but was too weak to work

• It was replaced by the Clayton Anti-trust act that was stronger and made it easier for the government to go after monopolies

Why do people buy stock in a company?

• They want to invest in the company and make money when that company does well

• They share in the profits

Monopolies-

Complete control over an industry

Rockefeller was a robber baron?

• He had a monopoly over the standard oil industry

• Put comepetitors out of business• Charged too much for his product and

made huge profits

Free-Enterprise System-

• Allowed for private ownership of business

• Government traditionally stayed out of business

Urbanization-

• The rapid growth of industry and cities

• Cities became large filled with immigrants and jobs

• This also leads to dirty conditions and crowded tenement houses

Industrial Revolution-

• The period of rapid growth in industry • Machine labor begins to replace hand

labor• Mass production of goods

Why did the government give companies money to build railroad?

• They wanted the west to be completely settled and this allowed for this to happen rapidly

What helped settle the west?

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Homestead Act giving away free land

The frontier closed in 1890 because-

• The land give away slowed down and less people were moving west

• Immigration was also starting to slow due to new laws

Reservation-

• The places that Native Americans were forced to live when they were kicked off their homeland

Sod Houses were built on the Great Plains because-

• Other materials were not found that were needed to build their homes so they used this mud and grass mixture

• No trees meant they needed a different material to build with

Homesteaders-

• The settlers in the frontier• They kept lived out west on the land

they got from the goverment

Homestead Act

• This law gave settlers 160 acres of land out west if you farmed it for at least 5 years

Other things to remember:

• Barbed wire fences were invented to help out West on the Great Plains with the Cattle

• Native Americans were killed off by disease

• A strike is when workers stop working to try and get their demands met

• Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire led to safer working conditions for workers

Part 2 Advice

• Look carefully at the pictures, chart, graph, cartoon, etc…

• Answer ALL parts of a question• Answer in Complete Sentences for all

questions!!• You will not get full credit unless it is a

complete sentence • It is always better to give me MORE on part 2

then less…I have more to look at and find points for you!