Booker T. Washington

1. What was the name of the school that Booker T. Washington started?

 *  Tuskegee Institute

2. Whom did Booker T. Washington recruit to head the agriculture department at Tuskegee Institute?

*   George Washington Carver

3. Booker T. Washington's autobiography is entitled:

*   Up From Slavery.

4. What president did Booker T. Washington dine with?

*   Teddy Roosevelt



5. With whom did Booker T. Washington often come into conflict?

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*   W.E.B. Du Bois

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African-Americans after Reconstruction

1. How is racism today different than racism practiced immediately after Reconstruction?

Because back than southern states created laws,like the segregation law and jim crow law to separate the blacks from whites, and literacy test would give them difficult questions that blacks could answer because otherwise they would be given a test in a different language so that blacks could have rights, but now blacks have right that they didn't have in the past.

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Mid-Term Exam Reflection

1. 20/25

2. The reason why I enter the wrong answer was because the questions were kind of confusing.

3. What I learn about my self is that studying for the test will make me a good score. And next time when I take an exam I will read the question carefully. That way I will get a better score in the exam.

U.S. History Mid-Terms

1. What was the reason(s) for the Three-Fifths Compromise?(Pg. 68)

• The reason why the Three-Fifths Compromise was created was to count the votes of slaves in the northern states and southern states and to be represent as part of the U.S. population.

2. What were the three major factors that contributed to the immense technological boom that took place in the United States after the Civil War? Explain how any ONE of these factors helped to bring about this technological boom.(goo.gl/X99gY)

• The three major factors are the wealth of natural resources, government support for businesses, and a growing urban population. The wealth of natural resources for example Edwin L. Drake used the steam engine to find oil that later could be used as gas for automobiles.

3. Explain and give an example of an immigration "push factor" and an ethnic group that experienced it. Additionally, explain and give an example of a immigration "push factor" that made the U.S. attractive to immigrants.(Pg. 254)

4. Why, at the turn of the century, were white southerners able to get away with discrimination against African-Americans, despite all the laws and amendments that were passed during Reconstruction? Give at least three reasons.(goo.gl/ZtvOM)

5. Choose one of the following reform movements: prohibition (307), suffrage (315), or government (312). Explain the goals of the movement; identify the people and groups involved in it; identify some of its successes.(Pg. 307-315)

China and WWI

1. Which country's interest did the Open Door Policy in China favor?

• It favor the United States.

2. What were the reasons behind the Boxer Rebellion?

• They were chinese that would rebel against the europeans who would take over china.

3. List three causes of World War I?

• Nationalism, Imperialism, and Militarism.

4. How did the U.S. deal with German U-boats?

• American Ships were guarded by military vessels.

5. What was the Selective Service Act used for?

• To register random men to join the army.

6. What new weapons did WWI introduce?

• Tanks, and Airplanes.

7. How did the Espionage and Sedition Act affect Freedom of Speech and Labor Unions?

• People didn't have the right to say something bad about their government or about the war effort and people can't protest against their government.

8. Why was there opposition to President Wilson's League of Nations?

• The U.S. would not want to join another war.

American Imperialism after Spanish-American War

1. How did the U.S. change Cuba’s Constitution?
The U.S. change Cuba's Constitution by adding Platt Amendment.

2. What did the Roosevelt Corollary build on?
The Monroe Doctrine.


3. Pancho Villa was pursued by whom?
John J. Pershing and about 15,000 soldiers.



4. How did the U.S. get the land for the Panama Canal?
Panama gained its independence from Colombia and so the U.S. bought the Canal.



5. What is meant by “speak softly and carry a big stick mean?
When U.S. negotiations it would be backed up by the military force.

Spanish-American War

1. Why did Jose Marti destroy U.S. property?
 Marti wanted to provok the U.S. to help the rebel to defeat spain so they would destroy U.S. property.

2. Who did the de LÔme letter criticize? What were the consequences? How did this private letter become public in the first place?


3. Who was the “winner” of the Spanish-American War, and what were the winning?


4. How was the Spanish-American War connected with American Imperialism?


5. How was the war started? Was it proper?

Education has Changed. A Little or A Lot?

Students would get hit
If students didn't sit
Students would get detention
If not paying attention
Students don't want to go to school
Because their teachers are cruel

Life at the Beginning of the 1900's

1. What was the most important reason for expanding education?




2. Did every child have an equal opportunity to education? Explain.

Unit Exam Study Guide

Immigrants in the 1870's arrived via what mode of transportation
*Steamship

What technology most allowed factories to locate away from rivers?
*Electricity

The #1 strategy that made Andrew Carnegie wealthy was to be cheaper than his competition. T or F?
*False

The main immigration processing station in San Francisco
*Angel Island

Tammany Hall was a famous: immigration processing station, NYC political machine, Chicago business
*NYC political machine

What law was enacted to decrease Chinese immigration to U.S.?
*Chinese Exclusion Act

These people were used to break labor strikes by working for less money.
*Scabs

What would best reduce monopolies and trusts? consolidation, competition, or corruption.
*Competition

The main purpose of Americanization movement was to
*Assimilate immigrants into the dominate culture

New immigrants move here because it was cheap and lots of jobs.
*Cities

The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to do what?
*Outlaw trusts and monopolies that interfered with competition

Settlement houses helped new immigrants assimilate. Who made these houses: reformers, politicians, workers?
*Social reformers

This industrialist made vertical and horizontal intergration famous
*Andrew Carnegie

The smaller men in the room are:
*United States Senators

Many rich people believed they worked hard, were smarter, and that God selected them is called?
*Social Darwinism

This new metal allowed the U.S. to make skyscapers and new forms of constructions
*Steel

An old apartment usually occupied by poor people was called a
*Tenement

Upton Sinclair wrote his book on what factory?
*Meatpacking industry

The Triangel Shirtwaist Factory was infamous for what?
*A shameful fire that killed 146 women

The company Credit Mobillier was famous for what?
*Steal/take money from railroads for shareholders

Upton Sinclair's book the Jungle was responsible

Partronage is: a birbe

The illegal use of political power for personal gain is: navitism

Industrial

The gentlemen's Agreement

Coming to the United States 1870's

1. How much time was the trip from Europe and Asia, and how would you have liked it?

The trip across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe took approximately one week, and while crossing the Pacific Ocean from Asia took nearly three weeks. And I wouldn't like it because everyone in the ship has to be in a room and aren't allowed to exercise or to catch a breath of fresh air.

2. What are the names of the main immigration processing stations in San Francisco & New York?

The main immigration processing stations in San Francisco & New York are San Francisco's Angel Island where the chinese immigrants had to go in order to enter the United States, but the chinese people had to wait an a filthy building to see if they were accepted or not and New York's Ellis Island where the European immigrants had to go to, but 20 percent of the immigrants had to stay for a day or more, but 2 percent of the immigrants were denied and sent back home.

3. How did Denis Kearny try to stop Asian people from entering California in 1882? Why did he do this, and how would you feel if you were chinese?



4. In 1907-08 the Gentlemen's Agreement did two things. What were they?

The Meat Inspection Act

Men
Expected to check the meat
At the meat factories
The meat might be unsafe for people

In the meat factories the conditions are bad
Necessary to inspect the factories
So people can eat the meat without getting sick
People don't want rat poop in thier meat
Eating meat that can make you sick is bad
Can cause trouble to president reputation
To solve this problem the president needs to make a new law
In the book The Jungle it describes the meat conditions
Outrage people demand the meat to be safe to eat
Needing a new law is the best option for the people

And the Meat Inspection Act was created 
Can now make the meat more safer to eat now
The people feel glad for having this new law

            The jungle affected the way Americans thought about the ways meat was produced because the people don't want their meat to be unhealthy to eat. One thing is that when unhealthy meat contains a disease that could make the people sick. Another thing is that people don't want to buy meat that has rat poop on it. The last thing is that people don't want to get their meat that might been dropped on the floor where workers spit in.