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Second Semester Final
Drew School Junior Final
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History
11th Grade
05/25/2009

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Term
13th 14th 15th Amendments
Definition

When: Reconstruction Period

15th-1870

14th-1868

13th-1865

13th: Secured the end of Slavery (Delaware Kentucky Missouri still had slavery)

1. Emancipation Proclamation

a. Freedom of Slaves

14th: Equal Voting Rights

15th: Citizenship to all Americans

Term
Lend-Lease Act
Definition

FDR Supply Troops

(US help England with Military Materials) 

Term
Frederick Jackson Turner
Definition

 

Individualistic Democracy

Created the idea of the "American Hero".

-Tough

-Learned skills from Native Americans

-Alone (Parents dead)

-in tune with nature

Famous for his views of the Frontier. 

Views were false because Native Americans were dead.

 

Term
Transcontinental Railroad
Definition

Completed in 1869

Import and Export luxuries in and out of the states. 

Term
Great Migration
Definition
Blacks migrated from the South to the North
Term
Platt Amendment
Definition

Added to the Cuban Constitution

Took rights away from Cuban citizens.

Granted more rights to the US government.

 

Term
Social Darwinism
Definition

When the different social classes were created, it showed very clearly who were in which class (neighborhoods).

"If the rich are rich, they deserve to be rich, hence the neighborhoods"

Term
Urbanization
Definition
The act of modernizing everything.
Term
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Definition

Created by Woodrow Wilson

In response to Red Scare.

Limited rights to free speech.

Killed all who held information from government.

 

Term
Woodrow Wilson
Definition

President during the Submarine Warfare

Wanted to stay neutral.

Term
Jazz
Definition

Formed after the Great Migration.

Made people go to clubs.

Women started to party (rebellion).

New

Term

Laissez-Faire Capitalism

vs.

The SEC

Definition

SEC: Created by the New Deal. Helped prevent cheating of the stock market.

Laissez-Faire Capitalism: Believed that we should let the market do whatever it is going to do. Do not tamper with its course of action.

Term
Queen Liliuokalani
Definition

Queen of Hawaii when US took HI and annexed it

Did not do anything when the US took over and annexed HI.

Term
The Noble Savage
Definition
The Indian good vs. Bad
Term
Progressive Reformers
Definition

Fought against civilian problems

 

Term
Tenements
Definition

Terrible housing where the immigrants lived during the Progressive Era (1890).

Spread disease.

Stores built under them.

 

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Term
Red Scare
Definition

1917-1920

President: Woodrow Wilson

Accused civilians of being communists.

Term
Scopes Trial
Definition

Trial about whether Evolution should be taught in the school system or not.

(1925)

Term
Submarine Warfare
Definition

WW1(1914)

Using submarines during war was a new idea. Used to take over boat, but now submarine warfare just killed everyone on the boats. 

Term
The New Deal
Definition

Glass-Steagall Act: Created the FDIC and insured that if something were to happen, you would be guaranteed up to $5000 of your savings.

Civilian Conservation Corp: Created many more jobs. 2/3 of the money they made while helping the environment went to their families.

Securities Act: Insured that there was to be no cheating of the stock market, and all the information was known by all at the same time. 

 

Term
Isolationism
Definition

Woodrow Wilson

WW1

The idea that said each country should stay put, and not intervene with other countries. 

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