13^th amendment

Freed the slaves

14^th Amendment

Made the slaves citizens

15^th Amendment

Granted African American males the right to vote

His election resulted in Southern states seceding from the union

Fought to preserve the union

Emancipation Proclamation (declared the slaves as free)

White southern landowners

Former slaves

maintains a cheap labor supply

Radical Republicans (punish Rebels, help Blacks) tough on the South

Lincoln Plan – treat states like they never left Union (lenient)

Upheld racial segregation

Racial segregation did not violate the equal protection provision of the 14th amendment.

Overturned by Brown v. Board of Education

Jim Crow Laws

Black Codes

Plessy v. Ferguson

Free farmland in the West- encouraged immigrants to move West

provided free land to settlers

settlement of western territories

To break down native American tribes

Attempt to assimilate Native Americans into white culture

Spanish-American War

exaggerated events to build supportfor war

Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine

Man made products to machine made products

Urbanization

Laissez-Faire

French for “let alone” “let be”

Opposes government involvement in business

Government involvement is harmful to economic growth

Anti-Trust Acts

Designed to prevent the abuses of large businesses (monopolies)

increase the federal government’s power to regulate business practices

Robber barons

Teddy Roosevelt

Big Stick Policy- using military to influence foreign affairs

Intervention in Latin America

Protect natural resources

Imperialism

Natural Resources

Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam

Naval ports/bases

Open Door Policy

Federal Reserve System

Helps maintain the flow of money

Regulate banking system

Government should regulate big business

correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society

Muckrakers

make Americans aware of problems in society

The Jungle- Upton Sinclair (meat packing industry)

How the Other Half Lives- Jacob Riis

(living conditions)

Submarine warfare

Zimmermann Note

M.A.I.N

Fourteen Points (After WWI)

Opposed Treaty of Versailles

Supported League of Nations (Senate refused to join)

set goals for achieving peace after World War I

1 goal was to establish a league of nations

involvement in future foreign wars

Opposed by senate

contained provisions that might lead the United States into foreign conflicts

Harshly punished Germany

Lead to WWII

“Clear and Present Danger”

Limits free speech in wartime

19^th amendment grants women the right to vote

                         Seneca Falls Convention 1848                           

Declaration of Sentiments

Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Harlem Renaissance

highlighted the cultural achievements of African Americans

Jazz- Duke Elington

Langston Hughes

poor farming methods and sustained drought

Evolution v. Fundamentalism

Science v. Religion

Roaring 20s

Harlem Renaissance (Black pride in accomplishments in the arts)

buying stocks on margin

Prohibition

Temperance Movement- 

Ban on production and consumption of alcohol

Unpopular laws are difficult to enforce

Ended when the 21st amendment was ratified