Test Review I
202 – American History
Review
• Immigration
• Antiforeignism / Nativism
– American Protective
Association (APA)
– Organized Labor
• The “Social Gospel” “Christian Socialists’’
– Dwight Lyman Moody
• Moody Bible Institute
– Jane Addams
• Founder of Hull House
• Religious Groups
– New Denominations
– Salvation Army
– Church of Christ, Scientist
(Christian Science)
• Mary Baker Eddy
• Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures
• Charles Darwin &
Darwinism
– On the Origin of Species
– Church Reaction
• Fundamentalists
• Modernists
Review
• Booker T. Washington
– Tuskegee Institute
– Labeled an
“Accommodationist”
– Economic Independence
• Washington Carver
– Agricultural Chemist
• W. E. B. Du Bois
– Ph.D. from Harvard
– National Association for
the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)
• Newspapers
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Yellow Journalism
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
Associated Press
• Magazines & Journals
– Nation
• Edwin L. Godkin
Review
• Books & Literature
– General Lewis Wallace
• Ben Hur: A Tale of the
Christ
– Kate Chopin
• The Awakening
– Samuel Clemens - Mark
Twain
• The Gilded Age (with
Charles Dudley Warner)
• The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
• Women’s Rights
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Women and Economics
– Wyoming - Women’s
suffrage – 1869
– General Federation of
Women’s Clubs
– Ida B. Wells - Clubs
• Temperance Movement
– Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union
• Frances E. Willard
– Carrie Nation
• “hatchetations”
Review
• Art
• Sports
– James Whistler
• Arrangement in Grey and
Black No.1 - “Whistler's
Mother”
• Music
– “Ragged Music”
– Phonograph
• Entertainment
– The Circus
• Phineas T. Barnum & James
Bailey
– Wild West Shows
– Baseball
– Horse Racing - Kentucky
Derby
– Football - Walter C. Camp
– Basketball - James
Naismith
– Pugilism – Boxing
– Croquet & Bicycles
Review
• The National Grange of
the Patrons of Husbandry
– “The Grange”
– Oliver H. Kelley
• Presidential Election of
1880
– James A. Garfield Republican Party
• Assassination
• Chester Arthur
– Pendleton Act 1883
– Civil Service Commission
• Presidential Election of
1884
• Grover Cleveland –
Democrat
– Laissez faire
– Railway Regulation
• Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific
Railway Company v. Illinois
– The Wabash Case
• Interstate Commerce Act of
1887
• Interstate Commerce
Commission (ICC)
– Tariff Issue
Review
• Presidential Election of
1888
– Benjamin Harrison –
Republican
• Age of Imperialism
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“Yellow Press”
Missionaries
Adventurers
European Imperialism:
• Scramble for Africa
• Division of China
– New Steel Navy
• Captain Alfred Thayer
Mahan
• Native Americans
– Helen Hunt Jackson
• A Century of Dishonor
– Assimilation or
Containment
– Massacre at Wounded
Knee
• Sun Dance / Ghost Dance
– Dawes Severalty Act of
1887
Review
• Closing of the Frontier
– Frederick Jackson Turner
• “The Significance of the
Frontier in American
History”
• Segregation & The
South
– Jim Crow Laws
– Plessy V. Ferguson
• Segregation
• “Separate but Equal”
• Legislating the Trusts
– Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890
• John Sherman
• “Billion-Dollar
Congress”
– Tariff of 1890
• “McKinley Tariff”
• William McKinley
Farmer’s Alliance & Populists
• The Farmer’s Alliance
• The People's Party
– “Populists”
– Demands
• Homestead Steel Strike
– Pittsburgh
– Pinkerton Detectives
• Presidential Election of
1892
– Cleveland - Democrat
– Influence of Race in the
South
• Literacy Tests
• Poll Taxes
• “Grandfather Clause”
Cleveland’s Second Term
• Cleveland Returns
– Only president ever
reelected after defeat
• Hawaii
– American influence
– Queen Liliuokalani
– Blocked Annexation
• Depression of 1893
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Overbuilding
Speculation
Labor Disorders
Agricultural depression
Free Silver Agitation
• Congressional Session
1893
– William Jennings Bryan
– Repeal of the Sherman
Silver Purchase Act
Cleveland’s Second Term
• Pullman Strike
– Eugene V. Debs
– American Railway Union
– Pullman Palace Car
Company
• Wilson-Gorman Tariff in
1894
• J.P. Morgan - Gold Loan
• The “Forgettable
Presidents”
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Grant
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
Harrison
Cleveland
Fourth Party System
• Boundary Dispute
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Britain
Venezuela
US Involvement
Great Reproachment
• Election of 1896
– Republicans - William
McKinley
– Democrats - William
Jennings Bryan
• “Cross of Gold” Speech
– Effects of Election “Fourth party system”
– New Era of American
Politics
– Influence of
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big business
big cities
middle-class
financial conservatism
– End of influence of
agrarian votes
– Republican Dominance
Review
• Revolution in Cuba
– Valeriano “Butcher”
Weyler
– Reconcentration camps
– “Yellow Journalism”
• The Battleship Maine
– Explosion & Investigations
• The Spanish American
War
– Teller Amendment
– Commodore George
Dewey
– Annexation of Hawaii
– Battle of San Juan Hill
• 24th and 25th Colored
Infantry
• Rough Riders
– Leonard Wood
– Theodore Roosevelt
– Treaty of Paris (1898)
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Cuba
Guam
Puerto Rico
Philippines
– $20 Million to Spain
Review
• US After Spanish
American War
– American Imperialism
– Anti-Imperialist League
– U.S. World Power &
Eastern Power
– War Department & Navy
– North-South Healing
• Philippine–American War
– Emilio Aguinaldo
– Guerilla Warfare
– Philippine Commission
• William H. Taft
• Cuba
– Cuban Constitution 1901
– Platt Amendment
• China
– Spheres of Influence
– John Hay
• Open Door Policy
– Boxer Rebellion
• Attack on Embassies
• Retaliation
• Assassination of McKinley
– Theodore Roosevelt
becomes president
Review
• Roosevelt Presidency
– “Square Deal”
– Three “C’s”
• Control of the corporations
• Consumer protection
• Conservation of natural
resources
– “Trustbuster”
• Northern Securities
Company
– Conservation
• Federal Reserves
• Panama Canal
– Philippe Bunau-Varilla
– Panama Revolution
• Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
• “Preventive Intervention”
– The Roosevelt Corollary to
the Monroe Doctrine
– “Big Stick Diplomacy”
Roosevelt to Taft
• Russo-Japanese War
– Manchuria & Korea
– Port Arthur
– Treaty of Portsmouth
• Roosevelt
• Japan/US Issues
– San Francisco School Board
– The “Gentlemen’s Agreement”
– The Great White Fleet
• Meat Packing Industry
– Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
– Meat Inspection Act of 1906
– Pure Food and Drug Act of
1906
• Panic of 1907 – “Roosevelt
Panic”
• Election of 1908
– William Howard Taft –
Republican
– William Jennings Bryan –
Democrat
– Eugene V. Debs – Socialist
• Presidency of William Howard
Taft
– “Dollar Diplomacy”
– Republican Split
– Antitrust Suits
• Standard Oil - Successful
• US Steel - Unsuccessful
Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
• Election of 1912
– Republican - Taft
– Progressive Party - “Bull Moose
Party”
• Roosevelt
– “New Nationalism”
– Consolidation of Trusts &
Unions
– Powerful regulatory agencies
– Women’s Suffrage
– Social Welfare
– Democratic Party
• Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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“New Freedom”
Small Enterprise
Entrepreneurship
Unregulated & Unmonopolized
Markets
– Antitrust Laws
• Presidency of Woodrow
Wilson
– Attack the “Triple Wall of
Privilege”
• Tariff
• Banks
• Trusts
– Underwood Tariff Bill
• Revenue Act of 1913
– Sixteenth Amendment
• Income Tax
– Federal Reserve Act
• Federal Reserve Board
• Federal Reserve Notes
– Federal Trade Commission Act
– Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Mexican Revolution & German
Unification
• The Mexican Revolution
– Beginning
• Porfirio Diaz
• Francisco Madero
• General Victoriano Huerta
– US Involvement
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Mexican Immigration to US
Arms to Rebels
Sailors at Tampico
Invasion of Vera Cruz
– ABC Powers Mediate
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Carranza Takes Power
Pancho Villia’s Raids in US
Emiliano Zapata
John J. Pershing
• Prussia
– Prime Minister Otto Von
Bismarck
• The Danish War (1864)
• The Austro-Prussian War /
The Seven Weeks War
(1866)
• The Franco-Prussian War
– Treaty of Frankfurt (1871)
• The German Empire
Alliance System
• Bismarck’s Alliance
System
– Dual Alliance
• Germany
• Austria
– Three Emperor’s League
• Germany
• Austria
• Russia
– Triple Alliance
• Germany
• Austria
• Italy
– France - Isolated
• William (Wilhelm) II
• Alliance System Collapses
– End Three Emperor’s
League
• Franco-Russian Alliance
• Britain
– “Splendid Isolation”
• Entente Cordiale – Britain
and France
• Triple Entente – Britain,
France, and Russia
Beginning of World War I
• Road to War
– Archduke Francis (Franz)
Ferdinand
– Sarajevo, BosniaHerzegovina
– Assassination
– The Black Hand
• “Union or Death”
• Serbian Involvement?
• War declarations
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Serbian Ultimatum
Austria to Serbia
Russia to Austria
Germany to Russia
France to Germany
German Troops in
Luxemburg & Belgium
• British involvement
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