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US II - Midterm Review

· **suffrage,** gain the right to vote · Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 · · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · ** 19 th Amendment- 1920 **
 * Civil Rights || Civil Rights || Turn of 20th Century || Progressive Reform ||
 * ** Women’s Rights: **
 * Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul

_ ** Immigration ** · Issues for immigrants o different immigrant groups were treated differently, why? o Old Immigrants v. New Immigrants—what were the differences, why? o ** Nativists ** § motives? o Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gentlemen’s Agreement (with Japan) o Issues for Latino immigrants— § unfair pay § migrant work § Cesar Chavez, as civil rights leaders for Latinos || ** African-Americans’ Rights ** · ** Plessy v. Ferguson (Supreme Court case) ** · ** Brown v. Board of Education(Supreme Court case) 1954 ** = · __ Civil Rights leaders & events __= · ** Martin Luther King, Jr. ** · strategies to force local, state, and federal governments to guarantee equal rights regardless of race: o **capitalism** - Definition Adam Laissez-Faire Smith’s Laws of **Laissez -Faire Economics** -Govt with little or NO regulations o ** monopolies/trusts ** o **John D. Rockefeller**-Standard Oil o **Andrew Carnegie** - US Steel o differences in social classes - growth of a middle class **"Gospel of Wealth"** o ** Social Darwinism ** o labor unions o ** Industrialization ** o rise of oil, steel, railroads o mass production, increase in factories § poverty in cities § settlement houses to help immigrants - **Jane Addams** § poor sanitation and housing || **Progressives** -Working for change -improving society o **muckrakers** - § **Jacob Riis** -housing § **Ida Tarbell** -trust busting § **Upton Sinclair** - meatpacking conditions & potentially poisonous meat products (not to mention disgusting) § Lincoln Steffens -corrupt city governments Florence Kelley -child labor & women’s working conditions Legislative Reforms - § laws to improve working conditions, consumer safety, child labor, end government corruption, improving voting practices - initiatives, referendum, recall elections, secret ballots
 * · discrimination **
 * · segregation **
 * · Jim Crow Laws **
 * “Separate but Equal” Decision 1896 **
 * · Rosa Parks **
 * . Thurgood Marshall **
 * · Montgomery Bus Boycott **
 * · Emmett Till’s murder **
 * · Little Rock 9 **
 * · March on Washington **
 * __ Methods of civil disobedience: __**
 * o boycotts **
 * o sit-ins **
 * o ‘freedom rides’ **
 * o marches **
 * o registering to vote **
 * o getting arrested on purpose **
 * · successes of the Civil Rights Movement: **
 * o desegregated schools **
 * o March on Washington **
 * o Civil Rights Act of 1964 **
 * o Voting Rights Act of 1965 ** || ** Rise of Big Business **
 * o urbanization **

[|See your Progressive Reform Sheet] || **Spheres of Influence** – China & US wanting Open Door Policy China, Japan, **Spanish –American War** – US acquired – Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico & Guantanamo Bay Naval Base – Cuba, US became protectorate of Cuba, Protectorate, annexation,
 * America Becomes a World Power || World War I ||  ||   ||
 * **US Imperialism** – Hawaii, Alaska?

Panama Canal – Teddy Roosevelt’s Latin American policy – keep all European powers out of Western Hemisphere(Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine) || = M ilitarism, = = N ationalism = = Assassination - Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip- Serbian Nationalist =
 * A ** lliances
 * I ** mperialism

**Allied Powers**- France, Gr. Britain & all her colonies, Russia until 1917 revolution, Italy,

US an Allied Power - after 1917 stopped being “neutral”,

**Central Powers**: Germany, Austria- Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Trenches & U-Boats, Propaganda, Lusitania(Br ship not American)

**US Efforts in War & at Home** – Liberty Bonds, Victory Gardens, Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays – giving up comforts for the war effort, Spanish Flu, **Woodrow Wilson’s - Treaty of Versailles** __Only Germans to pay reparations!__ – German War Guilt – Germany lost colonies & land, **League of Nations**- US did not join the League – didn’t want to have to send troops out for conflicts nor did US want troops here if a conflict arose in US! Congress did not ratify Treaty of Versailles ||  ||   ||