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Dorthea Dix

❑ Reformer

❑ She worked to reform prisons and mental institutions

Andrew Jackson

❑ Created the spoils system

❑ General at the Battle of New Orleans

❑ Pushed for the Indian Removal Act

Horace Mann

❑ Wanted to reform education

❑ He pushed for public, non-religious education

Writers of America

❑ James Fennimore Cooper – Last of the Mohicans

❑ Edgar Allen Poe – the Raven

❑ Herman Melville – Moby Dick

❑ Henry David Thoreau – Walden

Dred Scott

❑ Slave who argued for his freedom

❑ Supreme Court ruled he was property, and could even go to court

❑ Court ruled he could be taken anywhere and still be a slave

❑ One of the causes of the Civil War

John Brown

❑ White abolitionists (wanted to end slavery)

❑ Raided Harper’s Ferry, a federal arsenal

❑ Brown hoped slaves would revolt and kill their masters

❑ He was captured and hanged, in the North many called him a hero, in the South he was condemned

Winston County

❑ County in Alabama that refused to secede during the Civil War

54th Massachusetts Regiment

❑ All African American Civil War Regiment

❑ Fought valiantly and heroically in the Civil War

Emancipation Proclamation

❑ Issued by Abraham Lincoln

❑ Declared all slaves in the rebellious South free

❑ There were still some slave states in the North, all slavery in the U.S. was not ended until the 13th Amendment

Appomattox

❑ The South (Confederacy) surrendered here

❑ Robert E. Lee was the general for the South (Confederacy)

❑ Ulysses Grant was the general for the North (Union)

John Wilkes Booth

❑ Southern actor

❑ Assassinated Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theater

Sherman

❑ Union (Northern) general who burned a 60 mile path of destruction through Georgia

Fort Sumter

❑ First shots fired of the Civil War

❑ Confederate (Southern) troops attacked Union (Northern) troops in the fort

Reconstruction

❑ Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War

❑ Scalawags – white southerners who supported Reconstruction

❑ Carpetbaggers – northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction

Jim Crowe

❑ Series of laws designed to oppress African-Americans

Sharecropping

❑ Poor man’s method of farming

❑ Farmer worked someone else’s land

❑ Received a share of the crops each year

Muckrakers

❑ Journalists who exposed dirt in American Society

❑ Examples – Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

❑ Written by Upton Sinclair

❑ Described the meat packing industry

Booker T. Washington

❑ Head of the Tuskegee Institute

❑ Focused on making African-Americans economically equal to whites, not socially equal

Yellow Journalism

❑ Newspapers that exaggerated or lied to sell copies

❑ Examples would be any newspaper about what happened in Cuba

Imperialism

❑ Exploiting (taking advantage of) the resources and people of another land

❑ Examples – U.S. in the Philippines, Cuba, and Hawaii

❑ Cartoons of Uncle Sam taking other countries

Rough Riders

❑ Famous group led by Theodore Roosevelt

❑ Charged up San Juan Hill in the Spanish American War

Monopolies

❑ Business has one area of the market cornered

❑ Examples: Rockefeller – Standard Oil, Carnegie – U.S. Steel

Causes of World War I

❑ Imperialism, Nationalism, Militarism, and the Alliance System

❑ Fighting started in WWI after Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated

❑ Cause for U.S. entering war: sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman Note – proposed alliance between Germany and Mexico against the U.S.

No Man’s Land

❑ Western front of WWI

❑ The zone between trenches, where nothing survived

U-boat

❑ German submarine in World War I

Lusitania/Zimmerman Note

❑ Causes for the U.S. entering WWI

Weapons of WWI

❑ Tanks

❑ Poison gas

❑ Machine guns

❑ Planes

League of Nations

❑ Attempt to keep the peace after WWI

❑ It was very very weak

Fourteen Points

❑ Woodrow Wilson’s plan for peace after WWI

❑ The 14th point called for the creation of the League of Nations

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