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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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