Chapter 17

Question 1

Frontier thesis

Answer 1

Proposed by Fredrick turner

Question 2

Gentlemens agreements

Answer 2

An informal agreement between the US and the empire of Japan where the US would not impose restrictions on Japanese immigration

Question 3

Immigration restriction league

Answer 3

Formed by Warren ward and hail to persuade congress to pass laws to keep out all undesirables immigrants

Question 4

Morrill act

Answer 4

The act firanted lands to the states from the public domain- 30,000 acres for each senetor and rep of congress to support new state colleges. The land granted colleges solid courses in engineering, science and literature

Question 5

NAACP

Answer 5

National association for the Advancement of colored people

Question 6

Niagara movement

Answer 6

Demanded all human rights for blacks and all the thief rights as Americans at once. Demanded the rights to vote and opposed all laws and customs that treated blacks different

Question 7

Caisson disease

Answer 7

Decompression sickness when a fire in Brooklyn caisson threatened the project. Roe king stayed below for seven hours in a compressed air chamber