U.S. History Final Flashcards
(39 cards)
Working conditions
Unions
US immigration process
1/3 of the us population was immigrants
Ellis island (Europeans poor, trying to escape something)
Angel island Chinese Korean and Japanese immagrints (Chinese exclusion act)
Ellis island and angel island (who?where?process?)
They were to help
People immigrate
Chinese exclusion act
People thought there was too many Chinese immigrants coming to the us
Muckrakers in the progressive era(goal?)
Journalist that expose the environments of factories (meat canning factories)
What was the progressive era ?
Imperialism (definition and countries imperialised)
Money, religion, power, and military
Power projection
Motives for imperialism
Hawaiian annexation
Sugar cane and military base
White mans burden
The ideology that the white man should bring civilization to the uncivilized places like the Philippines
USS Maine
Battle ship and got sunk by maybe Spain
Blew up in Havana harbor
Clearly Spain did this but know one had any evidence but it was blamed on them
Yellow journalism
The great migration (who? And why?
South to North African Americans for economic reasons (housing and jobs)
Jim Crow laws (purpose? Where were most common?)
Juan Crow laws (purpose? Where were they common?)
Plessy vs. Ferguson and “serparare but equal” doctrine
A court case in the 1800s Homer plessy goes on a white only train car to protest. He gets arrested and goes to Supreme Court and they decided that they did not discriminate on him because there was a separate train car for his skin color
Segregation
Methods of oppression
Zimmerman telegram
Prohibition
First red scare (why?)
Scared of the communists and they thought they were going to take over the us and make us commies
Palmer raids
He established the idea of raiding people’s houses and workplaces looking for those who are commies and people targeted were immigrants
Communism