HIST201 STUDY GUIDE FOR EXAM 1 I Identifications 40 In this section of the exam you will be required to identify and explain the significance of various persons events or terms relevant to the course The examination will offer an option of 6 terms you will need to answer 4 A list of possible ID terms can be found below Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land Sharecropping became widespread as a response to economic upheaval caused by the emancipation of slaves and disenfranchisement of poor whites in the agricultural South during Reconstruction Black Codes were laws in the United States after the Civil War with the effect of limiting the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks The Black Codes were in reaction to the abolition of slavery and the South s defeat in the Civil War They are significant because they denied blacks their rights even though they had been freed Scopes Trial a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher John Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee s Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state funded school This is significant because it symbolized the tensions of the 1920s Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the Northeast Midwest and West from 1910 to 1970 due to racial violence after WWI The Great Migration created the first large urban black communities in the North Led to the Harlem Renaissance Mexican repatriation program established by the US government which rounded up Mexican Americans and sent them back to Mexico to repatriate them In reality the program was established to get rid of Mexican Americans in order to open up job opportunities for American men It was significant because it took place without a due process Gospel of Wealth an essay written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that described a responsibility of philanthropy by the upper class and self made rich He stressed the danger of letting large sums of money get into the wrong hands as it is passed down and that the entrepreneur must put his money to good use The Frontier Thesis created by Frederick Jackson Turner Argues that the conquest of the Western frontier is what makes us American it forces us to re create democracy and test ourselves it is a place of liberation Liberty Cabbage another name for sauerkraut It is significant because due to concerns the American public would reject a product with a German name American sauerkraut makers relabeled their product as Liberty cabbage for the duration of the war 14th Amendment established citizenship representation and loyalty It was significant because it gave blacks women and many other minority groups rights as citizens These groups were now considered citizens so the law could protect them 15th Amendment gave suffrage to all males of age regardless of race It was significant because now African American could also make decisions like their White counterparts and be a part of the voting process contributing to the uplifting of oppression during the time the amendment was put into effect Swift Meatpacking Co Meatpacking Company in Chicago It was significant because it incorporated vertical integration or in other words would utilize assembly line or in this case disassembly line production techniques Committee on Public Information was an independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U S public opinion regarding American participation in World War I It was significant because it used every medium available to create enthusiasm for the war effort and enlist public support against foreign attempts to undercut America s war aims Tenements substandard multi family dwellings in the urban core usually old and occupied by the poor They are significant because they represented the poverty stricken lifestyle of first generation Americans and their drive to pursue reaching the American dream Amusement parks were significant because they allowed girls and boys to go out together alone in the dark without any parental supervision This was one of the many rebellious actions during the 1920s Plessy v Ferguson is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal Settlement houses most were large buildings in crowded immigrant neighborhoods of industrial cities where settlement workers provided services for neighbors and sought to remedy poverty Jane Addams established one of the first settlement houses Hull House in Chicago in 1889 White Man s Burden the responsibility of bringing civilization and Christianity to developing countries This perceived responsibility on the part of Europeans drove them to colonize the Third World over three centuries 18th through the 20th Its origin is from the poem The White Man s Burden by Rudyards Kipling often called the poet of the imperialism This poem in short is about justification and the need to teach other people how to live and act like Europeans Alfred Thayer Mahan Writes The Influence of Sea Power Upon History and argues that national prosperity and power depends on access to the worlds sea lanes His ideas are incredibly influential all around the world He is significant because the American gvmt then begins investing in the navy which led to imperial expansion Populist Platform The party platform considers the US Constitution to be an affirmative grant of limited powers by the people to the federal government for the express purpose of protecting the natural rights of individuals and the integrity and sovereignty of the several states The party s proposed Constitutional amendments are focused in three areas fiscal limits on the federal government restoring the balance of political power between the States and the federal government and constraining the judiciary regarding the interpretation of the Constitution Emilio Aguinaldo was a Filipino general politician and independence leader He played an instrumental role during the Philippines revolution against Spain and the subsequent Philippine American War or War of Philippine Independence that resisted American occupation He is significant because he led his people during the Philippine American War Atlanta Compromise an
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