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2022 US History STAAR Review Prep terms. summary rated A Spoils System - ✔✔the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power: IMPACT : ... Civil Service Exams - Merit System established for Civil service employees John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil - ✔✔Amazingly wealthy PHILANTHROPIST and founder of the Standard OIL Company, which formed a monopoly on the oil market through horizontal and vertical integration and LIMITED COMPETITION among other entrepreneurs American Dream - ✔✔The widespread belief that the United States is a land of OPPORTUNITIES and that individual initiative and hard work (JOBS)= economic success. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - ✔✔placed a ban on all new immigrants from China B/C loss of Jobs: IMPACT - Increased Nativism & Anti- Immigrant Attitudes Transcontinental Railroad - ✔✔Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US helped complete the SETTLEMENT of the WEST Dawes Act of 1887 - ✔✔Sought to "Americanize" Native Americans. and ASSIMILATE them into US culture - Put Indian children into schools Bessemer Steel Process - ✔✔A new way to create steel that led to mass production of steel IMPACT: Building of Skyscrapers Child Labor Act - ✔✔prohibited the shipment in interstate commerce of products manufactured by children under 14 years old due to the Progressive Movement Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 - ✔✔1906 - Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs Still in existence as the FDA.- due to Progressive Movement, Muckrakers, Upton Sinclair Alexis de Tocqueville - ✔✔*Assessed the American attempt to have both liberty and equality and INDIVIDUALISM 15th, 19th, 26th Amendments - ✔✔black males gain the right to vote women gain the right to vote. - 18 year olds gain the right to vote. SUFFRAGE Amendment Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine - ✔✔Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force - US INTERVENES in Western Hemisphere Annexation of Hawaii (1898) - ✔✔Strategic Military reasons & valuable resources - gained after the Spanish American War Lusitania (1915) - ✔✔passenger ship sunk by Germany to get US involved in WW1 - used as propaganda to join the war... made Germany the enemy Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) - ✔✔did not want to join the league of nations to protect American Sovereignty - wanted to avoid Foreign conflict Spanish-American War (1898) - ✔✔Conflict between the U.S. and Spain that began the rise of the U.S. as a world power. The U.S. gained possession of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, resulted in GROWTH in Trade and Resources. Espionage and Sedition Acts - ✔✔laws that enacted harsh punishments against anyone who opposed participation in the war? RESULTED in Limiting of Constitutional Rights during War 19th Amendment (1920) - ✔✔Gave women the right to vote - women now began participating in political processes, such as the temperance movement Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) - ✔✔Organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association to increase racial pride and promote black nationalism, pride and economic Independence by supporting Black owned businesses and culture Henry Ford and the Assembly Line - ✔✔Ford revolutionized the efficiency of manufacturing with the assembly faster, cheaper and with less labor. in the 1920's Harlem Renaissance - ✔✔A period in the 1920s of the celebration of African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished, IMPACT: literacy rates increased, Great Migration, 1st Civil Rights movement Causes of the Great Depression - ✔✔credit buying, overproduction, less consumer spending, falling stocks, increase in tariffs, Bank Failures, Resulted in Massive unemployment, homelessness Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - ✔✔This corporation insured individual bank deposits Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) - ✔✔New Deal program that hired/aided unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects - combated unemployment during the Great Depression Court Packing Plan - ✔✔FDR's failed plan to pack the court with hand picked judges because it would have weakened the principal of separation of powers Pearl Harbor, 1941 - ✔✔United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, brought US into WWII. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - ✔✔This was the final event of World War II. The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. Japan surrendered unconditionally soon after. War Bonds - ✔✔Certificates sold by the United States government to Americans pay for the costs of World War II Homefront during WWII - ✔✔Increase in Women Workforce, War Industry, Rationing of Supplies and Taxes Korean War (1950-1953) - ✔✔began as civil war b/w North and South Korea (quickly became international when, under Truman,, the United Nations & US joined to support South Korea to STOP the SPREAD of COMMUNISM G.I. Bill, 1944 - ✔✔Provided for college or educational training and home loans for WWII veterans as well as one year of unemployment comp [Show More]

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