AP US History Ch 29 The American Pageant Test Study Guide Consider the 5 Ws when thinking about history: Who‚ What‚ When‚ Where‚ & Why/How is it important? Ch 29 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt‚ 1901-1912 The “real heart” of the progressive movement was effort by reformers to use gov’t as an agency of humanitarian welfare The political roots of progressive movement lay in – Greenback Labor Party & Populists Late 19th century social critics & their criticisms: Thorstein Veblen
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Oklahoma Land Rush Oklahoma Indian Territory 5 civilized tribes –Cherokees‚ Chickasaw‚ Choctaws‚ Creek‚ Seminole Land Rush on “No Man’s Land” – April 22‚ 1889 – white settlers given opportunity to settle far western portion of OK Curtis Act 1889 – formally ended Indian communal land ownership thereby legally dissolving Indian Territory Oklahoma – “land of the Red Man” At the close of the Civil War 360‚000 Indians still lived in Trans-Miss. West. Most in Great Plains. Plain Indians used guns
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1. Mercantilism a. Money = Power b. As a Moral Revolution b.i. Trade b.i.1. Good producing colonies are essential to the economic growth of an empire b.ii. A fixed supply of wealth exists in the world b.iii. To augment one’s wealth‚ one must take the wealth of one’s rival b.iv. wars of trade now replace wars of religion c. Principles c.i. The state must control trade in order to: c.i.1. Enhance national strength c.i.2. Provide self-sufficiency c.i.3. Pay a standing military c.ii. Favorable
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The Progressive Era was a thirty year period in which the United States was completely reformed. Actions were taken to improve working conditions for laborers‚ create a sexually unbiased work system and regulate the economy. President Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson both helped create a more direct democracy in which the people would have a voice. During those thirty years‚ amendments 16 to 19 were ratified to regulate and reform the country. Muckrakers were writers who worked for the printing
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Populists: Grew from the Farmer’s Alliance Free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at 16:1 ratio Increased circulating medium (no less that $50 per capita) Graduated income tax It was big in the 1890s (major electoral victories) Several members of the House of Representatives and the election of 1 U.S. senator Against monopolies More Democratic government (more control to people) Wanted more direct government action to help the working class Government ownership of railroads‚ telegraph
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Mikaela Duguil Period: 6 Chapter 1 Cornell notes 1. What was not an important goal of the early English explorers and colonists? It was not an important goal to build a new nation. 2. Discuss the factors that transformed the colonist and caused them to envision and creating an independent nation: common bonds‚ language‚ farmers‚ untouched by tyranny of royal authority‚ official religion and social hierarchy‚ individual freedom‚ and willingness to subjugate to others. 3. What factors divided the colonists
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Key Terms: • Congregationalism- A system of church governance in which every local church congregation is independent • Patriarchy- A social system in which the male is the primary authority figure central to social organization and the central roles of political leadership‚ moral authority‚ and control of property‚ and where fathers hold authority over women and children. It implies the institutions of male rule and privilege‚ and entails female subordination • “Covenant”- A formal alliance
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1. General characteristics and conditions of the Native Americans: Where they came from and their cultures. a. Where: 35‚000 (33‚000?) B.C.: First ‘immigrant’ ancestors of the Native Americans traveled down the Bering land bridge from Eurasia to North America during the Ice Age i. Trekked across Bering isthmus and peopled the Americas for 250 centuries‚ eventually reaching the southern tip of South America ii. Isolated by the melting of glaciers at the end of the Ice Age
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All questions courtesy of Houghton Mifflin’s The American Pageant Guidebook; A Manual For Students‚ Eleventh Edition‚ 1998 Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism‚ 1812-1824 True-False Where the statement is true‚ mark T. Where it is false‚ mark F‚ and correct it in the space immediately below. 1. Napoleon’s decision to repeal his blockage decrees in response to Macon’s Bill No. 2 demonstrated how he had been successfully manipulated by President Madison
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Marcus Pando Period 4 Chapter 22 Key Terms Describe and state the historical significance of the following: 7. Freedmen’s Bureau Initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. At the end of the war‚ the Bureau’s main role was providing emergency food‚ housing‚ and medical aid to refugees‚ though it also helped reunite families. Later‚ it focused its work on helping the freedmen adjust to their conditions of freedom. Its
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