Booker T Washington

1. What was the name of the school that Booker T. Washington started? *

1. Tuskegee Institute
2. Hampton Normal School
3. Howard University
4. None of the above.

2. Whom did Booker T. Washington recruit to head the agriculture department at Tuskegee Institute? *

• Frederick Douglass
• George Washington Carver
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• None of the above.

3. Booker T. Washington's autobiography is entitled: *

• My Life.
• The Autobiography of Booker T. Washington.
• Up From Slavery.
• None of the above.

4. What president did Booker T. Washington dine with? *

• Woodrow Wilson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Teddy Roosevelt

5. With whom did Booker T. Washington often come into conflict? *

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• George Washington Carver
• Frederick Douglass
• None of the above.

African-Americas after Reconstruction

• New voting restrictions
• Denied legal equality to African Americans
• limited votes for people who could read, and required registration of a literacy test
• Blacks were asked more difficult questions than whites
• poll tax was another requirement
• they also added the grandfather clause

 Essential Questions:
a. How is racism today different than racism practiced immediately after reconstruction?
  - It is different because before they would tell the people to their face whatever they had in mind and nowadays most people keep everything a secret and dont really say what is on their mind if that person is a racist.
b. an example of today is also the voting rights people had to fight for to get to where we are today.

 
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Mid-Term Exam Reflection

I learned that I have to slow down on confusing questions, that way I can get a better understanding of what is being asked. Also, I honestly should have studied a little more to get more of them correct because most of the ones I had gotten wrong are the ones we studied at the end of the first semester. Now I know what I have to work on the most.  score:20/25

China and WW1

1. Which country's interest did the Open Door Policy in China favor?
    The United States

 2. What were the reasons behind the Boxer Rebellion?
    Imperialsit countries came to china and settled down in china, the boxers got upset so they began to push back and rebel. They did not want to see foreigners and split there own land.

 3. List three causes of World War I?
    Nationalism, imperialism, militarism

 4. How did the U.S. deal with German U-boats?
     They had American ships sail in groups

 5. What was the Selective Service Act used for? 
     To register men so they could be drafted

 6. What new weapons did WWI introduce?
     The tank and the airplane

7. How did the Espionage and Sedition Act affect Freedom of Speech and Labor Unions?
      prevented people from doing and saying what they want.

 8. Why was there opposition to President Wilson's League of Nations?
     they felt that the league of nations would push the u.s. into another war

American Imperialism after Spanish-American War

a.  How did the U.S. change Cuba's Constitution?
       Platt Amendment, stating that:

• Cuba could not make treaties that might limit its independence or permit a foreign power to control any part of its territory
• the United States reserved the right to intervene in Cuba
• Cuba was not to go into debt
• the United States could buy or lease land on the island for naval stations and refueling stations

b. What did the Roosevelt Corollary build on?   They built on the Monroe Doctrine

c. Pancho Villa was pursued by whom?   John J. Pershing pursued Pancho Villa.

d. How did the U.S. get the land for the panama Canal?    The united states asked panama to buy Columbia.

e. What is ment by "speak softlyand carry a big stick"?     That negotiations will be back by military force

Spanish-American War

a. Why did Jose Martini destroy U.S. property? To get the american people angry so they can fight cuba
b. Who did the de LOme letter criticize? What were the consequences? How did this private letter become public in the first place
c. Who was the "winner" of the spanish-American War, and what were the winning? the philipines was sold to the united states for 20$ million
d. How was the spanish-American War connected with American Imperialism? they both wanted to take over land
e. How was the war started? Was it proper? Yellow Journalism, it was not the proper thing to do

Education has Changed. A little or A lot?

Essential Question: What examples from your years as a student are different from a student's from the early 1900's? What's still the same?

Unit Exam Study Guide

IMMIGRATION

• New immigrants move here because it was cheap and lots of jobs. Cities
• What law was enacted to decrease Chinese immigration to U.S.? Chinese Exclusion Act
• Immigrants in the 1870's arrived by.. Steamships for transportation
• The main purpose of Americanization movement was to.. Assimilate immigrants into the dominant 'American culture'
• The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was named...Angel Island

INDUSTRIALIZATION

• The smaller men in the room are.. United State Senators
• This new metal allowed the U.S. to make skyscrapers and new forms of contructions? Steel
• What would best reduce monopolies and trusts? consolidation, competition, or corruption
• These people were used to break labor strikes by working for less money. Scabs
• The #1 strategy that made Andrew Carnegie wealthy was to be cheaper than his competitors, T or F? False

FACTORIES AND PEOPLE WORKING THERE

• Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle was responsible for this law. The Meat Inspection Act
• Settlement Houses helped new immigrants assimilate. Who made these houses: reformers, politicians, workers? Social reformers
• An old apartment usually occupied by poor people was called a... Tenement
• What technology most allowed people to work away from... Electricity
• Upton Sinclair wrote his book on what industry? Meatpacking industry, meat, slaughterhouse

HODGE PODGE

• The illegal use of political power for personal gain is: nativism, graft, social darwinism
• Which industry would most benefit by standardized time zones: telegraph, railroad (to help train travelers), construction
• Tammary Hall was a famous: immigration processing station, NYC political machine, Chicago business
• Patronage is: A bribe, not doing what you say, putting a friend into a job
• Many rich people believed they worked hard, were smarter, and that God selected them is called? Social Darwinism

LEADERS AND VILLAINS

• The Gentlemen's agreement did what? decreased Japanese immigration and/or desegregated SF classrooms
• Industrial workers of the world (IWW) was organized by...Radical unionist, socialists
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was infamous for what? A shameful fire that killed 146 women
• The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to do what? Outlaw trusts and monopolies that interfered with competition
• The industrialist made vertical and horizontal integration famous. Andrew Carnegie

Coming to the United States 1870's

1. How much time was the trip from Europe and Asia, how would YOU have liked it?
The time it took for both Europe and Asia to get to United States was a long while it took many hours specially since the ships back then were very slow and being on a ship for a long time must have been difficult to be in. I don't think I would have liked it at all, If I don't like riding on boats now I sure wouldn't like to be in them in 1870's
2. What are the names of the main immigration processing stations in San Francisco & New York? Describe the immigrant's experience at each .
The names of the main immigration processing stations in San Francisco & New York were
San Francisco:
3. How did Denis Kearney try to stop Asian people from entering California in 1822? Why did he do this, and how would you feel if you were Chinese?
4. In 1907-08 the Gentlemen's Agreement did two things. What were they?

The Meat Inspection Act

Messy
Eat
Act
Theodore R.

Inspection
Nasty
Sinclair
Piles
Eradicated
Conditions
The Jungle
Impossible
Out
NAACP

Ate
Consumption
Tuberculosis

- This is basically talking about how the Meat Inspection was made because of Sinclair's letter sent to Theodore Roosevelt. Sinclair's letter mentioned how the meat was bad because of the germs that had been on it and also how bad they took care of the meat that was also sent out.