Chapter 17 Key Terms
After studying Chapter 17 of A People and a Nation, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each item listed below.
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural consequences of this item? as described in Chapter 17?
Frederick Jackson Turner frontier thesis
Buffalo Bill Cody
Slaughter of the buffalo & the decline of salmon
US Government’s reservation policy
Battle of Little Big Horn
Helen Hunt Jackson
Women’s National Indian Association and the Indian Rights Association
Dawes Severalty Act
Government’s Indian school system
Ghost Dance movement
Wovoka
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Mining frontier
Women and nonwhites in frontier society
Conservation movement
Omnibus bill of 1889
Newlands Reclamation Act
Standard time zones
Westward migration, 1870-1890
Life on the Plains
Homestead Act of 1862
Morrill Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890
Hatch Act of 1887
George Washington Carver
Ranching frontier
Open range ranching
Barbed wire
Chapter 18 Key Terms
After studying Chapter 18 of A People and a Nation, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each item listed below.
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural consequences of this item? as described in Chapter 18?
Thomas Edison, Menlo Park, & Edison Electric Light Company
Patent System
George Westinghouse
General Electric Company
Henry Ford
Mass production and the assembly line
Economies of scale
Child labor
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
Lochner v. New York
Muller v. Oregon
General railway strike of 1877
National Labor Union
Knights of Labor
Terence Powderly
Southwestern Railroad System Strike of 1886
Haymarket Riot
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Homestead strike
Pullman strike
Eugene V. Debs
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
“Mother” Jones
The “Uprising of the 20,000”
Women’s Trade Union League
John D. Rockefeller
Trust
Holding company
Vertical integration
US Steel Corporation
Social Darwinism
Principles of laissez faire
Gospel of Wealth
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
United States v. E.C. Knights Co.
Chapter 19 Key Terms
After studying Chapter 19 of A People and a Nation, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each item listed below.
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural consequences of this item? as described in Chapter 19?
Electric trolley
Urban growth
African American migration
“New” immigration
Ghettos
Chinese Exclusion Act
Barrios
New York State tenement legislation
“Model tenements”
Public Health Regulations
Steel-frame construction
Urban poverty, crime, & violence
Charity Organization Societies
East St. Louis riot of 1917
City engineers
Political machines
Political boss
Urban reform movement
Social reformers
Settlement house
Beautiful City movement
Importance of kinship
Circus
Vaudeville
Ministrel Show
Motion pictures
Birth of a Nation
Still Camera
Phonograph
Joseph Pulitzer & William Randolph Hearst
Yellow journalism
Mass-circulation magazines
Telephone
Cultural pluralism
Chapter 20 Key Terms
After studying Chapter 20 of A People and a Nation, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each item listed below.
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural consequences of this item? as described in Chapter 20?
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Munn v. Illinois
The Wabash case
Interstate Commerce Act
Tariff controversy
Currency Controversy
Bland-Allison Act of 1878
Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
Rutherford Hayes
James Garfield
Chester Arthur
Presidential campaign and election of 1884
Grover Cleveland
Presidential election and campaign of 1888
Benjamin Harrison
Ida B. Wells
Poll tax
Mississippi Plan
“Grandfather clause”
Civil Rights cases
Plessy v. Ferguson
Cummins v. County Board of Education
Jim Crow laws
National Woman Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony
Crop-lien system
Grange movement
White Hats
Farmers’ Alliances
Populist (People’s) party
Omaha platform
James B. Weaver
Depression of the 1890s
Eugene v. Debs
Jacob S. Coxey
Free coinage of silver
Presidential campaign & election of 1896
William McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
Gold Standard Act
Chapter 21 (The Progressive Era) Key Terms
After studying Chapter 21 of A People and a Nation, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each item listed below.
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural consequences of this item? as described in Chapter 21?
Florence Kelley
Muckrakers
Initiative, the referendum, & recall
Eugene V. Debs
Robert M. La Follette
The 17th Amendment
National Child Labor Committee
War on alcohol
The 18th Amendment
The Mann Act
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Charles A. Beard
Social Gospel
Eugenics
Booker T. Washington
Atlanta Compromise
W.E.B. Du Bois
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Margaret Sanger
Harriott Stanton Blatch
The 19th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
Hepburn Act
The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Newlands Reclamation Act
Gifford Pinchot
William Howard Taft
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Mann-Elkins Act of 1910
The 16th Amendment
Progressive Party
Woodrow Wilson
New Nationalism
New Freedom
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Underwood Tariff
War Industries Board
Chapter 22 (Quest for Empire) Key Terms
After studying Chapter 22 of A People and a Nation, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each item listed below.
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural consequences of this item? as described in Chapter 22?
William H. Seward
Purchase of Alaska
Transatlantic cable
Washington Treaty
Captain Alfred Mahan
New Navy
Hawaiian-annexation question
Hawaii’s 1887 constitution
The 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian government
The Venezuelan crisis of 1895
Cuban revolution
Jose Marti
Wilson-Gorman Tariff
General Valeriano Weyler
The Maine
The de Lome letter
Teller Amendment
Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War
Commodore George Dewey
Treaty of Paris
Emilio Aguinaldo
Philippine Insurrection
the Jones Act
the Open Door policy
Platt Amendment
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901
Panamanian revolution
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Portsmouth Conference
Taft-Katsura Agreement
Root-Takahira Agreement
Great White Fleet
Dollar diplomacy
Anglo-American rapprochement
Chapter 23 (Americans in the Great War) Key Terms
After studying Chapter 23 of A People and a Nation, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each item listed below.
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural consequences of this item? as described in Chapter 23?
The Lusitania
The Sussex Pledge
President Wilson’s proclamation of neutrality
Submarine and international law
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmerman telegram
Wilson’s war message
Jeannette Rankin
National Defense Act of 1916 and the Navy Act of 1916
Selective Service Act
African American enlistees in the military
General John J. Pershing
Trench warfare and poison gas
Bolshevik Revolution
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Food, Railroad, & Fuel Administration
War Industries Board
Revenue Act of 1916 & 1917
African American Migration
National War Labor Board
Civil liberties issue
Committee on Public Information
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Eugene V. Debs
Schneck v. United States
Red Scare
American Legion
Mitchell Palmer
Palmer Raids
“Red Summer” of 1919
Paris Peace Conference
Principle of self-determination
Mandate system
Balfour Declaration of 1917
League of Nation
Article 10 of the League Covenant
Treaty of Versailles
The “Irreconciliables”
Chapter 24 (The New Era) Key Terms
After studying Chapter 24 of A People and a Nation, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each item listed below.
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural consequences of this item? as described in Chapter 24?
Charles A. Lindbergh
Installment plan
Oligopolies
Teapot Dome Scandal
Calvin Coolidge
American Indian’s citizenship status
Bureau of Indian Affairs
League of Women Voters
National Women Party
The automobile
Federal Highway Act
The radio
Marcus Garvey
Mexican immigrants
Puerto Rican immigrants
Women in the 1920s labor force
The Flapper
Ku Klux Klan
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Nicole Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
The Scopes trial
Pentecostal religion
Motion pictures
Baseball
Prohibition
Al Capone
Lost Generation
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
1928 presidential election
Herbert Hoover
Black Tuesday
Stock Market Crash
Chapter 25 Key Terms
After studying Chapter 25 of A People and a Nation, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each item listed below.
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural consequences of this item? as described in Chapter 25?
Dust Bowl
“Hoovervilles”
Herbert Hoover
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Bonus Expeditionary Force
Franklin D. Roosevelt
20th Amendment to the Constitution
Banking crisis
National bank holiday
Emergency Banking Relief Bill (March 9, 1933)
Roosevelt’s fireside chats
First Hundred Days
Brain Trust
National Recovery Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Act (May 12, 1933)
Civilian Conservation Corps (March 31, 1933)
Public Works Administration
Father Charles Coughlin
Dr. Francis E. Townsend
Huey Long
Second New Deal
Works Progress Administration
Social Security Act (August 15, 1935)
Federal Theater, Federal Arts, Federal Music, & Federal Writers Projects
National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (July 5, 1935)
United Auto Workers’ strike of 1936
Indian Reorganization Act (June 18, 1934)
Tennessee Valley Authority (May 18, 1933)
Roosevelt’s court-packing plan
Scottsboro Boys
A. Philip Randolph