Major Problems of American History – Flashcards
Flashcard maker : Marlon Riddle
william howard day (ch 1)
salutes the nation and monument to lincoln
andrew johnson (ch 1)
denounces changes in his program of reconstruction
thaddeus stevens (ch 1)
demands a radical reconstruction
benjamin butler (ch 1)
argues that president johnson should be impeached
elizabeth cady stanton (ch 1)
questions abolitionist support for female enfranchisement
lucy mcmillan- former slave (ch 1)
testifies about white violence
father abram young (ch 1)
proclaims undying love for the confederate states of america
francis miles finch (ch 1)
mourns and celebrates civil war soldiers from the south and north
brigham young (ch 2)
exhorts mormon pioneers to plant and irrigate
irish vocalist sings of? (ch 2)
slaying the mormon ‘king’
katie bighead recalls? (ch 2)
(general) custer and the battle of little big horn
comissioner of indian affairs recommends (ch 2)
severalty and discusses custer
chief joseph (ch 2)
surrenders (to america)
where is the wyoming gunfight? (ch 2)
chinatown attack
What does Frederick Jackson Turner write? (ch 2)
the “Frontier Thesis”
Chinese Immigrant Lee Chew (ch 3)
denounces prejudice in America
Poet Emma Lazarus (ch 3)
praises the new colossus
immigrant Thomas O’Donnell (ch 3)
Laments the Workers plight
Unionist Samuel Gompers asks (ch 3)
“what does the working man want?”
Jurgis Rudkus discovers what? (ch 3)
drink in the book The Jungle
A slovenian Boy remembers what? (ch 3)
tales of the golden country
Frederick Winslow Taylor (ch 3)
manufactures the ideal worker
President William McKinley (ch 4)
asks for war to liberate cuba
Gov. Theodore Roosevelt (ch 4)
praises the manly virtues of imperialism
Filipino Leader emilio Aguinaldo (ch 4)
rallies his people to arms
The american anti-imperialist league (ch 4)
denounces US policy
Mark Twain (ch 4)
satirizes “the battle hymn of the republic”
The Platt amendment (ch 4)
limits cuban independence
The roosevelt corollary (ch 4)
makes the US the police of Latin America
theodore Roosevelt requests? (ch 4)
quest for manhood and empire
Racial imperialism (ch 4)
america’s takeover of the philippines
WCTU (ch 5)
blasts drinking and smoking and demands power to protect
NAACP founder WEB DuBois Denounces? (ch 5)
compromise on negro education and civil rights
Lincoln Steffens- journalist (ch 5)
exposes the shame of corruption
Jane addams (ch 5)
advocates civic housekeeping
Reformer Frederic Howe (ch 5)
compares america and germany
Sociologist william graham Sumner (ch 5)
denounces reformer’s fanaticism
Michael Mcgerr writes about? (ch 5)
class, gender, and race at home: the american birthplace of progressivism
President woodrow wilson (ch 6)
asks congress to declare war (1917)
Senator Robert M. La Follette (ch 6)
passionately dissents
A union organizer (ch 6)
testifies to vigilante attack
US government (ch 6)
punishes war protesters: the espionage act of 1918
wilson proposes what? (ch 6)
a new world order in the ‘fourteen points’
ambulance surgeon describes what? (ch 6)
what it was like ‘over there’
Negro leader explains what? (ch 6)
why colored men fought for america
publicist george creel recalls? (ch 6)
selling the war
walter Mc Dougall writes (ch 6)
Woodrow wilson: egocentric crusader
Robert A. Pastor writes (ch 6)
woodrow wilson: father of the future
The governor of california (ch 7)
tells of the “japanese problem”
Radio Broadcast (ch 7)
“Modern Church is no bridge to heaven”
defense attorney clarence Darrow (ch 7)
interrogates prosecutor William Jennings Bryan in the monkey trial
KKK defines what? (ch 7)
americanism
Margaret Sanger (ch 7)
seeks pity for teenage mothers and abstinent couples
Langston Huges (ch 7)
a poet of the 1920’s Harlem Renaissance
Fundamentalists battle what? (ch 7)
modernism in the roaring twenties
Song of the depression (ch 8)
“Brother, can you spare a dime?”
President herbert hoover (ch 8)
applauds limited government
Journalist investigates what? (ch 8)
the charges against the scottsboro boys
Henry Ford advocates what? (ch 8)
self-help
The Nation asks what? (ch 8)
“is it to be murder, Mr. Hoover?”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (ch 8)
says government must act
Father Charles Coughlin (ch 8)
denounces roosevelt and proposes a third party
Social security advisers do what? (ch 8)
consider male and female pensioners
John Steinbeck (ch 8)
portrays the outcast poor in the grapes of wrath
FDR is what? (ch 8)
an advocate for the american people AND an architect of ineffectual big government
American Missionaries (ch 9)
speak out about the rape of nanking
Nurses (ch 9)
rush to aid the wounded on the US naval base in hawaii
Roosevelt (ch 9)
identifies the “four freedoms” at stake in the war
Norman rockwell (ch 9)
depicts “freedom from want” for the office of wear information
A japanese american recalls (ch 9)
the effect of internment on family unity
a black soldier notes (ch 9)
the “strange paradox” of the war
Nisei soldier (ch 9)
honored with the gold star- and by jackie Robinson
General Dwight Eisenhower (ch 9)
testifies to the german concentration camps
G.I Joe (ch 9)
is fighting for home
American liberals (ch 9)
fighting for a better world
