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Down: 1) also known as the Homestead steel strike or Homestead massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.2) Congress supported construction of the transcontinental railroad by loans and land grants to companies that were willing to help fund the transcontinental railroad. This gave builders wide stretches of land alternating on each side of the track route. Railroads encouraged economic growth in the West by tied the nation together, moved products and people, and spurred industrial movement. This caused the growth of towns and cities which in return caused new territories to form into new U.S. states.3) John Locke was an Englishman who applies reason to government and politics. Natural Rights are rights that every human being was born with. These Natural Rights cannot be taken away and these rights are Freedom of speech, religion, voting, and the press.5) Some of them may have come to America over 12,000 years ago when Alaska was connected to Siberia by the Bering land bridge. Some Native American tribes of North America are Cherokee, Iroquois, Maya or Yucatec, Aztecs, Navajo and Sioux.6) a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".8) The Great Depression lasted throughout the 1930’s and at its peak 25% of Americans were unemployed.9) Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of social reform. Populism is a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.11) an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. It was approved, after much debate, by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, and sent to the states for ratification.12) a group of colonies of Great Britain on the Atlantic coast of America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries which declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America. The Thirteen Colonies had very similar political, constitutional, and legal systems and were dominated by Protestant English-speakers. 13) He worked with business and labor leaders to achieve voluntary advancements and also reattempted to remain with cooperation of other groups.15) the United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.16) The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.17) The Scopes Trial illustrate the urban-rural split that was taking place in the 1920s by this trial making headlines and making the urban come together with the rural population. 22) This group was proposed after WWI to ensure that no nation would have a power struggle with another country or countries ever again. 25) The three requirements were Live on the land five years, build a road and dig a well. The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain. Across: 4) The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln effective January 1, 1863. It changed the legal status under federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the Confederate states from slave to free.7) Scientific management is a method to improve employee efficiency. This method was used by Ford by him studying his employees and seeing what methods of work fail and what methods succeed. Henry Ford pioneered the automobile, he didn’t invent it.10) Battle of Little Big Horn- In 1876, George Custer led a group of 250 men to Little Bighorn River in Montana and unexpectly came upon 2,000 Indians and the Indians killed Custer and all of his men. Wounded Knee- In 1890, Sitting Bull and followers got tried and arrested. The Sioux rebelled at Wounded Knee which is in present South Dakota. This marked the end of white expansion and large scale resistance to the Indian policies of the United States government. 14) A bank run (also known as a run on the bank) occurs when many clients withdraw their money from a bank, because they believe the bank may cease to function in the near future. This was quite common during The Great Depression.18) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity.19) Outlawed monopolies and practices that restrained trade such as price fixing.20) The three significant issues were how to reunite the union, how to rebuild the southern economy, and how to extend citizenship to African Americans. The 3 plans for reconstruction were Lincoln’s plan, Johnson’s plan, and the Radical Republican plan. Lincoln’s plan required 10% of a state’s voters to take an oath of loyalty to the union in order to form a new government and rejoin the union. Johnson’s plan required former Confederates with property worth $20,000 or more to obtain presidential pardon in order to vote or hold office. He gave full pardon to others. The Radical Republican plan required 50% of a state’s voters to take an oath of loyalty to the union in order to call a constitutional convention and elect a new government. The six effects of reconstruction were union is restored, African Americans gain citizenship and voting rights, south's economy and infrastructure are improved, southern states established public school system, KKK and other groups terrorize African Americans. Sharecropping and other systems takes hold in south.21) an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.23) Allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines and required inspections of meat-processing plants.24) Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.26) the Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19 century, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. The scheme was assisted by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the cause of the escapees.27) The destiny that drove US citizens to push westward. 28) Woodrow Wilson was the 16th president of the United States. Wilson’s idea was “peace without victory”. He proposed a peace inspired by noble ideas and not by greed and vengeance. 29) the 19th-century movement of settlers into the American West.30) The assassination of arch duke Franz Ferdinand of Austria- Hungary and his wife Sophie. Trench warfare was used in WWI so the enemy wouldn’t see the allies sneak through. The technologies/ weapons that were used during WWI were poisonous gas, machine guns, flamethrower, artillery field guns, tanks and armored card, airplanes and submarines. The two leading causes for the US to get involved in WWI are the Zimmerman note which is a telegram sent to Mexico by German foreign minister Arthur Zimmerman stating that if the United States proposed war on Germany, Mexico would declare war on the United States. In return after a German Victory, Mexico would gain the land it lost during the Spanish- American war. The land would be Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The second event was Germany stopping production of US goods by contra banding goods which means only allowing British goods to go through. 31) This occurs when a taxing authority, such as the government, imposes taxes on its citizens and other entities but fails to provide them with a political voice through elected representatives. This was one of the main causes of the American Revolution. Those living in the colonies believed that if they were to pay taxes, then they should have adequate representation — and therefore, a political voice — in the British Parliament.32) The 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime, the 14th amendment guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens, and the 15th amendment forbids any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
 

 

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