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3rd Nine Weeks Test
AP U.S. History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Second president to be killed by an assassin's bullet; "the Canal Boy," hated saying "no", barely beat Hancock. Dark horse candidate, Republican. | James Garfield |
| The Oil Baron; master of "horizontal integration", he perfected the "trust" | J.D. Rockefeller |
| 2nd national labor union; began as a secret society in order to avoid detection by employers. | Knights of Labor |
| concentrated on attaining practical economic goals; went after the basics of higher wages and improved working conditions. | American Federation of Labor |
| federal matter, railroad companies adapted the Granger laws by raising their interstate rates; Wabash v. Illinois said individual states could not regulate interstate commerce; In effect, the Court's decision nullified many of the Granger laws. | Interstate Commerce Act |
| One of the bankers who moved in to take control of the bankrupt railroads and consolidate them. | J.P. Morgan |
| Elected president of the American Federation of Labor every year except one from 1886-1924. Only wanted skilled workers. | Samuel Gompers |
| A cartoonist who pilloried Tweed mercilessly. | Thomas Nast |
| Acquired in Spanish American War for 20 million | Philippines |
| Blaines stalwart nemesis; denounced the civil-service reformers in the New York World | Roscoe Conkling |
| Garfield's Secretary of State. Half Breed | James G. Blaine |
| segregation laws; passed by people in the South to discriminate. | Jim Crow Laws |
| Boss of the local demorcratic party who masterminded dozens of schemes for helping himself and cronies to large chunks of graft. | Boss Tweed |
| combining into one organization all phases of manufacturing from mining to marketing. | Vertical Integration |
| allying with competitors to monopolize a given market. | Horizontal Intergration |
| Henry Grady's speech; wanted the South to grow. wanted to industrialize. Elite | New South |
| progressor reformer who argued that granting women the vote would improve the social and political condition of American cities. Hull House | Jane Addams |
| It made compulsory campaign contributions from federal employees illegal and it established the Civil Service Commission to make appointments to federal jobs on the basis of competitive examinations rather than "pull" | Pendleton Act |
| Union Pacific Railroad insiders had formed the Credit Mobilier construction company and then hired themselves at inflated prices to build the railroad line. | Credit Mobilier |
| A radical movement that attacked the power of Wall Street, big business, and the banks; made up of small farmers. Grassroots movement | Populist Party |
| Democrat; served two non-consecutive terms | Cleveland |
| Two millionaire partners who concocted a plot to corner the gold market. They bid the price of gold up, while scores of honest businesspeople were driven to the wall. | Fisk & Gould |
| Ruled that "seperate but equal" facilities were constitutional under the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. | Plessey v. Ferguson |
| Working with the Panama revolutionists, he raised a tiny "patriot" army consisting largely of members of the Panamanian fire department plus 500 "bought" Columbian troops. | Philippe Bunau-Varilla |
| Went around the world showing off the navy. | Great White Fleet |
| Champion of black education; called to head the black normal and industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. | Booker T. Washington |
| Ran by the Greenbacks; he was an old Granger who was a favorite of the Civil War veterans and who possessed a remarkable voice and bearing. | James B. Weaver |
| Taken refuge north of the border after the Battle of Little Bighorn. | Sitting Bull |
| Surrendered his breakaway band of some 700 mile 3 month trek across the Continental Divide toward Canada, there he hoped to rendezvous with Sitting Bull. | Chief Joseph |
| Led the Fierce Apache tribes of Arizona and New Mexico who were the most difficult to subdue. They hated the whites and were pursued into Mexico by federal troops using the sunflashing heliograph. | Geronimo |
| The steel king | Andrew Carnegie |
| Agreed that the wealthy, entrusted with society's riches, had to prove themselves morally responsible according to a "Gospel of Wealth" | Gospel of Wealth |
| Labor disorders had broken out, The Chicago police had advanced on a meeting called to protest alleged brutalities by the authorities. A bomb was thrown which killed dozens of people, including police. | Haymarket Square |
| Massachusetts writer of children's literature; published "A Century of Dishonor" | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| Wrote "The Influence of Seapower upon History" argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance. | Alfred T. Mahan |
| Wrote "Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis" Advocated taking up the white mans burden. | Josiah Strong |
| Were going to the Panama Canal there, but didn't because there were too many volcanoes. | Nicaragua |
| Wanted a canal across America; expanded the Monroe doctrine; moderator between other countries. | TR's Foreign Policy |
| Organized by Eugene V. Debs; People went on strikes and turned over cars at The Pullman Palace Car Company | Pull Palace Strike |
| Republican McKinley beat Democrat Bryans; Ended the third party system; McKinley forged a coalition in which businessmen, professionals, skilled factory workers and prosperous farmers were heavily represented | Election of 1896 |
| Feeder of the new slaughterhouses; Texas cowboys drove herds over the unfenced and unpeopled plains until they reached a railroad terminal | Long Drive |
| Ended the Russo-Japanese War | Portsmouth Treaty |
| the two parties agreed Not to seek exclusive control of the canal or territory on either side of such a canal, Not to fortify any position in the canal area, Not to establish colonies in Central America. Went against Monroe Doctrine | Clayton-Bulwer Treaty |
| Queen in Hawaii who said that native Hawaiians should control the islands. | Queen Lil |
| General sent by Spain to Cuba to put a revolt | Butcher Weyler |
| yellow journalist who competed with Joseph Pulitzer | William Randolph Hearst |
| Helped American troops capture manila | Emilio Aguinaldo |
| Battleship Washington sent to Cuba, but it blew up and American blamed Spain and went to war over it | the Maine |
| Took over the Philippines | George Dewey |
| Constitution the Cubans wrote into; they hated the restrictions | Platt Amendment |
| Part of the invading army; consisted of western cowboys and other hardy characters; commanded by Colonel Leonard Wood but organized by TR. | Rough Riders |
| Hay's note said to Chinese that he urged them to announce that in there leaseholds or spheres of influence they would respect certain Chinese rights and the ideal of fair competition. | Open Door Note |
| Instead of letting European countries come in, the US would send gunboats to Latin American countries until debts were paid off | Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine |
| Japanese gov't would restrict immingration of Japanese worker if the US would get rid of California discrination laws | Gentlemen's Agreement |
| U.S. and Japan solemnly pledged themselves to respect each other's territorial possessions in the Pacific and to uphold the Open Door in China | Root-Takahira Agreement |
| Dissolved many tribes as legal entities; wiped out tribal ownership of land; set up individual Indian family heads with 160 free acres | Dawes Severalty Act |
| led Pullman Strike | Eugene Debs |
| Black leader; helped found the NAACP | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| Journalist/author; wrote "Progress and Poverty" said that the pressure of growing population on a fixed supply of land unjustifiably pushed up property values, showering unearned profits on owners of land | Henry George |
| Came form Southern and Eastern Europe; unskilled | New Immigrants |
| Insisted that the churches tackle the burning social issues of the day | Social Gospel |
| Said that when the U.S. overthrew Spanish misrule, it would give Cubans there freedom. | Teller Amendment |
| Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst wrote it | Yellow Journalism |
| Constitutional rights were not automatically extended to territories | Insular Cases |
| Founded National American Women Suffrage Association | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Colorado militia massacred a group of Cheyenne people | Sand Creek Massacre |
| General Custard's last stand; Sioux ambushed soldiers | Battle of Little Big Horn |
| gave away 160 acre plots of land; encouraged farming on great plains | Homestead Act |
| Chinese nationalist attacked foreign settlements in China | Boxer Rebellion |
| Cancelled a former treaty and allowed US to build Panama Canal | Hay-Pauncefote Treaty |
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