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American his. vocab.
American pagent 14th edition vocabulary and people ch. 24-26
Question | Answer |
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a stirke in which the workers turned the tables on the pinkertons and routed them, only to lose the strike and their union when troops were called out. | Homestead |
the uncrowned head of his party, he served as secretary of state in the Harrison administration. | James Blain |
under this law, he federal government was to purchase the silver output of the nation, thus guaranteeing the silver industry a market for its product. | Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
The wealthy corporation lawyer who had no stomach for strict enforcement of either the Interstate Commerce Act of the Sherman Antitrust Act. | Richard Olney |
He headed a Wall Street syndicate that loaned the Cleveland government enough money in 1894 to carry it through the gold reserve crisis. | J.P. Morgan |
He was arrested for walking on the grass when he led a march on Washington to demand the expenditure of 500 million dollars for a public works program. | Jacob Coxey |
McKinley's sponsor and campaign manager, he was a conservative businessman and "standpatter" who believed that prosperity "trickled down" to the laborer. | Mark Hanna |
He swept the 1896 Democratic convention with the dramatic assertion: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." | William Jennings Bryan |
Name of the railroad started by James J. Hill. | Great Northern |
Railroad which began in Sacramento and went East. | Central Pacific |
Railroad which started in Omaha and went West. | Union Pacific |
Man behind the New York Central Railroad. | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
Act which was a first in the field of railroad legislation. | Interstate Commerce |
Case which said the states could not control the railroads because of interstate commerce. | Wabash Case |
The inventor who introduced the telephone in 1879. | Alexander Bell |
The man who went from $1.20 a week bobbin boy to amass more than $400 million. | Andrew Carnegie |
The first billion dollar corporation. | US Steel |
The man who made a fortune in the tobacco industry. | James Duke |
The man who made a fortune in oil. | John D. Rockefeller |
This organization, formed in 1887, urged voting against Roman Catholics for office and spread tails about runaway nuns. | American Protective Association |
A religious import from England, this organization offered aid to the urban downtrodden. | Salvation Army |
Successor to the lyceums, it was a popular program of adult education featuring nation wide public lectures by well known speakers. | Chautauqua Movement |
Name given conservatives in the churches who were against Darwinism | Fundamentalist |
Name given liberal churches who backed Darwin. | Modernist |
Sometimes called "the peanut man" he was a leading educator. | George Washington Carver |
This man gave much money for libraries. | Andrew Carnagie |
Champion of women's voting rights. | Susan B. Anthony |
Leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. | Francis Willard |
Kansan who was a leading prohibitionist | Carey A. Nation |
Inventor of basket ball. | James Naismith |
One of the first professional baseball teams. | Cincinnati Red Stockings |
The first professional baseball league. | National League |
He lost his entire command at the battle of the Little Big Horn. | George Custer |
The nez perce chief who lead a memorable march in an attempt to escape pursuing whites. | Chief Joseph |
Land fought over in the Sioux War 1876-77. | Black Hills |
General who captured Chief Joseph 15 miles from the boarder. | Nelson Miles |
Indian prophet who began the Dance of Ghost. | Wovoka |
Infamous Colorado massacre in which some 400 indians were slaughtered by territorial militia. | Sand Creek |
Person who called attention to government injustice toward indians. | Helen Hunt Jackson |
First congressional attempt to civilize the indians by destroying tribal customs. | Dawes Act |
A law that abandoned the principle that public land should be regarded as a source of government revenue in favour of a new principle of giving land to settlers. | Homestead Act |
Person who developed a superior barbed wire. | Joseph Glidden |
The way cattle were brought north to market. | Long drive |
Life blood of the plains indians that was slaughtered by whites. | Buffalo |
Most renowned scout and buffalo hunter in history. | "Buffalo Bill" Cody |
The faction of the republican party lead by Grant and Conkling that favored the spoils system. | Stalwarts |
The faction of the republican party lead by Blaine and Garfield that favored some reform of the worst abused of the spoil system. | Halfbreeds |
Although closely identified with the Stalwart faction, he turned against his former political associates when he became president. | Chester Arther |
Renowned as the so called Magna Carte of civil service reform, it was supported by republicans when they foresaw a democratic victory. | Pendleton Act |
Republican reformers who opposed the nomination of Blaine in 1884, and probably were a factor in the election of Clevland. | Mugwumps |
The organization of several hundred thousand union war veterans that sometimes played a significant role in the politics of the post civil war era. | Grand Army of the Republic |
Grandson of a former president, scion of a famous American family and civil war general, he was elected president in 1888 even though his opponent received more popular votes. | Benjamin Harrison |