Question | Answer |
Exoduster | african american who fled the |
homestead | 160 acres of land granted by the goverment gor living on the land for five years |
sweatshop | a sweatshop was a |
reservation | tracts of land set aside for people |
wounded knee | creek where sioux foughat and lost over 200 men |
boomtown | towns that sprang up and waere usually lawless and rowdey |
railroads | heped to build western econemy by transporting goods and people |
homestead act | encourged settlers to claim land out west |
western oppertunity | african americans were safer from discrimination in the south and women had much more freeedom ie owning land |
the dawes act | aimed to elemenate the nomadic tredition and lack of owning private property |
why farmers formed granges and alliences | to suppoert each other in bad times |
national grange | offered education, fellowship, co-op buying and selling, and support |
populist party | goverment should own railroads, telegraph lines, free silver, national income tax, shorter hours, secret ballots, and labor reforms |
anti-sherman trust act | outlawed monopolies and trusts |
unhappy feelings towards labor unions | sometimes strikes turned violent |
geronimo | apache who led raids on raids on settlers in arizona during 1880's |
sitting bull | leader of lakota souix who deafeated custer |
chief joseph | nez perce who led band across 1400 miles evading the army |
henry ford | form detroit, michigan and in 1908 produced the model T using an assembly line |
alexander graham bell | invented the telephone in 1876 |
andrew carnegie | great philathropist who took control of the steel industry using vertical intergration |
gorver cleveland | president who sent troops to end pullman strike |
thomas edison | "dull" boy who invented many items including the lightbulb |
george washington carver | invented hundreds of products using the peanut |
booker t washington | teacher who founded the tuskegee institute in alabama to train teachers |
john rockefeller | formed the standerd oil company and created a monoply of the oil industry |
john dewey | leading spokesperson of progressive education |
mark twain | famous writer who was a realist and regionalist |
joseph pulitzer | perchased world newspaper and used more modern technices to increase readers |
william randolph hearst | made a newspaper more popular than the world by using yellow jornalism |
james whistler | american painter who painted a famous black and white picture |
james addams | started the hull house |
marry harris jones | fought for 50 years for workors rights |
samuel morse | invented the telegraph and morse code |
fredrick law omestead | led the city beautiful program and designed central park |
sweatshop | a garmet factory with unhealthy conditions |
tenement | apartment in the slums |
brooklyn bridge | bridge in new york city that is 1600 feet long |
assambly line | a production method where a worker preforms the same tsask all day every day |
transcontinental railroad | railroad that crossed from the mississippi river to the west coast |
little bighorn | the slaughter when sitting bull and crazy horse defeated custer |
ellis island | east coast immigration center in new york city that opened in 1892 |
assimilate | when a larger group incorparates a smaller group |
mass production | creating large amounts of goods more wuickly |
monopoly | total or almost total control of an industry |
philanthropy | the use of money to benifit the community |
realism | was writing aboutregular people |
regionalism | writing about a partcular region |
vaudeville | a collecton of shows like magic, dancing, singing, amd comedy |
yellow jornalism | exagerated newspaper that focused on the greusome facts |
horizontal intergration | combining compiting firm s into one corperation |
vertical intergration | aquireing companies that provided the needed equipment or sevices |
goals of the AFL | higher wages, shorter hours, better working conditions, and the right to bargain collectively |
morrill act | granted large swaths of land to states to be sold in order to raise money for education |
difference between old and new immigrants | old immigrants were from western and from northern europe and were mostly english speaking protestants while the new immigrants were from everywhere else and had many differen cultures |
nativist belifes | that the immigrants would take the jobs forcing pay lowered and that the immigrants were to blame for higher crime and unemployment rates |
problems of urbanization | overcrowding, sickness, fire danger, and crime |
connection of the arts and lesiure time | more spare time meant more people had time to develop and enjoy the arts |
arguments for immigration | that the new cultures expanded horizons and that they "have contributed to our industrial, commercial, and social development" |
arguments against immigration | that their willingness to work for low wages would drive pay down and that they take the money home and therfore out of the econemy |
transportation that helped cities and suberbs grow | the cable car, trolley, subway, car and of course train all helped with daily transportation |
differences that immigrants had to adjust to | some changes were religion, lifestyle, language, and the republic form of goverment |
progressive education | a more hands on aproach with less memorization |
city beautiful movement | a movement about reshaping the urban landscape because city dwellers should be able to expiriance nature also |
triangle shirtwaist fire | employers locked the doors and then a fire killed all 150 workers died |