UNIT IV Study Guide
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Name for a large silver discovery of silver in Nevada in 1850 | Comstock Lode
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Two Immigrant groups used to build the 1st transcontinental railroad | IRISH
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Site in Utah of completion of the 1st transcontinental railroad | Promontory Point
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Means by which the federal government subsidized building railroads | Land Grants
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Historian. Wrote about importance of the frontier in American history | Frederick Jackson Turner
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Leader of the Apache who resisted relocation | Geronimo
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Leader of the Nez Perce who attempted to bring his people to Canada | Chief Joseph
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Leader of the Lakota Sioux | Sitting Bull
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Where treaties with the Sioux plains Indians were signed | Fort Laramie
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Site of a massacre of Native Americans | South Dakota (Wounded Knee)
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Site of Native American victory where the 7th cavalry were killed | Battle of little big horn
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Leader of the 7th cavalry in the Plains Wars | George A. Custer
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Legislation tried to get Native Americans to assimilate into the white culture as farmers | Dawes Act
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Wrote "A Century of Dishonor" about government mistreatment of Native Americans | Helen Hunt Jackson
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Organization of farmers that provided social activities, education, and cooperative buying | Grange
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Proposal of farmers how to increase the money supply / crop prices | "Free Silver" or Bimettalism
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Political party formed by farmers: | People's Party (Populists)
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Candidate of the (Populists) in the 1892 election | James B. Weaver
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Democratic candidate in 1896 who supported a free silver platform | William J. Bryan
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Republican candidate in 1896 who supported the gold standard | William McKinley
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Law gave land to states to establish colleges for vocational training | Morrill Act of 1862
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This legislation encouraged settlements of the West by offering cheap land | Homestead Act
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State legislation regulating the railroad industry. Ruled unconstitutional. | Granger laws
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Supreme court decision that overturned state regulation of railroads | Wabash v. Illinois
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Federal legislation regulating railroads | Interstate commerce act
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Invented the telegraph to improve communications | Samuel Morse
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Invented the telephone | Alexander G. Bell
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Invented the phonograph. Perfected the light bulb | Thomas Edison
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Invented the sewing machine, reducing cost of making clothes | Elias Howe
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Invented the typewriter | Latham C. Sholes
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Business combination where many corporations are controlled by one board of directors | Trust
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Having control of an entire industry is to have a __ | Monopoly
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Process allowed the making of better quality steel for lower cost | Bessemer
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Agreement by companies to maintain prices at a certain level. Used by railroads when they divided routes among themselves | Podding
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A company controls all the business / steps involved in creating a final product | Vertical integration
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Corporation that owns the stock of other companies, thereby controlling them | Holding company
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Industrialist involved in the steel industry | Andrew Carnegie
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Railroad baron | Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Banker / financer | JP Morgan
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Industrialist who controlled standard oil trust | John D. Rockefeller
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Meatpacking industrialist | Gustavus Swift
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This union organized only skilled workers | American Federation of labor
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This union organized all types of workers : skilled, unskilled | Knights of labor
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This union went on strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company | American Railway Union
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Event that led to the decline of the Knights of Labor | Haymarket riot
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Leader of the Knights of Labor | Terence Powderly
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Leader of the American Railway Union | Eugene V. Debs
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Leader of the American Federation of Labor | Samuel Gompers
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Stike against a carnegie steel plant | Homestead strike
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Idea that the wealthy are the "fittest" and deserving of their wealth | Social Darwinism
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Idea that churches should be involved in charitable works in the community | Social Gospel
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Movement of middle class women to aid the poor and immigrants | Settlement house union
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Idea of a classless society developed by Karl Marx | Communism
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Idea of Henry James to "do what works from experience / experimentation" | Pragmatism
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Author of "Gospel of Wealth", urging the rich to give back to society through charity | Andrew Carnegie
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Author of "How The Other Half Lives", documenting poverty in cities | Jacob Riis
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Wrote in everyday language. Book "Gilded Age" described the period | Mark Twain
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Author of many "rags to riches" stories | Horatio Alger
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Author of "The Red Badge of Courage" in the realist style | Stephen Crane
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Founded the first settlement house in the U.S. | Jane Addams
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Boss of New York City's political machine, Tammany Hall | William Tweed
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Female union organizer | Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
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Criticized the business practices of John D. Rockefeller | Ida Tarbell
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Advocated Social Darwinism | Herbert Spencer
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