Unit 4b study guide
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| Idea of a classless society developed by Karl Marx | communism | ||||
| Idea of william James to “do what works from experience/experimentation” | pragmatism | ||||
| Author of Gospel of Wealth urging the rich to give back to society through charity | Andrew Carnegie | ||||
| Author of How the Other Half Lives documenting poverty in cities | Jacob Riis | ||||
| Wrote in everyday language. Book Gilded Age described the period | Mark Twain | ||||
| Author of “rags to riches” stories | Horatio Alger | ||||
| Author of The Red Badge of Courage in the realist style | Stephen Crane | ||||
| Founded the first settlement house in the US | Jane Adams | ||||
| Name for a large silver discovery of silver in Nevada in 1850 | Comstock Lode | ||||
| Two immigrant groups used to build the 1st transcontinental railroad | Irish and Chinese | ||||
| Site in Utah of completion of the 1st transcontinental railroad | Promontory Point | ||||
| Means by which the federal government subsidized building railroads | Land Grants | ||||
| Historian. Wrote about important of the frontier in American history | Frederick Jackson Turner | ||||
| Leader of the Apache who resisted relocation | Geronimo | ||||
| Leader of the Nez Perce who attempted to bring his people to Canada | Chief Joseph | ||||
| Leader of the Lakota Sioux | Sitting Bull | ||||
| Where treaties with the Sioux plains Indians were signed | Fort Laramie | ||||
| Site of the massacre of Native Americans | South Dakota "Wounded Knee" | ||||
| Site of Native American victory where the 7th cavalry were killed | Battle of Little Big Horn | ||||
| Leader of the 7th cavalry in the Plains Wars | George A. Custer | ||||
| Legislation tried to get Native American to assimilate into the white culture as farmers | Dawes Act | ||||
| Wrote "A Century of DIshonor" about the government mistreatment of Native Americans | Helen Hunt Jackson | ||||
| Organization of farmers that provided social activities, education, and cooperative buying | Grange | ||||
| Proposal of farmers how to increase the money supply/ crop prices | Bimettalism | ||||
| Political Party formed by farmers | Populist Party | ||||
| Candidate of the Populist Party in the 1892 election | James B. Weaver | ||||
| Democratic candidate in 1896 who supported a free silver platform | William J. Bryan | ||||
| Republican candidate in 1896 who supported the gold standard | William Mckinley | ||||
| Law fave land to states to establish colleges for vocational training | Morill Act of 1862 | ||||
| This legislation encouraged settlement of the West by offering cheap land | Homestead Act | ||||
| State legislation regulating the railroad industry. Ruled unconstitutional | Granger laws | ||||
| Supreme Court decision that overturned state regulation of railroads | Wabash vs. Illinois | ||||
| Federal legislation regulating railroads | Interstate Commerce Act | ||||
| Invented the telegraph to improve communications | Samuel Morse | ||||
| Invented the telephone | Alexander G. Bell | ||||
| Invented the phonograph. Perfected the light bulb | Thomas Edison | ||||
| Invented the sewing machine, reducing cost of making clothes | Elias Howe | ||||
| Invented the typewriter | Latham C. Sholes | ||||
| Business combination where many corporations are controlled by one board of directors | Trust | ||||
| Having control of an entire industry is to have a _____ | monopoly | ||||
| Process allowed the making of better quality steel for lower cost | Bessemer | ||||
| Agreement by companies to maintain prices at a certain level. Used by railroads when they divided routes among themselves | Pooling | ||||
| A company controls all the businesses/steps involved in creating a final product | Vertical Integration | ||||
| Corporation that owns the stock of other companies, thereby controlling them | Holding Company | ||||
| Industrialist involved in the steel industry | Andrew Carnegie | ||||
| Railroad Baron | Cornelius Vanderbilt/ Joy Gould | ||||
| Banker/financier | J.P. Morgan | ||||
| Industrialist who controlled Standard Oil Trust | John D. Rockefeller | ||||
| Meatpacking industrialist | Gustavus Swift | ||||
| This union organized all types of workers : skilled, unskilled | Knights of Labor | ||||
| This union went on strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company | American Railway Union | ||||
| Event that led to the decline of the Knights of Labor | Haymarket Riot | ||||
| Leader of the Knights of Labor | Terence Powderly | ||||
| Leader of the American Railway Union | Eugene V. Debs | ||||
| Leader of the American Federation of Labor | Samuel Gompers | ||||
| Strike against a Carnegie Steel plant | Homestead Strike | ||||
| Idea that the wealthy are the "fittest" and deserving of their wealth | Social Darwinism | ||||
| Idea that churches should be involved in charitable works in the community | Social Gospel | ||||
| Movement of middle class women to aid the poor and immigrants | Settlement House Movement | ||||
| Boss of New York City's political machine, Tammany Hall | William Tweed | ||||
| Female Union Organizer | Mary "Mother" Jones | ||||
| Criticized the business practices of John D. Rockefeller | Ida Tarbell | ||||
| Advocated Social Darwinism | Herbert Spencer | ||||
| Place of origin of "new" immigrants around 1900 | S&E Europe (Italy, Poland, Russia) | ||||
| Advocated "single tax" on property to aid the poor | Henry George in "Progress and Poverty" | ||||
| President whose assassination led to reform of patronage | James Garfield | ||||
| Democratic president who opposed all trusts | Woodrow Wilson | ||||
| He prosecuted more trusts than the "trustbuster" but was seen as not progressive enough by the "trustbuster" whom he succeeded as president | William H. Taft | ||||
| President known as the "trustbuster" and a strong supported of conservation | Theodore Roosevelt | ||||
| Political cartoonist who exposed the corruption of Tammany Hall | Thomas Nast | ||||
| Wrote "Shame of the Cities" about the corrupt practice of political machines | Lincoln Steffans | ||||
| Wrote "Bitter Cry of the Children" about Child Labor | John Spargo | ||||
| Wrote "The Jungle" about conditions in the meat packing industry | Upton Sinclair | ||||
| Wrote "How The Other Half Lives" about poverty in the cities | Jacob Riis | ||||
| Wrote "History of the Standard Oil Company" about unfair business practices | Ida Tarbell | ||||
| Established control of the money supply and sets interest rates | Federal Reserve Act | ||||
| First law to regulate the railroad industry but lacked power to set maximum railroads. Outlawed the practice of pooling | Interstate Commerce Act | ||||
| Strengthened regulation of railroads. Able to set maximum railroad rates | Hepburn Act | ||||
| First legislation meant to break up monopolies but was used against unions | Sherman Antitrust Act | ||||
| Strengthened legislation to break up monopolies. State that such laws are not for use against union activities. | Clayton Antitrust Act | ||||
| This legislation began reform of the patronage system | Pendleton Act | ||||
| Republicans who voted for the Democratic candidate in 1884 | Mugwumps | ||||
| Allows voters to introduced a bill for consideration by the legislature | Initiative | ||||
| Allows voters ro choose their party's candidate for the general election | Primary | ||||
| T. Roosevelt's 1904 campaign platform was called _____ | Square Deal | ||||
| T. Roosevelt's campaign platform when he ran again in 1912 was called _____ | New Nationalism | ||||
| This case upheld Jim Crow laws that enforced segregation | Plessy vs. Ferguson | ||||
| Authors who exposed society's problems in their writings were called | Muckrakers | ||||
| He believed that blacks should first develop economic power by learning a skilled trade and then social equality would follow in time | Booker T. Washington | ||||
| He believed in immediate equality for blacks | W.E.B DuBois | ||||
| This region led the way in granting voting privileges to women | Wyoming | ||||
| Nickname for Progressive Party in 1912 | Bull Moose | ||||
| Wrote "Lynching and the Excuse for It" against this practice | Ida B. Wells | ||||
| Amendment allowing for an income tax | 16th | ||||
| Amendment allowing for direct election of US Senators by voters | 17th | ||||
| Amendment that began the prohibition of alcohol | 18th | ||||
| Amendment that provided for women's suffrage | 19th | ||||
| This union organized only skilled | American Federation of Labor |
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Created by:
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on 2012-09-28