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UNIT IV Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 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 importance 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 a 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 Americans to assimilate into the white culture as farmers | Dawes Act |
| Wrote "A Century of Dishonor" about 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 | "Free Silver" or Bimettalism |
| Political party formed by farmers: | People's Party (Populists) |
| Candidate of the (Populists) 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 gave land to states to establish colleges for vocational training | Morrill Act of 1862 |
| This legislation encouraged settlements 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 v. 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 | Podding |
| A company controls all the business / 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 |
| Banker / financer | JP Morgan |
| Industrialist who controlled standard oil trust | John D. Rockefeller |
| Meatpacking industrialist | Gustavus Swift |
| This union organized only skilled workers | American Federation of labor |
| 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 |
| Stike 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 union |
| Idea of a classless society developed by Karl Marx | Communism |
| Idea of Henry 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 many "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 U.S. | Jane Addams |
| Boss of New York City's political machine, Tammany Hall | William Tweed |
| Female union organizer | Mary Harris "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 |
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