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History_6week
History six week tests
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A period of industrial growth in the late 1800's | Second industrial revolution |
| a process that made steel making faster and more efficient | Bessemer Process |
| He invented the lightbulb and started Edison electric, Many homes could not get electricity so he and his team of inventors created a power plant that provided electricity to a wider radius. | Thomas Edison |
| The rights of a product or service belong to you with one of these | Patents |
| Created the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Introduced the model T and the first to implement the moving assembly line. | Henry ford |
| Created the first plane | The Wright Brothers |
| Businesses that sold stock | Corporations |
| Succesful in the steel industry | Andrew Carnagie |
| The owning of all businesses used in the process of the manufacturing. | Vertical Integration |
| Head of a succesful oil company. | John D. Rockefeller |
| Owning all of the businesses in a certain feild. | Horizantal Integration |
| A legal arrangment grouping together multiple businesses under one board of directors | trust |
| Sold equipment to miners, head of Central Pacific railroad, and founded a university | Leland Stanford |
| "Survival of the Fittest" | Social Darwinism |
| Total ownership of a product or service | Monopoly |
| Law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade | Sherman Antitrust Act |
| Published a book incouraging people to think of workers as changable parts of the manufacturing process | Fredrick W. Taylor |
| The first national Labor Union | Knights of Labor |
| An organization of workers, working to acheive better working conditions | Labor Unions |
| Leader of Knights of Labor, and ended all secrecy | Terence V. Powderly |
| Leader of the American Federation of Labor. | Samuel Gompers |
| A labor union that organized individual unions and allowed only skilled workers in. | American Federation of Labor |
| Workers acting collectively | collective bargaining |
| An irish immagrant and fiery speaker, who helped educate the workers | Marry Harris Jones |
| A protest of the killing of workers asking for an eight hour workday, a bomb was thrown in the crowd | Haymarket Riot |
| A protest at Carnagies steel mill oposing a plan to replace workers with machines | Homestead Strike |
| Workers stoped traffic on railroad line, the federal government had to make them go back to work | Pullman Strike |
| Immigrants coming from Northern Europe | Old immigrants |
| Immigrants coming from southern and Eastern Europe | New immigrants |
| The area below the decks of a ship, tickets were cheep, conditions were horrible | Steerage |
| An immigration center off the coast of New York | Ellis island |
| An immigration center off the coast of California, dealt mostly with Chinese | Angel island |
| Italian immigrant started the bank of Italy, later became Bank of America | Amadeo Peter Giannini |
| Helped immigrants in cases such as sickness, unemployment, or death | Benevolent societies |
| Poorly built and overcrowded buildings made for immigrants to live in | Tenements |
| Places with poor working conditions and long work hours, where some immigrants worked. | Sweatshops |
| Banned chinese people from immigrating for 10 years, the law was renewed several times | Chinese Exclusion act |
| Public transportation for many people | mass transit |
| Residential neighborhoods outside of the main town | Suburbs |
| Cultural activities shared by many people | mass culture |
| Added the color comic to his newspaper | Joseph Pulitzer |
| Publisher of New York times added the color comic after Pulitzer | William Randolph Hearst |
| Giant retail shops | department stores |
| An amusement park featuring the very first roller coaster, Switchback Railway | Coney Island |
| A landscape architect who became famous for designing Central Park and more | Fredrick Law Olmsted |
| A journalist and photographer who wrote "How the other half lives" | Jacob Riis |
| A book exposing the poor conditions that immigrants lived in. | How The Other Half Lives |
| Centers where poor people could get education, recreation, and social activities | settlement houses |
| Turned a run down old building into the Hull House | Jane Addams |
| The most famous settlement house | Hull House |
| A reformer who convinced lawmakers to take action | Florence Kelley |
| A book that exposed the inequality of wealth in america. | The Gilded Age |
| Powerful organizations that used many methods to get their candidates to win for office | Political Machines |
| A political Machine who rewarded their supporters about 12,00 jobs | Tammany Hall |
| Tammany Halls boss,stole up to 200 million dollars from the city | William Marcy Tweed |
| Assassinated Pres. Garfield | Charles Guiteau |
| Set up a system in which federal jobs could only be given by the persons ability to do the job, this helped control political machines. | Pendleton Civil Service Act |
| People who wanted to help solve problems such as crime, poverty, and disease, they wanted reform. | Progressives |
| People (primarily journalists) who exposed poor conditions and problems of society | Muckrakers |
| Wrote articles exposing corruption in the city government. | Lincoln Steffens |
| Wrote about unfair practices of standard oil company and the meat packing industry in "The Jungle" | Ida B. Tarbel |
| Philosopher who focused on child education | John dewey |
| Brought together medical organizations, and supported public health laws | American Medical Association |
| Allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S senators | 17th Amendment |
| Allowed voters to propose a new law by signing a petition | Initiative |
| Allowed the people to approve or reject a law that had been proposed by a government body. | Referendum |
| Wisconsin's Governor, exposed information about how politicians voted | Robert M. La Follette |
| Congress passed federal law, making it illegal to ship items made with child labor from state to state | child labor laws |
| A fire in a factory were no one could escape because of locked doors and small fire escapes, lead to the passage of factory safety standards | Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
| Guaranteed workers compensation when injured on the job. | Worker's compensation laws |
| Stopped workers being payed to little for their work | minimum wage laws |
| Joseph Lochner challenged a law limiting bakers to a 10 hour workday saying that the state could not restrict an agreement made by an employer and his employee | Lochner VS New York |
| The court upheld laws restricting women's work hours saying it is a matter of public health | Muller VS Oregon |
| a system where the government owns and operates the countries means of production | socialism |
| Lead the IWW | William Haywood |
| A union that allowed women, immigrants, and blacks that fought to overthrow capitalism, declined by 1920 | Industrial Workers of the World |
| Fought for the restriction of temperance | Women's Christian Temperance Union |
| A temperance supporter who was famous for destroying bottles and breaking things at saloons. | Carry Nation |
| Banned the sale, production, and transportation of alcohol | 18th Amendment |
| the right to vote | suffrage |
| founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan b. Anthony to promote women's suffrage | National Woman Suffrage Association |
| Granted the women the right to vote | 19th Amendment |
| Believed Blacks should improve their education and economic well being, to be accepted and treated equal | Booker T. Washington |
| journalist who wrote articles about lynching and had to move north due to death threats | Ida B. Wells |
| Received a degree from Harvard, thought that blacks should protest to gain equality | W.E.B DuBois |
| An organization founded by DuBois that fought for equality for Blacks | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| made the grandfather clause illegal | Guinn v. United States |
| A society made by indians to help their equality | Society of American indians |
| An act passed after Ida B. Tarbel's The Jungle that made it so that food must show its ingredients and expiration date. | Pure food and Drug act |
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