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US His 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Captain's of Industry | Industrialists who were known to build America's economy |
| Populist Party | Favored lower transportation costs and "Free Silver" to improve conditions for farmers |
| Sharecropping | Farmers farming anothers land in return for a share of the crop |
| Angel Island | Immigration station in San Francisco, California for immigrants from Asia |
| American Federation of Labor-AFL | Orginized skilled workers in a special trade and made specific demands rather than seeking broad change for improved wages and working hours |
| Tenement | Crowded, run down building divided into apartments that housed several families |
| John D. Rockefeller | Standard Oil company leader |
| Dawes Act | Divided Indian reservations into privately owned plots of land,encouraged Native Americans to be absorbed into American society |
| William Jennings Bryan | Presidential candidate for Populist party who delivered the "Cross Of Gold" speech |
| Open range | Vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed |
| Assimilate | To be absorbed into the main culture of a society |
| Thomas Edison | Inventor of the light bulb, phonograph and many others |
| Guilded Age | Period of prosperity which covered underlying problems |
| Ellis Island | Immigration station in New York Harbor for millions of immigrants, especially from Europe |
| Suburb | Residential area surrounding a city |
| Pendleton Act | Created a civil service system for the U.S.government |
| Jim Crow | Laws passed in Southern states separating blacks and whites |
| Graft | Bribery and corruption |
| Robber Barons | Wealty industrialists known for exploiting workers and the public |
| Knights of Labor | Sought to organize all workers, men and women, to improve working conditions |
| Trust | Companies assign their stocks to a board of trustees, trustees run the companies |
| Anarchists | Political radicals opposed to any form of government |
| What helped the industrial expansion of the United States? | Physical Geography, immigrants filling jobs, govern. encouraging business growth, nations favorable view of entrepeneurs |
| To form cartels and trust what often happened to small businesses? | They were bought out by larger firms |
| Sherman Anti-trust Act | Outlawed monopolies |
| Goals of the American Federation of Labor | Improve wages, working hours, and working conditions |
| Cartels | Loose association of businesses that make the same product |
| Social Darwinism | Belief that life consists of a struggle in which only the fittest survive |
| Monopoly | A single corporation controls an entire industry |
| Andrew Carnegie | Head of the steel industry, sold it an became the wealthiest man in America |
| Gospel of Wealth | Carnegie's doctrine calling all the wealthy to share their riches for the betterment of society |
| Gold standard | Hard monetary policy |
| Which union wanted to create a system in which workers would own the factories they worked in? | Knights of Labor |
| Push factor-pushed immigrants from their home countries to America | Religious persecution and military service |
| Why were people from rural areas attracted to the cities? | For a more cosmopolitan lifestyle and jobs |
| What cultural changes took place as higher education expanded? | More peole could earn a high school diploma |
| What did railroads bring western farmers? | Farm machinery and home amenities |
| Who did the federal courts side with when disputes arose over former Mexican land in the Southwest? | Whites |
| Lead the fight for womens rights | Susan B. Anthony |
| Farmers' Alliance formed this political party to improve conditions for farmers | Populist |
| Union with slogan,"Eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, eight hours to do what we will" | Knights of Labor |
| Amusement parks | One example of new urban middle class entertainments |
| Henry Grady's vision for the New South | A mixed economy, including manufacturing |
| Over time, what issue caused tension between the railroad and farmers and ranchers? | High freight costs |
| Well known authors | Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Henry James |
| What would cause an immigrant to be sent back to their homeland? | Disease |
| When immigrants settled in the cities, what did most experience? | Life in crowded tenements |
| Demand for white collar works led to the formation of... | A middle class of people |
| A result of the growth of the middle class | The expansion of higher education |
| New South | Title gived to the South after Reconstruction by newspaper editor Henry Grady |
| Battle where the Sioux defeated General Custer | Little Big Horn |
| The discovery of this attracted prospectors to the West | Gold |
| This form of transportation helped ranchers get their products to market. | Railroad |
| Abeline, Dodge City, and Tombstone | End of the trail for the long drive where cattle were loaded on to trains to be taken back east |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Established doctrine of separate but equal |
| Wanted higher protective tariffs | Republicans |
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