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AP US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who build the Union Pacific | Irish immigrants along the way they would have to fight the indians off a land that was one theirs |
| Significance of transcontential railroad | Bonded the West Coast to the Union and allowed the western cities to flourish |
| In the whole process of railroad building what were the down sides | They tried to build railroads in places that lacked potential population |
| Vanderbilt's contributions? | Offered good quality railroad service at lower rates |
| Wabash decision? | Individual states tried to regulate railroad currpotion, however the Supreme Court ruled that they have no power to regulate interstate commerce |
| Gospel of Wealth | The idea that the wealthy should be responsible, do good deeds for society |
| Social Darwinism | Survival of the fittest - the wealthy deserve their money because they're the strongest and the best |
| Sherman Trust Act | Failed because the people who were supposed to be protected by the law were affected by it |
| National Labor Union | didn't allow blacks, black created their own Color National Labor Union |
| Knights of Labor | It was for skilled and unskilled workers, for women and men, for whites and blacks. Wanted to include all workers into one big union. The wanted an 8 hr day instead of 10 |
| Haymarket Square in Chicago | Labor disorders broke out, police arrived suddenly a random dynamite was thrown |
| American Federal of Labor | Only skilled workers made up of many unions, wanted better wages, hours, and working conditions |
| How were the new immigrants different? | They came from countries with little democratic experience and opportunities of advancement |
| Political machines | In return for votes in the polls, the boss provided jobs on pay roll, found them housing, gave them food and clothes |
| Social Gospel Movement | Clergy men sought to apply the lesson of Christianity to the sums |
| Jane Adams | founded Hull House to teach people the skills they need to survive in America |
| How does organized labor view immigrants? | they hate them. feel like they're taking all the jobs |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Prohibited all immigration from China |
| What role did the buffalo play in the lives of Plains Indians | They used every part of their body, for building homes, ropes, food |
| Effects on growing white population on Indians | Brought their diseases with them and they put pressure on the already decreasing population of buffalo |
| Sand Creek, CO massacre | Chivngton's military killed about 400 Indians who thought they were being promised immunity |
| Conflict in Black Hills | Custer trespasses on promised reservation and announces gold on their land people enter in search |
| Conflict at Little Bighorn | Custer planned to force Indians onto reservation but got wiped out when most of his army didn't show |
| A century of dishonor | The book opened up Americans moral sense, documented the govs harsh treatment towards Indians |
| Ghost Dance | After victory in Little Bighorn the Indians did a praise dance and the US Army took it as a war threat and killed many of them |
| Dawes Act | Wiped about tribal ownership of the land, and set the Indians up with 160 acres |
| Homestead Act | Allowed a settler to gain up to 160 acres of land if living on it for 5 years, improving it and paying $30 fee |
| Dry faming technique | because of the drought, created fine soil but lead to the Dust Bowl |
| Turner thesis | In order to understand Americans you must understand westward expansion |
| The Grange | Goal was to enhance the social lives of isolated farmers. Became a social club |
| Farmers Alliance | A group of farmers formed to socialize, but became weak because it excluded tenant farmers and blacks |
| Jim Fisk and Jay Gould | Two notorious millionaires had a plot to corner the gold market |
| Boss Tweed | bribery and fake elections to cheat the city of as much as $200 million |
| Credit Mobilier Scandal | a railroad construction company that paid itself huge sums of money for small railroad construction |
| Panic of 1873 | caused by too many railroads and factories being formed than existing markets could bear and the overloaning by banks to those projects |
| The Gilded Age | Called by Mark Twain, looked good on the outside but on the inside there was a lot of gov corruption |
| patronage | giving out jobs for votes |
| Plessey v. Ferguson | Plessey was 1/8 black and was placed in a separate colored car, justified separate but equal was ok because it didn't go against 14th amendment |
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