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Unit 1 Test Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Eugene Debs | Former leader of the American Railway Union won nearly a million votes as the American Socialist Party Candidate for president in 1912 |
| Laissez-faire | A policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nations economy |
| Karl Marx | His ideas called Marxism,became very influential in Europe. Marx argued that the basic force shaping capitalist society was the class struggle between workers and owners. He believed that workers would eventually revolt, seize control of the factories and |
| Automatic Loom | Automatically replenished flat, or automatic, looms are the most important class of modern loom, available for a very wide range of fabrics. |
| Fixed Cost | Costs a company pays even if it is not operating(loans, mortgages, and taxes). |
| Industrial Union | An organization of common laborers and craftworkers in a particular industry. |
| Trade Union | Labor union |
| Operating costs | Incurred when running a company(wages, shipping costs, buying raw materials). |
| Jane Addams | Opened the hull house in 1889 |
| William Jennings Bryan | Made an impassioned pro-silver speech at the convention and won the nomination. |
| Thomas Eakins | An American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely known to be one of the most important artists in American art history. Paintings of regular people in day-to-day activities. |
| Ida B. Wells | African American;writings were a crusade against lynchings. |
| Herbert Spencer | Thought of the Social Darwinism |
| Andrew Carnegie | Donated millions to build libraries all over the nation. |
| Booker T. Washington | Founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881 |
| Scott Joplin | Titled as the king of ragtime |
| James Garfield | An aggressive conservationist;Roosevelt's former secretary but later replaced by Richard A. Ballinger |
| Abilene | A city in Texas |
| Sedalia | A city located about 30 miles south of the Missouri River in Pettis County, Missouri. |
| Chief Joseph | Leader of the Nez people, refuse to be moved to a smaller reservation in Idaho in 1877. |
| Longhorns | Any of the long-horned cattle of Spanish derivation formerly common in southwestern United States |
| Crazy Horse | 1840 – September 5, 1877 was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota. |
| Purpose of Stock | To provide an organized platform for people to buy and sell shares. Stock exchange allows price control of shares; two people. |
| Voting Restrictions | Voting rights act of 1965 |
| Hardships of homesteaders | Working on the land for five years before owning it |
| 4 types of mining | 1.sluice mining 2.hydraulic mining 3.placer mining 4.surface mining |
| Big corporations vs. small businesses | Small businesses turn into big businesses |
| Gross national product | The total value of goods and services produced by a country during a year |
| Tariffs:Republican and Democrats, protective tariff | A tax on imports to protect American manufacturers |
| Plessy vs.Ferguson | Upheld segregation using "separate but equal" justification |
| Impact of increased standard of living | Getting wealthier, more power |
| Long Drive | In 1886 when ranchers rounded up about 260,000 Longhorns and drove them to Sadelia Missouri |
| Closed Shop | In agreement in which a company agrees to hire only union members |
| Plight of Farmers | Less money for farmers |
| Wounded Knee | In southwestern South Dakota,was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government.An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux. |
| "Pikes Peak or Bust" | Gold rush either you found a lot of gold or you didn't and left |
| Entrepreneur | One who organizes, manages and, assumes the risks of a business or enterprise |
| Credit Mobilier Scandal | The Credit Mobilier was a railroad construction company, formed by the insiders of the transcontinental Union Pacific Railway. They hired themselves to build the railroad line |
| People's Party/Populist Party | -Sought government control over business to protect farmers -Supported national control of railroads, increase money supply and, direct election of US senators |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act | A federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit. |
| Political Machines | An organization linked to a political party that often controlled local government |
| Mass transit | public transportation, especially in an urban area. |
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