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chapter 7 test
social study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| gilded age | late 19th century 1800's age of prosperity for a few and corruption for other |
| Andrew Carnegie | discovered the process of turning iron into steel also an entrepreneur |
| John D. Rockefeller | created standard oil company also an entrepreneur |
| Joe Jackson | also known as Shoeless Joe Jackson was a mill worker since he was young he worked at brandon mill factory became an amazing baseball player all this was in Greenville |
| Wade Hampton | democratic governor who had followers called burdens |
| the burbons | people who wanted to go back to the antebellum period |
| james weaver | a pupils ran and lost in 1892 election first pupils to run for president |
| grover cleveland | winner of the 1892 election 22nd president |
| benjamin tillman | pushed for agricultural education farmer from edgefield, south carolina blamed Hampton and his bourbons for farmers problems followers were called reformers |
| thomas clemson | calhoun's son in law who helped establish clemson university |
| theodore roosevelt | was a progressive president who created the square deal protected consumers and environment conservation made the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act |
| william howard taft | he insured the 16th and 17th amendment and created the federal children's bureau and the department of labor |
| woodrow wilson | created new freedom wanted to attack tariffs and bunks creates the federal resources and the stores of grain |
| kate vixon wofford | 1st female superintendent |
| monopoly | a company that has total control of an industry |
| labor union | organization group to protect workers |
| the grange | organization farmers into groups to improve their lives |
| entrepreneurs | a business person willing to take risks by investing in and managing new businesses |
| promontory point, utah | where the union pacific and central pacific railroad met |
| mill villages | modeled after northern mill towns & where the mill workers lived |
| disenfranchise | to deprive someone of opportunity, especially of the right to vote |
| tillman's nickname for the senital | military dude factory |
| populist party | farmers alliance organized a new party |
| colleges' original and current names that tillman founded | winthrope training school- winthrope university clemson agricultural college |
| constitution of 1895 | pay poll tax 6 months before voting, no voting rights for people who committed a crime, lertricy test |
| jim crow laws | a black person must step aside to let a white person pass by |
| plessy v.s. ferguson | supreme court case that said seprate but equal facilities for blacks and whites (but they ignored the "equal" part) |
| progressives | did not like laissez faire and demanded the gov't work for the people |
| laissez faire | french phrase meaning "let alone" |
| 3 successful reforms of the progressives | initiative (citizens propose laws), referendum (citizens vote for laws), recall (citizens can remove an elected official from office) |
| the jungle | book that told about the unsanitary conditions of the meat packing industry |
| prohibition | banding alcohol |
| 16th amendment | federal income tax |
| 17th amendment | direct election of senators |
| 18th amendment | prohibition |
| 19th amendment | voting rights for women (1920) |
| dispensary system | state gov"t in control of alcohol |
| 3 things farmers alliance wanted | lower interest rates, gov't control of railroads, help marketing their crops |
| sc child labor law in 1903 | could not work under the age of 10 |
| sc child labor law in 1937 | could not work under the age of 16 |
| 3 ways the gov't attempted to keep blacks from voting | the 8 box law pole tax law the granfather law |
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