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UShist EXAM REVIEW 1
UShist EXAM REVIEW 1, Part 1
Term | Definition |
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Vigilante | rapid growth of cow town had no local government |
Black Hills | Gold; miners flooded into Sioux Land |
Dawes Act | Forced Native Americans to assimilate white culture-divided tribal lands into plots-reservations turned into farm land |
Populist | supported free silver to increase money supply |
Free Silver | Increase money supply and help increase crop prices |
Sioux Ghost Dance | 1890 US troops killed 300 Sioux men, women and children |
Railroads and Standard time: | Standard time helped people who scheduled long distance trains |
Mining Boom | Nevada, Colorado & South Dakota grew quickly and gained statehood |
Cattle Industry | Decreased because of settlers fencing land with barbed wire |
Carnegie and Steel | Carnegie dominated steel industry; controlled all processes in manufacturing steel |
John D. Rockerfeller | Oil industry; monopolized oil refining industry |
Jim Crow Laws | Separated blacks and whites in public places |
WEB DuBois | Founded NAACP - challenged discrimination in courts |
Booker T Washington | Tuskegee Institute to educate African Americans, Believed education was the way to gain rights |
Haymarket Affair | Because of this union membership dropped and opposition to unions increased |
Monopolies | eliminate competition |
Railroad Strike of 1877 | happened because of wage cuts |
Pullman Strike | happened because of wage cuts |
Homestead Strike | this locked out striking workers and hired Pinkertons to protect nonunion scabs |
Pinkertons | Protected non union scabs |
Robber Baron | 1800 business leader who used dishonest methods to get rich |
Sherman Anti Trust Act | Standard Oil broken up because of antitrust violations |
Standard Oil | Progressives though it was unfair for business to control industries by forming trusts |
Federal Reserve Act | created modern banking; government had more control over nation's money supply |
Jane Addams and Hull House | reformer opened settlement house in Chicago to help the poor |
Settlement house | Helped poor (Hull House) |
17th Amendment | Gave voters right to elect senators directly |
1912 Election | "Bull Moose Party" 3 candidates Wilson, Roosevelt and Taft |
Bull Moose Party | Theodore Roosevelt |
The Jungle | Upton Sinclair Exposed meatpacking industry |
Direct Primary | Democratic reform (1st seen in WI) allows voters to choose which candidates run for office |
Anti-Imperialist League | believed US government should not deny other people the right to self govern |
Roosevelt Corollary | Authorized US leaders to intervene in Latin American domestic affairs |
John Hay | Open Door Policy |