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Historychapters18-20
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Exoduster | african american who fled the |
| homestead | 160 acres of land granted by the goverment gor living on the land for five years |
| sweatshop | a sweatshop was a |
| reservation | tracts of land set aside for people |
| wounded knee | creek where sioux foughat and lost over 200 men |
| boomtown | towns that sprang up and waere usually lawless and rowdey |
| railroads | heped to build western econemy by transporting goods and people |
| homestead act | encourged settlers to claim land out west |
| western oppertunity | african americans were safer from discrimination in the south and women had much more freeedom ie owning land |
| the dawes act | aimed to elemenate the nomadic tredition and lack of owning private property |
| why farmers formed granges and alliences | to suppoert each other in bad times |
| national grange | offered education, fellowship, co-op buying and selling, and support |
| populist party | goverment should own railroads, telegraph lines, free silver, national income tax, shorter hours, secret ballots, and labor reforms |
| anti-sherman trust act | outlawed monopolies and trusts |
| unhappy feelings towards labor unions | sometimes strikes turned violent |
| geronimo | apache who led raids on raids on settlers in arizona during 1880's |
| sitting bull | leader of lakota souix who deafeated custer |
| chief joseph | nez perce who led band across 1400 miles evading the army |
| henry ford | form detroit, michigan and in 1908 produced the model T using an assembly line |
| alexander graham bell | invented the telephone in 1876 |
| andrew carnegie | great philathropist who took control of the steel industry using vertical intergration |
| gorver cleveland | president who sent troops to end pullman strike |
| thomas edison | "dull" boy who invented many items including the lightbulb |
| george washington carver | invented hundreds of products using the peanut |
| booker t washington | teacher who founded the tuskegee institute in alabama to train teachers |
| john rockefeller | formed the standerd oil company and created a monoply of the oil industry |
| john dewey | leading spokesperson of progressive education |
| mark twain | famous writer who was a realist and regionalist |
| joseph pulitzer | perchased world newspaper and used more modern technices to increase readers |
| william randolph hearst | made a newspaper more popular than the world by using yellow jornalism |
| james whistler | american painter who painted a famous black and white picture |
| james addams | started the hull house |
| marry harris jones | fought for 50 years for workors rights |
| samuel morse | invented the telegraph and morse code |
| fredrick law omestead | led the city beautiful program and designed central park |
| sweatshop | a garmet factory with unhealthy conditions |
| tenement | apartment in the slums |
| brooklyn bridge | bridge in new york city that is 1600 feet long |
| assambly line | a production method where a worker preforms the same tsask all day every day |
| transcontinental railroad | railroad that crossed from the mississippi river to the west coast |
| little bighorn | the slaughter when sitting bull and crazy horse defeated custer |
| ellis island | east coast immigration center in new york city that opened in 1892 |
| assimilate | when a larger group incorparates a smaller group |
| mass production | creating large amounts of goods more wuickly |
| monopoly | total or almost total control of an industry |
| philanthropy | the use of money to benifit the community |
| realism | was writing aboutregular people |
| regionalism | writing about a partcular region |
| vaudeville | a collecton of shows like magic, dancing, singing, amd comedy |
| yellow jornalism | exagerated newspaper that focused on the greusome facts |
| horizontal intergration | combining compiting firm s into one corperation |
| vertical intergration | aquireing companies that provided the needed equipment or sevices |
| goals of the AFL | higher wages, shorter hours, better working conditions, and the right to bargain collectively |
| morrill act | granted large swaths of land to states to be sold in order to raise money for education |
| difference between old and new immigrants | old immigrants were from western and from northern europe and were mostly english speaking protestants while the new immigrants were from everywhere else and had many differen cultures |
| nativist belifes | that the immigrants would take the jobs forcing pay lowered and that the immigrants were to blame for higher crime and unemployment rates |
| problems of urbanization | overcrowding, sickness, fire danger, and crime |
| connection of the arts and lesiure time | more spare time meant more people had time to develop and enjoy the arts |
| arguments for immigration | that the new cultures expanded horizons and that they "have contributed to our industrial, commercial, and social development" |
| arguments against immigration | that their willingness to work for low wages would drive pay down and that they take the money home and therfore out of the econemy |
| transportation that helped cities and suberbs grow | the cable car, trolley, subway, car and of course train all helped with daily transportation |
| differences that immigrants had to adjust to | some changes were religion, lifestyle, language, and the republic form of goverment |
| progressive education | a more hands on aproach with less memorization |
| city beautiful movement | a movement about reshaping the urban landscape because city dwellers should be able to expiriance nature also |
| triangle shirtwaist fire | employers locked the doors and then a fire killed all 150 workers died |
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