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History Chapter 7
Industrial Revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Railroad | one of the first things rebuilt during the industrial revolution the main investor was Vanderbuilt |
| Vanderbuilt | organizes the railroad to the best of his abilities and is very successful |
| Grand Central Station | biggest train station and in New York |
| Time Zones | Vanderbuilt had congress creates these so the people in the west weren't getting on the train 8 am and it being dark |
| Thomas Edison | a famous inventor that created the lightbulb, dictating machine, motion picture camera, phonograph, and creates his own electric company |
| GE (General Electric) | first electric company |
| Nikola Tesla | works closely with Edison and creates the electric generator and ac and dc power |
| Alexander Grandbell | is credited for making the telephone |
| Thomas Watson | Granbell's assistant |
| Proctor Gamble | made the mistake of making ivory soap that floats |
| Johnson and Johnson | worked with Proctor Gamble and is still around today |
| RH Macey | went around selling things and ended up making the first department store |
| Sears and Robeck | was made as a catalog store where you could by a razor to a house |
| Gallet | First razor company and had disposable razors |
| Corporation | a company with government permission to raise money by selling stock |
| Trust | a company that controls many businesses in the same industry to cut out competition |
| Entrepreneur | a person that starts their own business |
| Philanthropist | a person that becomes so wealthy they give their money to organizations |
| Rockerfeller | bought everything that had to deal with oil |
| Edwin Drake | a minor in Pennsylvania |
| Andrew Carnogy | found a cheap way to make steal |
| Lewis Sulivan | first skyscraper is made and designed by him |
| Joseph Politzer | adds the comic, sports, and women's section to his newspaper |
| New York World | Politzer's magazine |
| Cincinnati Red Stockings | first professional baseball team |
| Princeton and Rutgers | first college football game |
| Naismith | creates basketball in Massachusetts as a gym teacher |
| Nickelodeans | a silent movie theater that costs a nickel |
| Charlie Chapman | was a famous actor that was in a lot of the silent movies |
| Brooklyn Bridge | connects Brooklyn and Manhattan |
| John Roebeling | designed the Brooklyn bridge |
| Electric Trolley Car | first in Richmond designed by Stephen Field |
| Stephen Field | designed the Electric Trolley Car |
| Jane Adams | started Hull House a home for immigrants to learn skills |
| Hull House | a home for immigrants where they learn basic training |
| Thomas Martin | an African American created the fire extinguisher |
| George Washington Carver | an African American that was obsessed with peanuts |
| Thomas Elkins | invented the refrigerator |
| Plessey vs Ferguson | that the Supreme Court questioned if separate but equal was okay |
| Plessey | was 7/8 white and 1/8 black and he decided to sit in the white section of the bus |
| Louisiana | Where Plessey tried to ride in the wrong section |
| John Marshall Harland | a supreme court judge on the Plessey vs Ferguson case |
| "Our constitution is color blind and neither knows nor tolerates distinction between color" | John Marshall Harland |
| James B Duke | started the first industry in the south and it was a cigarate company |
| Booker T Washington | started two trade schools |
| National Nigro Business | one of the trade schools started by Washington |
| Tuskegee Instetute | a school started by Washington in Alabama |
| WEB Dubois | a former slave that started NAACP and Freedmans Bureau |
| American Missouri Association | church organization that starts black colleges and hopitals |
| Hampton and Howard | first black colleges started by AMA |
| Force Act | gave him the power to go after secret societies |
| First Civil Rights Act 1866 | prohibited discrimination based on color |
| Mississippi Plan | prohibits discrimination in public in public accomidation |
| Hira Revis and Blanche Labruce | first black senators |
| Rutherford B Hayes | runs for president as republican and was gov of Ohio |
| Samuel Hildan | runs for president as democrat and was gov of NY |
| Hayes | president in 1876 |
| Compromise of 1876-1877 | says Hayes is President, ends reconstruction, north invests money in south, removes military leaders in south, all states agree to 13-15 Amendments, all states are equal in the union |
| Political Machine | building that tried to control election |
| Political Boss | in charge of Political Machines |
| Boss Tweed | most famous boss |
| Thomas Nast | a political artist that called out Boss Tweed |
| William Seward | Secretary of State contacted by Russia about buying land |
| Alaska | Land Russia was looking to sell to the USA |
| Daws Act | Said Native Americans had to give up their ways and become citizens or live on reservations |
| Homestead Act | Encouraged people to move west |
| Sioux | Indian tribe under two chiefs and were given the Black Hills as their reservation |
| Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse | The names of the Sioux chiefs |
| Black hills | Sioux reservation |
| George Armstrong Custard | Sent to move the Sioux off the Black Hills |
| Little Big Horn | Battle between the Sioux and the USA over the black hills |
| “When whites desire Indian land there is no appeal; the Indian must yield.” | Custard |
| Custards last stand | Another name for battle of little big horn |
| William Sherman | Sent to defeat the sioux when Custard failed |
| The more we can kill this year the less we will have to kill next | Sherman |
| Canada | Where the Sioux flee to |
| Nevada | Where there is silver but was also a Navajo Indian reserve |
| Com stock Load | The silver found in Nevada was called this |
| Navajo Indians | Lived on a reservation in Nevada |
| Kit Carson | Kicked the Navajo Indians out of Nevada |
| Barb Wire | invention by Joseph Glidden made and affected farming |
| Joseph Glidden | made Barb Wire |
| Texas and Oklahoma | where cows were raised |
| Chicago | where cows were sold |
| Joseph MacCoy | created the cattle train car |
| Dodge City | a city with a big Cattle train stop |
| "Boom" town | a town that popped up over night |
| "Ghost" town | a town that people left over night |
| "Wild West" | there were not enough police men to keep everything in order creating this |
| John Muyer | started the Sierra Club |
| Sierra Club | saved land that should be preserved for national parks |
| Yellow Stone and Yosemaine | first national parks |
| Populist party | Starts mid 1880s and are from the Midwest they dominate without holding office |
| 16th amendment | The right to pay income tax once a year |
| 17th Amendment | The direct election of senators by the people |
| 18th amendment | Called for prohibition |
| Prohibition | The band in all alcohol related items |
| Secret ballet | So no one would know who you voted for |
| Williams Jennings Bryant | Populist Candidate for election |
| “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold | William Jennings Bryant |
| Oliver Kelley | Started the grangers |
| Grangers | A farmers cop where you could buy things cheaper and in bulk |
| Munn vs Illinois | A court case allowing the government to interfere in private businesses for public well being |
| William U’ren | Introduces a recall, referendum, and initiative |
| Recall | Allowing the people to vote officials out of office |
| Referendum | When the legislature submits a law to have people vote instead of then |
| Initiative | When the people propose and pass a law on their own |
| Populist party | Starts mid 1880s and is farmers from the Midwest who have lots of influence |
| 16th amendment | You pay income tax yearly |
| 17th amendment | The direct election of senators by the people |
| 18ty amendment | Called for prohibition |
| Prohibition | Banned all alcohol and alcohol related items |
| Secret Ballot | Where know one knew who voted for who |
| Thomas Edison | Made the secret Ballot |
| Williams Jennings Bryan | The populist elected him to run for president |
| You shall not crudity mankind upon a cross of gold | William Jennings Bryant |
| Oliver Kelley | Created the Grangers |
| Grangers | A farming Cop where you could buy bulk for cheaper and you could put it on a tab and pay in the fall |
| Munn vs Illinois | A court case that proves the country can be involved in a private business if it affects public well being |
| William U’rine | Introduces the recall, referendum, and initiative |
| Recall | Where people vote to take an official out of office |
| Referendum | When the legislature submits a law to have people vote instead of them |
| Initiative | When the people propose and pass a bill |
| William Jennings Bryant | first presidential candidate to campaign outside their own state |
| Progressives | a political party that takes over when the populists die out |
| Chester A Author | Garfield's VP |
| Garfield | elected president in 1880 |
| Charles Guiteau | was not given the political job he wanted so he shoots Garfield |
| Pendleton Act | requires people to take a civil service test to be given a government job |
| James Blaine | runs for president against Cleveland |
| Cleveland | ran for president against Blaine in 1884 and won |
| Inner State Commerce Act | fix gouging by regulating prices |
| Gouging | when you raise the price without the need to raise the price |
| Henry Ford | creates the assembly line |
| Samuel Clemmons | writes under the name "Mark Twain" |
| Huckle Berry Fin | a book written by Mark Twain |
| Benjamin Harrison | Republicans run him for president in 1888 and won |
| Grover Clievland | Democrats run him for president in 1888 didn't win |
| "Billion Dollar Congress" | what congress is known as with Harrison because he spends a billion dollars in one year |
| Hawley Tariff | Largest Tariff ever and passed by Harrison |
| Anti-Sherman Act | said you couldn't monopolize your buisness |
| Alfred T Mahan | wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History |
| Midway | Island halfway through Pacific ocean between California and Japan |
| Frontier Thesis | Written by Fredrick Jackson Turner |
| Bryant | ran for election against McKinley in 1896 |
| William McKinley | ran for election against Bryant in 1896 and won |
| Liluokani | queen of Hawaii |
| Benjamin Doles | lived on Hawaii and got the US furit |
| Spanish American War | lasted 10 weeks in 1898 |
| yellow press | tabloids included the New York World and New York Journal |
| Delhomme Letter | a letter from the Spanish minister to the Spanish king saying McKinley was a weakling |
| Cuba | controlled by Spain and all people are enslaved |
| General Valeriano Wyler | Spanish General who was called the butcher for starving people on Cuba |
| USS Maine | sent by McKinley to check up on Cuba but is sunk |
| Teller Amendment | said IF we got involved with Cuba we would not take it over |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Secretary Assistant in the navy who is liked and has a Teddy Bear made after him |
| Moris Mitchon | made the Teddy bear because Teddy couldn't shoot a mama bear and her cubs |
| "He has no more backbone than a chocolate E'claire | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Teddy | quits being Secretary Assistant of the Navy and creates a special group to take Cuba |
| Rough Riders | Teddy's group of people to take over Cuba |
| Lenard Wood | lead Teddy's rough riders |
| "A splendid little war" | what John Hay called the Spanish American War |
| George Dewey | in charge of taking the Philpeans |
| Phiipeans | first place we wanted to take during the Spanish American War |
| Olimpia | Dewey's Ship |
| Hong Kong | a British Island where US had a station so we could attack |
| Manila | where Dewey goes to take the Philipeans |
| Arthur MacArthur | we left him in charge of the Philippians until Taff gets there |
| William Taff | governor of Philipeans |
| Guam and Wake | other Islands the US takes during the Spanish American War |
| San Juan Hill | only battle in Cuba during the Spanish American War |
| Treaty of Paris | ended the Spanish American War, the US got to keep islands and territories, and had the Platt Amendment |
| Platt Amendment | said the US could get involved with Cuba if it had to deal with their Life, Liberty, or Property |
| Guantanamo Bay | a military base also called Getemo |
| McKinley | runs for reelection with Teddy as his VP in 1900 |
| Bryan | ran for president against McKinley in 1900 |
| Teddy | becomes youngest President when McKinley is shor |
| Muckraker | a term Teddy creates about a writer who exposed corruption |
| Idah Tarbell | called the oil company a monopoly |
| Upton St. Claire | wrote the Jungle that called out how meat was prepared unsanitarily |
| The Jungle | written by Upton St. Claire about meat |
| FDA | created by Teddy after reading the Jungle |
| The octapus | written by Frank Noris and said railroads were unfair |
| Frank Noris | said railroads were unfair in The Octapus |
| "Trust Buster" | Teddy's nickname |
| National Park System | started by Roosevelt to dedicate land |
| Great White Fleet | the navy that is doubled by Teddy |
| "If Congress decides to leave the navy 1/2 wat around the world so be it" | Teddy |
| Columbia | rules Panama but we ant a canal so we take over |
| Panama | where Roosevelt wants to build a but through from the Pacific to the Atlantic ocean |
| Panama Canal | the cut through from the Pacific to Atlantic |
| Russo Japanese War | Teddy is their mediator |
| Nobel Peace Prize | given to Teddy for his work with Japan and Russia |
| Open Door Policy | meaning who we trade with can trade with anyone not just us |
| Matthew Perry | who we send to work with Japan about trading |
| Department of Interior | created by Teddy |
| Department of Labor | creates labor laws and building codes |
| Speak softly and Carry a big stick | Teddy's moto |
| Roosevelt Corilary | addition to the Monroe Doctrine said if there was a problem in the west the US would fix it |
| William Hennings Bryant | First presidential canadare to go outside his state to get voted |
| Progressives | A political party that took over after the populist die |
| Garfield | Ran for president in 1880 and won |
| Chester A Author | Garfield’s VP |
| Charles Guiteau | Wanted a job he didn’t get it so he shot Garfield |
| Pendleton Act | Required you to take a civil rights service test before you obtain government jobs |
| James Blaine | Ran for president in 1884 as Republican |
| Grover Cleveland | Ran for president in 1884 u see Democrats |
| Cleveland | Won the election of 1884 |
| Inner state commerce act | Regulate commerce by fixing gouging prices |
| Gouging prices | When a business feels like raising their prices for no reason |
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