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Chapter 16 Vocab
U.S. History Chapter 16 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Terrance V. Powderly | Leader of the earliest significant labor union, the Knights of Labor, a secret society of skilled and unskilled workers from various occupations |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | "separate but equal" for blacks and whites were constitutional |
| James Hill | entrepreneur who gained fame and fortune in railroads, built the Great Northern Railroad |
| William Jennings Bryan | from Nebraska called the great commoner, was the resolution to stamp out the "gold bugs" |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | started the ferry service |
| Andrew Carnegie | born in Scotland but was forced to move west to Pennsylvania die to hard times, invented the method known as vertical integration, published "The Gospel of Wealth" |
| John D. Rockefeller | America's first billionaire, founder of Standard Oil company |
| John Pierpont Morgan | leading investment banker in America during the Gilded Age |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
| Thomas Alva Edison | America's most prolific inventor |
| Roscoe Conkling | senator of New York Republican political machine |
| James A. Garfield | half-breed from Ohio that was nominated for president |
| Chester A. Arthur | stalwart from New York nominated for vice president |
| Civil Service Commission | Pendelton Act established this and elinminated much of the spoils system |
| Grover Cleveland | New York's former governor nominated by the democrats for the election of 1884, because of his honesty, 22nd and 24th president |
| Benjamin Harrison | nominated by the Republicans during the election of 1888, he was the 23rd president |
| American Federation of Labor | formed in 1881, formed craft unions for skilled laborers |
| Socialism | advocates government regulation or ownership of the means of production |
| Charles Darwin | wrote "Origin of the Species" |
| W.E.B. DuBois | leader of the group that opposed Washington, argued blacks could not truly improve until having equal participation in American political process |
| Mark Twain | his work reflected realism, real name was Langhorne Clemens, wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi" |
| Stephen Crane | his work reflected naturalism, wrote "Maggie: a Girl in the Streets" and "The Red Badge of Courage" |
| Jack London | wrote from naturalist perspective, portraying the triumph of brute force over the cruel world, wrote "Call of the Wild" |
| horatio Alger | premier writer of such rags-to-riches tales, like "Luck and Pluck" and "Bound to Rise" |
| Dwight L. Moody | leader of the movement, urban evangelism, his idea was to spread the gospel in the challenges |
| James Buchanan Duke | nickname, "Buck", founder of the American tobacco company, captured 90% of the nation's cigarette market, it opened the way for greater economic expansion |
| William McKinley | Ohio representative introduced a bill, the tariff imposed higher duties on manufactured and agricultural imports |
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