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APUSH Part 4
Forging an Industrial Society (1865-1909)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Waving the Bloody Shirt" | Saying which revived gory memories of the Civil War, became a prominent feature of the presidential campaign for Grant |
| Tweed Ring | Displayed NYC lack of ethics typical of the age. "Boss" Tweed employed bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections to milk the metropolis of as much as $200 million. |
| Credit Mobilier Scandal | In 1872, Union Pacific Railroad insiders formed the Credit Mobilier construction company and then hired themselves at inflated prices to build the railroad. The company bribed some members of Congress and the president, Grant. It was eventually exposed. |
| Panic of 1873 | A periodic plummet that occurred during this age of unbridled capitalist expansion. Profits failed to materialize, loans when unpaid, and the whole credit-based system fell. |
| Compromise of 1877 | Proposed by Henry Clay, it declared that a tie in the election would be broken by the Electoral Count Act, which was passed in 1877. It set up an electoral commission consisting of 15 men selected from the Senate, House, and Supreme Court. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | This act supposedly guaranteed equal accommodations in public places and prohibited racial discrimination in jury selection, although it was rarely effective |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | (1896) Ruled "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional under "equal protection" clause of 4th amendment. In reality, quality of African American facilities were much worse than whites. Facilities included schools, bathrooms, and public transport |
| Pendleton Act | (1883) Made compulsory campaign contributions from federal employees illegal and established the Civil Service Commission to make appointments to federal jobs based on competitive examinations rather than "pull" |
| Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois | (1886) Decreed that individual states had no power to regulate interstate commerce. |
| Interstate Commerce Act | (1887) Prohibited rebates and pools, required railroads to openly publish rates. Forbade unfair discrimination against shippers and outlawed charging more for a short haul than a long one on same line. Set up ICC to administer and enforce new legislation |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | (1890) Forbade combinations in restraint of trade, without distinction between "good" and "bad" trusts. Bigness, not badness, was the sin. This act proved mostly ineffective, although it did help stop labor unions or labor combinations. |
| National Labor Union | (est. 1866) One of the earliest national-scale unions to organize in America or Europe. It aimed to unify workers across locales and trades to challenge powerful bosses. It lasted for 6 years and had up to 600,000 members. |
| Liberal Protestants | Religion rooted in Unitarian ideas against orthodox Calvinism mixed with liberal ideas. However, it did face frequent controversies with fundamentalists. |
| Tuskegee Institute | Established by Booker T. Washington to train young blacks in agriculture and other necessary trades. This provided an opportunity that blacks hadn't had before. |
| Land-grant Colleges | Most of these became state universities, and in exchange, bound themselves to provide certain services such as military training |
| Yellow Journalism | Dramatization of current events by journalists. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were famous yellow journalists during this time. |
| National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) | (est. 1890) Founders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as well as Carrie Chapman Catt emphasized the argument that women deserved the right to vote because they should be equal to men. |
| World's Columbian Exposition | (1893) Held in Chicago as part of the City Beautiful movement. A landscape of pavilions and fountains honored Columbus's first voyage. |
| Battle of the Little Bighorn | One of the few Indian victories during the Plans wars in the 1860's |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | (1890) Indians in the Ghost Dance cult were brutally attacked and massacred by the army |
| Dawes Severalty Act | (1887) Dissolved many tribes as legal entities, removed tribal ownership of land, and set up individual Indian family heads with 160 free acres. It was promised that if they behaved like good, white Christians, they would be granted citizenship |
| Homestead Act | (1862) Allowed a settler to get up to 160 acres by living on it for 5 years and paying a nominal fee of about $30 |
| Gold Standard Act | (1900) Provided that paper currency be redeemed freely in gold, despite protests for coinage of silver |
| Great Rapprochement | Also known as the reconciliation between the US and Britain where they finally decided to ignore tensions between them and peacefully exist |
| McKinley Tariff | (1890) Barriers were raised against Hawaiian sugar in an attempt to convince white American planters to renew their efforts to secure the annexation of Hawaii to the US |
| Insurrectos | Group of Cubans that torched canefields and sugar mills and blew up passenger trains in protest to their Spanish overlords |
| The Maine | An American ship was blown up off the coast of Cuba on February 115, 1898. The US immediately accused the Spanish of committing the crime |
| Teller Amendment | (1898) Proviso that declared once the US overthrew the Spanish in Cuba, that Cuba would be given their freedom |
| Foraker Act | (1900) Act that gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government, although they were given US citizenship in 1917 |
| Insular Cases | (beginning 1901) Supreme Court case that declared Puerto Ricans and Filipinos might be subject to American rule but wouldn't enjoy all American rights |
| Platt Amendment | (1901) Opposing the Teller Amendment, declared that the United States could intervene with troops in Cuba if they saw it fit |
| Hay-Pauncefote Treaty | (1901) Gave the United States a free hand to build the Panama Canal and also gave them the right to fortify it |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Roosevelt's addition to the Monroe Doctrine, declaring that if Latin American countries were to have economic problems in the future, the US could intervene and Europe couldn't |
| Root-Takahira Agreement | (1908) Agreement between the US and Japan that they would respect each other's territorial possessions in the Pacific and to uphold the Open Door policy in China |
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