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History Mid-term
Mid-term exam studystack
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sheep Ranching | profitable enterprise troughout cattle boom |
| Cattle Drives | cattle ranching grew rapidly grew in Texas after the Civil War (originally) : long drives of over hundreds of miles with 3,000 cattle in attempts to reach railroads. |
| Purchase of Alaska | we bought alaska from russia; william h .seyward; seyward’s folly because the US thought Alaska was worthless. |
| Mining Camps | consisted of male residents. |
| Mining unions | minors protesting against unfair wage cuts. They union money helped to support injured minors and their families. YAH! |
| Bessemer Process | efficient method of making steel; developed by british inventor Henry Bessemer and American William Kelly in the 1850’s. |
| First oil strike | in PA; Edwin L Drake; stuck oil first with steam engine. |
| railroad industry before the civil war | |
| Menlo Park | park in NJ where Thomas Alva Edison opened up an invention workshop |
| ;promised minor invention every ten days and a big one every six months | |
| monopoly | exclusive economic control of an industry |
| corporation | company that sells shares of ownership, called stock, to investors in order to raise money. |
| Andrew Carnegie | steel master person dude. donated money to charity |
| George Pullman | most successful railroad giants; railroad cards; largest industry. |
| department stores | stores that sold variety of goods to cater to demands of Urban market, targeted women, chain stores. |
| Terence Powderly | became a new leader of all white men KKnights of Labor one of the earliest national unions that nine Philadelphia garment workers started) 4 yrs after becoming a leader he encouraged AA to join union. |
| Great Upheaval | year of intense worker strikes and violent labor confrontations in the US. |
| New Immigrants | immigrants who came to the US between the 1880’s and the 1910s mostly from southern and eastern Europe. |
| Ellis Island | in new york harbor; an immigrant station that would record the number of immigrants and examined them to see if they could stay or would be shipped back. |
| Education reform in late 1800’s | compulsory edu laws stated that parents must send their children to school (number of students in school rose rapidly and immensely) |
| Edith Wharton | wrote “House of Myth” describes conflicts between NYC Old Upper Riche (bankers, landowners, and merchants;earned money) and the Nouve Riche “newly rich” (inherited money like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbuilt) |
| Baseball in late 1800’s | rules evolved over the yrs. WIlliam Hulbert created the National League; governing body for the sport so players contracs and game rules could not be messed up r messed with; Cincinnati Red Stockings = first ever baseball team by Aaron Champion. |
| James Naismith | invented basketball |
| Millionaire’s Club | the Senate. (nickname for the Senate) |
| Underwood Tariff | reduces tariffs to their lowest levels in more than 50 years. introduced a graduated income tax (tax people with higher incomes at a higher rate than those with low income) |
| 17th Amendment | gave voters power to elect senators directly. |
| Recall | procedure enabling voters to remove an official from office by calling for a special election. |
| Clayton Antitrust act | clarified and extended the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act stating what corporations could not do; like they couldn’t by another corporation and stuff. |
| Wisconsin Idea | Robert Lafollettfe's reform program that became a model other state governments. |
| Galveston Committee | the city of Galveston appointed 5 people as a committee to set example and help government |
| New Nationalism | new platform that protected workers, ensured public health, and regulated business |
| Woodrow Wilson | focused on lowering tariffs, and trusts, proposed and attempted to influence congressmen with Underwood Tariff. |
| National Women’s Party | the party adopted a national rather than a state by state strategy, focusing on passing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | fought for women’s suffrage (right to vote); (19th Amend) granted woman right to vote;involve with woman’s suffrage movement. |
| Washington Gladden | reform minister that petitioned President Roosevelt for help and protection against the united mine workers act. |
| Department of Labor | congress created it to enforce labor laws ;8 hr work days, safety laws) |
| Panama Canal | owned by Columbia, hardest canal to build, working conditions were very rough. US wanted a shortcut from the Caribbean to the Pacific, they wanted to dig canal across SA. |
| McKinley Tariff | created a crisis by ending Hawaii’s favored position in the sugar trade. The law permitted all countries to ship sugar duty free to the US; killed Hawaii’s economy. |
| Queen Liliuokalani | daughter of King K, who tried keeping throne for Hawaiians but was eventually overthrown by US. |
| Commodore Dewey | led the US troops to attack the Philippines; destroyed the spanish fleet with Emilio Anguinaldo because he got the orders from Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Boxers | Chinese attacked missionaries and everything dealing with Western culture. |
| Great White Fleet | 14 destroyers, 16 battleships, US Navy sent to show Japan military US might |
| William Randolph Hearst | became owner of the “San Francisco Examiner” ; became a wealthy man off of that. |
| Jose Marti | a poet who was banished to Spain, earned a degree, then banished again for activism; he worked for his cuban independence. |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | set up provisional government and proclaimed himself president of panama. |
| Spanish American War | war declared by the United States on Spain to help Cuba overthrow Spanish rule. |
| Monroe Doctrine | President James Monroe statement that the US would not interfere in European colonies in Latin America but would consider any new attempt to colonize in the Western Hemisphere an act of hostility. US is protecter of the Western Hemisphere |
| Sheep Ranching | profitable enterprise troughout cattle boom |
| Cattle Drives | cattle ranching grew rapidly grew in Texas after the Civil War (originally) : long drives of over hundreds of miles with 3,000 cattle in attempts to reach railroads. |
| Purchase of Alaska | we bought alaska from russia; william h .seyward; seyward’s folly because the US thought Alaska was worthless. |
| Mining Camps | consisted of male residents. |
| Mining unions | minors protesting against unfair wage cuts. They union money helped to support injured minors and their families. YAH! |
| Bessemer Process | efficient method of making steel; developed by british inventor Henry Bessemer and American William Kelly in the 1850’s. |
| First oil strike | in PA; Edwin L Drake; stuck oil first with steam engine. |
| railroad industry before the civil war | |
| Menlo Park | park in NJ where Thomas Alva Edison opened up an invention workshop |
| ;promised minor invention every ten days and a big one every six months | |
| monopoly | exclusive economic control of an industry |
| corporation | company that sells shares of ownership, called stock, to investors in order to raise money. |
| Andrew Carnegie | steel master person dude. donated money to charity |
| George Pullman | most successful railroad giants; railroad cards; largest industry. |
| department stores | stores that sold variety of goods to cater to demands of Urban market, targeted women, chain stores. |
| Terence Powderly | became a new leader of all white men KKnights of Labor one of the earliest national unions that nine Philadelphia garment workers started) 4 yrs after becoming a leader he encouraged AA to join union. |
| Great Upheaval | year of intense worker strikes and violent labor confrontations in the US. |
| New Immigrants | immigrants who came to the US between the 1880’s and the 1910s mostly from southern and eastern Europe. |
| Ellis Island | in new york harbor; an immigrant station that would record the number of immigrants and examined them to see if they could stay or would be shipped back. |
| Education reform in late 1800’s | compulsory edu laws stated that parents must send their children to school (number of students in school rose rapidly and immensely) |
| Edith Wharton | wrote “House of Myth” describes conflicts between NYC Old Upper Riche (bankers, landowners, and merchants;earned money) and the Nouve Riche “newly rich” (inherited money like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbuilt) |
| Baseball in late 1800’s | rules evolved over the yrs. WIlliam Hulbert created the National League; governing body for the sport so players contracs and game rules could not be messed up r messed with; “national gave of the US” ; Cincinnati Red Stockings Aaron Champion. |
| James Naismith | invented basketball |
| Millionaire’s Club | the Senate. (nickname for the Senate) |
| Underwood Tariff | reduces tariffs to their lowest levels in more than 50 years. introduced a graduated income tax (tax people with higher incomes at a higher rate than those with low income) |
| 17th Amendment | gave voters power to elect senators directly. |
| Recall | procedure enabling voters to remove an official from office by calling for a special election. |
| Clayton Antitrust act | clarified and extended the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act stating what corporations could not do; like they couldn’t by another corporation and stuff. |
| Wisconsin Idea | Robert Lafollettfe's reform program that became a model other state governments. |
| Galveston Committee | the city of Galveston appointed 5 people as a committee to set example and help government |
| New Nationalism | new platform that protected workers, ensured public health, and regulated business |
| Woodrow Wilson | focused on lowering tariffs, and trusts, proposed and attempted to influence congressmen with Underwood Tariff. |
| National Women’s Party | the party adopted a national rather than a state by state strategy, focusing on passing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | fought for women’s suffrage (right to vote); (19th Amend) granted woman right to vote;involve with woman’s suffrage movement. |
| Washington Gladden | reform minister that petitioned President Roosevelt for help and protection against the united mine workers act. |
| Department of Labor | congress created it to enforce labor laws ;8 hr work days, safety laws) |
| Panama Canal | owned by Columbia, hardest canal to build, working conditions were very rough. US wanted a shortcut from the Caribbean to the Pacific, they wanted to dig canal across SA. |
| McKinley Tariff | created a crisis by ending Hawaii’s favored position in the sugar trade. The law permitted all countries to ship sugar duty free to the US; killed Hawaii’s economy. |
| William Randolph Hearst | became owner of the “San Francisco Examiner” ; became a wealthy man off of that. |
| Jose Marti | a poet who was banished to Spain, earned a degree, then banished again for activism; he worked for his cuban independence. |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | set up provisional government and proclaimed himself president of panama. |
| Spanish American War | war declared by the United States on Spain to help Cuba overthrow Spanish rule. |
| Monroe Doctrine | President James Monroe statement that the US would not interfere in European colonies in Latin America but would consider any new attempt to colonize in the Western Hemisphere an act of hostility. US is protecter of the Western Hemisphere |
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