2.10 - 2.15 ✔️

Question 1

Organization formed by workers meant to negotiate for certain things like better pay, safer working conditions, and better benefits

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labor union

Question 2

First major labor organization. Open to all genders and for both unskilled and skilled workers

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Knights of Labor

Question 3

A violent confrontation between police and labor protesters in Chicago that became the symbol for the international struggle for workers’ rights.

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Haymarket Riot 1886

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A national federation of labor unions that still continues today.

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American Federation of Labor

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When workers tried to protest the paycut. This led to a bloody confrontation between the workers and the hired Pinkerton security guards, killing 16 and injuring many others. (Carnegie Steel company)

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Homestead Strike 1892

Question 6

A widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the midwest. Government’s first time using an injunction to break a strike

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Pullman Strike 1894

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Attack on striking coal miners and their families - resulted in the deaths of 25 people.

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Ludlow Massacre 1914

Question 8

Social organization that fought monopolist gran transport.

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Grange Movement

Question 9

An American agrarian movement during the 1870’s and 1880’s that sought to improve the economic conditions for certain people through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy.

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Farmers’ Alliances

Question 10

Free market economic system where people believe that the invisible hand of the market guides the economy.

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Laissez Faire

Question 11

Federal law to deliver 10000 dollars of aid to purchase seed gran for farmers after a major drought in texas. Vetoed by president cleveland

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Texas Grain Bill, 1887

Question 12

A theory that applied the theory of darwinism to people. It essentially states that poor people deserve to be poor and rich people deserve to be rich.

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Social Darwinism

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A political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups

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Populism

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Politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century.

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People’s (populist) party

Question 15

Economic depression in the US where many lost their jobs and many farmers lost their farms.

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Panic of 1893

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Wanted to introduce silver as a basis for money as well (before this only gold was allowed to be used for money). Farmers + populists liked this as it would help them pay off debt

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Bimetallism

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When paper money is only linked to gold. Silver is not a currency.

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Gold Standard

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Populist Party’s list of goals from their convention in 1892

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Omaha Platform

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Populist leader

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William Jennings Bryan

Question 19

Created an interstate commerce commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry. AKA when railroads became regulated by federal gov.

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Interstate Commerce Act 1887

Question 20

first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.

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Sherman Antitrust act 1890

Question 21

the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909

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Teddy Roosevelt

Question 22

Roosevelt’s domestic policy agenda - Aimed to ensure fairness

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Square deal

Question 23

political philosophy of Theodore Roosevelt, an espousal of active federal intervention to promote social justice and the economic welfare of the underprivileged;

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New Nationalism

Question 24

A group of interests for only a small group of people.

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Special interests

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Act that defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor. Act to stop monopolies

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Clayton Antitrust Act, 1914

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This amendment allowed income tax to be collected

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16th amendment

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When people started moving from rural areas to cities.

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Urbanization

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The “board” that organized the war effort between industries

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War industries board

Question 29

When black people moved out of the south to the north in hopes for a better life

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Great migration

Question 30

Out break of racial violence in chicago. Also known as the chicago race riots

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Red Summer 1919

Question 31

Out break of racial violence in chicago. Also known as the red summer 1919

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Chicago Race riots 1919

Question 32

a system of stratification that focuses on the belief that some racial groups are either superior or inferior to other racial groups.

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Racial heirarchy

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a period in American history of dramatic social, economic and political change. More people living in urban areas than in rural areas

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Roaring 20’s

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scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall

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Teapot dome scandal

Question 35

the preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods.

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Consumerism

Question 36

large retail establishments that offer a wide variety of goods organized into different departments,

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Department store

Question 37

When people went into debt to buy things. They then paid monthly installments.

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Buying on credit

Question 38

a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.

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Assembly Line

Question 39

The rise in efficiency of production, allowing more good to be produced faster.

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Productivity

Question 40

Founder of ford motors and is credited with making cars affordable for the middle class

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Henry Ford

Question 41

It was an act that created a reserve from which banks could borrow money incase too many people asked for money. Added stability to the system.

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Federal Reserve Act of 1913

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A place where stocks can be bought and sold

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Stock Market

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The stock market crash where people lost a lot.

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Black tuesday

Question 44

the quantity of goods or services that consumers are willing and able to purchase.

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Consumer Demand

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When peope weren’t employed not because they didn’t want to be, but because they couldn’t be.

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Unemployment

Question 46

When many people try to take their money out at the same time

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Bank run

Question 47

When banks cannot give everyone their money, usually because of huge numbers of people taking their money out.

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Bank failures

Question 48

The drought that affected south central US. Greatly damaged agriculture

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Dust Bowl

Question 49

investment in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss.

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Speculation

Question 50

When you pay 20 % of the actual value of the share in hopes of making enough of a profit to be able to pay all of it back and make a profit. (eg, buy for 10, actual price = 50, price goes up to 100, you sell stock and make 50 dollars after paying the other 40 back)

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Buying on Margin

Question 51

A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, this president led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe.

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Herbert Hoover