Chapter 16-19 Flashcards
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Played a key role in developing the modern navy. Wrote a book called “The Influence of Sea Power upon History”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Constructed the nation’s largest steel plant, employing fifteen hundred workers.
Andrew Carnegie
Made Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute into a leading black educational institution.
Booker T. Washington
Miners strike for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union.
1902 Anthracite Coal Mine Strike
What was the best mass production of steel?
Bessemer Process
Government agency that regulates the employment and working conditions of working servants.
Civil Service Commission
Revealed de Lome’s opinion about Spanish involvement in Cuba and criticized President McKinley.
De Lome Letter
An organized economic movement among American farmers to improve their economic condition.
Farmers’ Alliance
A spiritual movement that became the belief that it would drive away white people and restore their land.
Ghost Dance
Allowed white men to vote regardless of their illiteracy.
The Grandfather Clause
Laws that regulated grain elevator and railroad rates and addressed other railroad abuses against farmers.
Granger Laws
applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a “homestead.
Homestead Act
Designed to regulate the railroad industry,
Interstate Commerce Act
Known as the mother of social work.
Jane Addams
Was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.
Margaret Sanger
It was devised by the Democratic Party in that state to overthrow the Republican Party in Mississippi by means of organized threats of violence and suppression or purchase of the black vote.
Mississippi Plan
A policy favoring natives over immigrants
Nativists
A term from the late 1880s that came from the influx of Jewish and Catholic immigrants
New Immigrants
Acts Congress promoted for the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
Pacific Railway Act
a United States federal law enacted in 1883 that mandated that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.
Pendleton Act
The case that supported separate but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
a large population
Populists
the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.
Progressivism
a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance to United States government policies
Sitting Bull
A tax on imported and exported goods.
Tariff
Served as the 26th President of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt
The founder of the NAACP
W.E.B. Du Bois
