Era 6 Review Flashcards
Explain the various methods used to deal with Native Americans
- Killing them (Sand Creek Massacre & Wounded Knee)
- Dawes Act & assimilation
Why was the Dawes act significant?
- Wanted to “kill the Indian but have the person”
- They wanted to Americanize the Indians and break them from their culture
Explain the frontier myth and the role is played in settling the west
Portrayed as an area of unsettled land with heroic individuals that conquered native and Mexican-Americans
What was the importance of the Homestead act?
- offered 160 acres of land to any family who wanted to move, over 500,000 went
what were the three main industries of the frontier economy?
- mining (gold continued to be found)
- cattle ranching (cattle was now able to be transported via railroad)
- farming (homestead act)
Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?
- Wrote a book called “A Century of Dishonor”
- Publicized injustices done to American Indians and created sympathy but generated assimilation
Main goal of the populist movement? (5)
- Direct election of US senators
- Use of initiatives and referendums that allowed citizens to vote directly on laws
- Unlimited coinage of silver
- graduated income tax
- public ownership of railroads
Who did gilded age Republicans receive support from?
Men in business and from middle class Anglo-Saxon Protestants
How did Joseph Pulitzer shape american culture?
- Had a newspaper called “New York world” and it exposed political and economic corruption
What were the goals of the American Federation of labor?
- Higher wages
- improve working conditions
What was the outcome of the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling?
“Separate but equal” segregation was allowed
What were the collective goals of the progressive movement? (5)
- Protect social welfare
- use the scientific method to solve social problems
- promote moral improvement
- create economic reform
- reform the government
What was the Niagara movement?
- Led by Dubois and he met with a group of black intellectuals in Niagara Falls, Canada
- formed a program aimed at securing equal rights for blacks and later formed NAACP
What was the federal trade commission?
an agency that was empowered To investigate and take action against any unfair trade practice in every industry except banking and transportation
16th amendment
Income tax
17th amendment
Direct election of US senators
18th amendment
Prohibition of alcohol
19th amendment
Granted women the right to vote
What are muckrakers? who were they?
- Writers and journalist who attempted to expose corruption in American society
- Thomas Nast
- Jacob Riis
- Upton Sinclair
What were ethnic enclaves?
Groups of people with the same culture for a small community within a large city
Difference between old immigrants and new immigrants?
OLD: Germany, Scandinavia, Britain, high literacy rates, English speaking
NEW: Italian, Greek, Croatian, Slovakian, Polish, and Russian, low literacy rates, Roman Catholic Greek and Russian orthodox, or Jewish
What was the Sherman antitrust act? why was it largely ineffective?
Act: Outlawed “combinations in restraint of trade”, law against monopolies
ineffective: To vaguely worded andSupreme Court ruled the law only could be appointed to commerce not manufacturing
What was the triangle shirt waist fire?
146 garment workers were killed in a fire because it had been locked into a factory by managers
Why was Roosevelt known as the trustbuster?
Implemented the “square deal” which was a series of reforms designed to protect people from business and break up monopolies
