Exam 1 Flashcards
Sharecropping
Who: Plantation owners and freedmen
What: Plantation owners would rent out pieces of their land to blacks and make the cost of rent higher than the return the land produced. The renters of the land were bound by contract to continue to work the land until debts were repaid to the plantation owner.
When: Late 1860’s thru 1870’s
Where: Southern states
Why: Reinstituted slavery in a legal way.
Battle of Little Big Horn
Who: Native Americans and U.S. Army What: Major victory for Native Americans When: 1876 Where: Present day Montana. Why: Made the government more determined to defeat the Native Americans.
Andrew Carnegie
Who: Entrepreneur What: Successful businessman who became wealthy by Steel Business When: Late 1800’s / Early 1920’s Where: Pittsburgh Why: Responsible for building America
NAWSA
Who: Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Howard Shaw
What: Suffrage Movement
When: 1850s - 1920s
Where: Mostly New York and Washington D.C.
Why: Able to pressure congress to pass the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote
Grover Cleveland
Who: U.S. President
What: Only Democratic US President during the Gilded Age.
When: 1885-1889, 1893-1897
Where: Washington, D.C.
Why: 1st President to serve two non-consecutive terms and signed the Interstate Commerce Act into law.
Booker T. Washington
Who: Black educator What: “The Atlanta Compromise” When: 1895 Where: Alabama Why: Promoted the idea of blacks accepting “inferior” status to whites while pursuing an industrial education. With time, he believed, blacks would gain equality.
Populist Party
Who: Farmers
What: Movement to help the struggling farmers.
When: 1892
Where: Agricultural U.S. (West, North and South)
Why: 1st Presidential election to have a major third political party, which influenced the outcome.
Teddy Roosevelt
Who: President of the United States What: Trust Buster When: 1901-1909 Where: Washington D.C. Why: View Political office as duty to the Nation
