Exam II

Question 1

Social Darwinism

Answer 1

“Survival of the fittest.” -said by Herbert Spencer
** don’t have to be the smartest/fastest but must ADAPT; justify wealth :: Believed some people were born to be successful.

Question 2

Homestead Strike

Answer 2

Carnegie:: happened in the Stillmills | He got no help for the strike so he hires people, mercenaries, to break the strikes.

Question 3

Mugwumps

Answer 3

Young republican political activists who bolted from the United States Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United States presidential election of 1884.
** Want spoils system changed.

Question 4

Jay Gould

Answer 4

Greenback (title money in system.)
Inflation: $$ is at loss, the amount being printed is not enough.
LACK OF GOLD

Question 5

Bessemer Process

Answer 5

carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort

Question 6

Gospel of Wealth

Answer 6

Written by Andrew Carnegie: describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.

Question 7

Molly Maguires

Answer 7

Virginia, Pennsylvania, Irish - terrorists. | Activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania.

Question 8

Charles Guiteau

Answer 8

convicted of the assassination of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States

Question 9

The Chicago School

Answer 9

Group of architects get together to compare notes.

Question 10

Political Machines

Answer 10

These machines were used for voting in urban areas but were easily exploited. A journalist, Lincoln Steffens, wrote on how the Political Machines actually wrote so votes were silenced with ballets.

Question 11

Subtreasury

Answer 11

The people’s party. Cost of goods vary. The plan sought to revolutionize credit and marketing arrangements for staple crops, particularly cotton.

Question 12

National Woman Suffrage Association vs. American Women Suffrage Movement

Answer 12

👽 National Women Suffrage Association: Universal Suffrage - Local & federal Elections
👽 American Women Suffrage Movement: Idea of federal suffrage | State & local

Question 13

19th Amendment

Answer 13

Grants Universal suffrage to Women.

Question 14

Coxey’s Army

Answer 14

A Coxey’s unemployed steel worker takes a couple of friends to Washington telling the government to do something but get stopped before even arriving at Washington.

Question 15

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 15

Boxer’s officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. “Boxers” was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists”)

Question 16

Venezuela Boundary Dispute

Answer 16

When gold was discovered in the disputed territory, Great Britain sought to further extend its reach, claiming an additional 33,000 square miles west of the Schomburgk Line, an area where gold had been discovered. In 1876 Venezuela protested, broke diplomatic relations with Great Britain, and appealed to the United States for assistance, citing the Monroe Doctrine as justification for U.S. involvement. For the next 19 years Venezuela repeatedly petitioned for U.S. assistance, calling on its neighbor to the north to intervene by either sponsoring arbitration or intervening with force.

Question 17

U.S.S. Maine

Answer 17

The U.S. sends a battleship to Harvard to protect citizens but the ship explodes. “Yellow Journalism” is used to sell fake/exaggerated stories. (Sensationalism).

Question 18

United Fruit Company

Answer 18

The United Fruit Company was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit, grown on Central and South American plantations, and sold in the United States and Europe

Question 19

Platt Amendment

Answer 19

Reserve the United States a right to interfere in Cuban affairs. Allows them to intervene whenever they want.

Question 20

Emilio Aguinaldo

Answer 20

Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy QSC PLH was a Filipino revolutionary, politician, and a military leader who is officially recognized as the first and the youngest President of the Philippines and first president of a constitutional republic in Asia.

Question 21

Margaret Sanger

Answer 21

Sanger popularized the term “birth control”, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Question 22

Muller v. Oregon

Answer 22

Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate, lesser work-hours than allotted to men

Question 23

Initiative, Referendum, Recall

Answer 23

🐙 Initiative: Ability to Petition
🐙 Referendum: VOTE: Laws passed by civilians.
🐙 Recall: Ability to trigger new election in order to remove someone from office.

Question 24

” The Three C’s “

Answer 24

Theodore Roosevelt
🍄 Control of Cooperation: Promised he would break the TRUSTS
🍄 Conservation: Protect Wild Life
🍄 Consumer Protection: Allow you to return/replace products / get refunds.

Question 25

Sixteenth Amendment

Answer 25

Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Question 26

Alien Land Law

Answer 26

Passed in California: prohibit Japanese-Americans from selling or purchasing land in California.

Question 27

Federal Reserve Act of 1913

Answer 27

A system of banks scattered around the U.S.

1. Print nation’s money.
2. Control small banks and interests in the U.S.

Question 28

Communism

Answer 28

The major productive resources in a society—such as mines, factories, and farms—are owned by the public or the state, and wealth is divided among citizens equally or according to individual need. (UTOPIAN SOCIETY).

Question 29

Socialism

Answer 29

States control the economy. The means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Question 30

The Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 30

This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration.

Question 31

How the Other Half Lives

Answer 31

It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle class.

Question 32

Managerial Revolution

Answer 32

Control of corporations and banks has shifted from capitalists to managerial specialists, technocrats, and bureaucrats.