Midterm

Question 1

The idea in vented by English philosopher Herbert Spencer that people are subject to natural selection, endorsed by John Fisk of Harvard and William Graham Sumner of Yale

Answer 1

Social Darwinism

Question 2

Extremely rich oil baron, said “God gave me my money”

Answer 2

John D Rockefeller

Question 3

Occurred in 1886 while workers were protesting for 8 hour workdays

Answer 3

The Haymarket Riot

Question 4

First major labor organization for workers rights

Answer 4

The Knights of Labor

Question 5

Labor Leader who led the Knights of Labor

Answer 5

Terence V. Powderly

Question 6

The American Steelmaster, a rags to riches story

Answer 6

Andrew Carnegie

Question 7

John D Rockefeller’s trust giving him a monopoly on the oil industry

Answer 7

Standard Oil Trust

Question 8

Taking pride in one’s own work giving craftsmen the power in production

Answer 8

Craftsmanship Ethic

Question 9

Author of The Jungle and socialist

Answer 9

Upton Sinclair

Question 10

When similar companies or industries merge

Answer 10

Horizontal Integration

Question 11

A hands-off approach to law or government

Answer 11

Laissez Faire

Question 12

Sci-fi novel about the future of America if it gave up socialism

Answer 12

Looking Backward

Question 13

Major critic of social Darwinism, promoted compassion to others

Answer 13

Lester Frank Ward

Question 14

Author of the theory of leisure class, the opposite of social Darwinism

Answer 14

Thorstein Veblen

Question 15

Economy is controlled for the benefit of all by a natural aristocracy,
Government should confine itself to police activity that protects private property and maintain order,
Slums and poverty are the result of economic struggle, government should not interfere

Answer 15

Gospel of Wealth

Question 16

The US army pulls out of the south so that Hayes can be president

Answer 16

Compromise of 1877

Question 17

Promoted working and waiting for blacks

Answer 17

Booker T Washington

Question 18

Working the same land with no safety net, often ending in debt

Answer 18

Sharecropping

Question 19

Case that ruled in favor of separate but equal

Answer 19

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 20

Case that allowed poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses

Answer 20

Williams v. Mississippi

Question 21

A clause used to allow white people to bypass literacy tests

Answer 21

Grandfather Clause

Question 22

A tax that had to be paid in order to vote

Answer 22

Poll Taxes

Question 23

Laws to promote segregation and other racist policies

Answer 23

Jim Crow Laws

Question 24

A speech by Booker T Washington stating that education for African Americans is more important than political rights

Answer 24

The Atlanta Compromise

Question 25

Southern Governments run by white people

Answer 25

Redeemer Governments

Question 26

The amendment allowing women to vote, passed in 1920

Answer 26

The 19th Amendment

Question 27

One of the activists that helped to organize the Seneca Falls Convention (L)

Answer 27

Lucretia Mott

Question 28

One of the activists that helped to organize the Seneca Falls Convention (E)

Answer 28

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 29

This industrial disaster killed 146 people, mostly women

Answer 29

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Question 30

Laws stating that a wife’s property became her husband’s and so did she herself

Answer 30

Coverture

Question 31

Convention in 1848 where a petition was signed demanding women get the right to vote

Answer 31

Seneca Falls Convention

Question 32

Suffragist movement founded in Chicago in 1920

Answer 32

League of Women Voters

Question 33

Claimed to let black people get their votes, signed at Seneca Falls

Answer 33

Fredrick Douglass

Question 34

This Amendment gave Blacks the right to vote

Answer 34

The 15th Amendment

Question 35

Organizer of the WCTU

Answer 35

Francis Willard

Question 36

Activist organization founded in Evanston Illinois with women throughout the country who supported the HPB

Answer 36

The WCTU

Question 37

A law that limited the number of immigrants from any country in 1924 that limited immigrants to 2% of the population in 1890

Answer 37

The National Origins Act

Question 38

Northern politicians that went to the south to gain political office

Answer 38

Carpetbaggers

Question 39

A terrorist group targeting freed or escaped slaves

Answer 39

The Klu Klux Klan

Question 40

19th president who agreed to the compromise of 1877, known as Rutherfraud

Answer 40

Rutherford B Hayes