Period 6 selected terms

Question 1

Cross of Gold Speech

Answer 1

Presidential candidate Bryan’s campaign speech-supported ‘free silver’

Question 2

Economies of scale

Answer 2

saving in costs because of increased production

Question 3

ghost dance

Answer 3

Native American movement-belief that the white settlers would disapear and the Native way of life would begin again-Buffalo & land would return

Question 4

Gospel of Wealth

Answer 4

written by Carnegie-encouraged Philanthopy and not charity

Question 5

The New South

Answer 5

post-civil war/reconstruction era-hope for industrial development in the South that matched the North

Question 6

Referendum

Answer 6

direct vote for citizens

Question 7

Social Gospel

Answer 7

Christian ethics to improve society-economic inequality, poverty/labor problems, schools, pollution…

Question 8

Trusts

Answer 8

one person holds property and uses it for benefit of another person-large business monopolies

Question 9

Political bosses

Answer 9

leader of political machines-help citizens in exchange for votes

Question 10

the gold/silver standard

Answer 10

North wanted money backed up by gold, farmers want more money available (in debt-inflation) in silver coins

Question 11

Haymarket Incident

Answer 11

riot of laborers-bombing causes massacre

Question 12

Homestead Strike

Answer 12

workers for Carnegie steel co. strike-co. owners shut down with violence-workers replaced

Question 13

Pullman Strike

Answer 13

railroad workers strike because co. decreases wages but keeps other costs high-railroad workers across country join-American Railway Union

Question 14

Wounded Knee Massacre

Answer 14

massacre of Lakota Sioux after Ghost dance movement

Question 15

Booker T. Washington

Answer 15

supported Black Americans focusing on educating themselves & creating own resources in discriminatory world

Question 16

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 16

19th President-began Civil Rights reform after Reconstruction

Question 17

Chief Joseph

Answer 17

Native American leader of Nez Perce tribe-advocate for rights to homeland

Question 18

Eugene V. Debs

Answer 18

founding member of Industrial Workers of the World-Socialist party member

Question 19

Populist Party

Answer 19

advocated for government regulation-against Capitalist ideas, support workers rights, farmers…

Question 20

Ida Wells-Barnett

Answer 20

civil rights activist & journalist

Question 21

William McKinley

Answer 21

24th president-Republican-allied with Big Business

Question 22

Hawaii

Answer 22

US overthrows Hawaiian gov to gain acces to port & annexes in 1898

Question 23

Land-grant colleges

Answer 23

designated to recieve benefits of Morrill Acts

Question 24

Philippines

Answer 24

Spain ceded to US after Spanish-American War (Treaty of Paris)-US colonized until give Independence

Question 25

Civil rights cases

Answer 25

Supreme Court held 13th and 14th amendments did not allow Congress to outlaw racial discrimination

Question 26

Dawes Act

Answer 26

break up reservation land instead of having different tribes on same territory

Question 27

Interstate Commerce Act

Answer 27

first federal gov regulatory act-regulate RR industry after monopolized

Question 28

Open Door Policy

Answer 28

US policy-equal trade in China with other Western powers

Question 29

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 29

federal gov can dissolve trusts-regulate big business a little