Period 6 Test Review Terms

Question 1

Free Enterprise System

Answer 1

Government places few restrictions on business activities

Question 2

Nativism

Answer 2

Native- born residents over immigrants

Question 3

Populism

Answer 3

Appeal to ordinary people who feel disregarded by elite groups

Question 4

Assimilation

Answer 4

Becoming similar to others by losing your culture

Question 5

Vertical Integration

Answer 5

Building cities upward

Question 6

Horizontal Integration

Answer 6

Spreading out of cities

Question 7

Monopolies

Answer 7

Market structure that consists of only one dominant seller/producer

Question 8

Trusts

Answer 8

Relationship between one who manages property and one who receives benefits from property

Question 9

Segregation

Answer 9

Setting someone apart from others

Question 10

New South

Answer 10

American South after the civil war with an attractive future and growing economy

Question 11

Redeemers

Answer 11

Southern democrats who wanted regain political power and white supremacy

Question 12

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 12

Ruled “separate but equal” was constitutional which lead to Jim Crow laws

Question 13

Industrialization

Answer 13

Development of industries in a country on a wide scale

Question 14

Social Gospel

Answer 14

Emphasize how Jesus’s teachings could end problems caused by “Gilded age” Capitalism

Question 15

Social Darwinism

Answer 15

Idea that some individuals are just better than others ( used to justify racism and social inequality)

Question 16

Gospel of Wealth

Answer 16

That access to wealth should benefit society

Question 17

Expansion

Answer 17

Enlargement/ development

Question 18

“Free Silver”

Answer 18

Unlimited coinage of silver

Question 19

Labor Unions

Answer 19

Negotiate for better workers rights, better pay, working conditions and better benefits

Question 20

Knights of Labor

Answer 20

Members were skilled and unskilled labor, wanted shorter work days, equal pay and end child labor (opposite of American federation of Labor)

Question 21

American Federation of Labor

Answer 21

Only wanted skilled white craftsmen in the cities (opposite of Knights of Labor)

Question 22

Freedmen

Answer 22

Former slaves emancipated after the Civil war by the Emancipation Proclamation

Question 23

Gilded

Answer 23

Period of economic boom after the Civil War