Standard 4 - Terms & Definitions for Brainscape Flashcards

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Amendment giving women the right to vote

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19th Amendment

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Leader of the women’s suffrage movement who used protests and hunger strikes to gain attention for the movement.

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Alice Paul

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3
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Negotiation between unions and management

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Arbitration

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4
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Forcing one group (Indians) to take on cultural characteristics of another group (white men)

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Assimilation

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5
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Carnegie’s process used to turn iron into steel

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Bessemer Process

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Indians depended on them to survive, but RR companies hired men to kill them because they blocked RR track

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Bison

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Destroyed many crops in the south - Many AA sharecroppers moved north

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Boll Weevil

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Economic system with private ownership of property that can be used to make a profit

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Capitalism

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US Steel - Introduced the Bessemer Process to the US - Believed in the Gospel of Wealth

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Carnegie

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10
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Leader of the women’s sufffrage movement who believed that the right to vote for women should be won at the state level

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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Law preventing Chinese from coming into the US - Passed after the Chinese helped complete the transcontinental RR

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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12
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Speech given by William Jennings Bryan encouraging silver to be added to the $$ supply - Connected to the Populist movement

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Cross of Gold Speech

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13
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Case where the government first recognizes contracts as binding

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Dartmouth v. Woodward

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14
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Law granting Indians large amounts of land if they behaved like “Good white citizens” for 25 years

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Dawes Act

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15
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Native American ceremony they believed would rid their land of the white men

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Ghost Dance

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16
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Case determining that the federal government can control interstate commerce

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Gibbons v. Ogden

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17
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Carnegie believed that it was the duty of the rich to give of their wealth to help the poor

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Gospel of Wealth

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18
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Many AA’s moved from the south to the north at the end of the 1800’s because of bad crops, Jim Crow, etc.

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Great Migration

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19
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Law granting land to settlers promising to build a home on it

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Homestead Act

20
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Author who wrote “rags to riches” stories

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Horatio Alger

21
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Buying all of one kind of industry (ex. All car producers)

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Horizontal Integration

22
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Wars fought to remove Indians from their lands in the west

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Indian Wars

23
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Law passed by Congress to limit prices RR’s could charge farmers to transport their crops - severely limited by the Supreme Court

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Interstate Commerce Act

24
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Founder of “Hull House”, which taught skills to immigrants to help them integrate into American society

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Jane Addams

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Idea that government should keep its hands off the economy
Laissez-faire capitalism
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Journalists in the early 1900's who reported on social problems & political corruption
Muckrakers
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Belief that immigrants are bad and should be kept out of the US
Nativism
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Congressional act giving land to RR companies in order to complete the transcontinental RR
Pacific Railway Act
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Political organizations in big cities that helped immigrants in order to gain power
Political Machines
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Political organization made up of farmers & others - wanted silver added to the money supply (William Jennings Bryan / Cross of Gold)
Populists
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Overproduction drove down prices
Problem of Farmers
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Group that wanted the government to deal with problems of crime, poverty, sanitation, etc.
Progressives
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RR strike - the military was called out & many were arrested - the Sherman Anti-Trust act was used to prosecute strikers
Pullman Strike
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First time the military was called to put down a strike
Railway Strike of 1877
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Standard Oil - Organized trusts & used many tricks to control the oil market
Rockefeller
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Derogatory term for people who work during a strike
Scabs
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Law passed to break up trusts - eventually used to break up unions instead
Sherman Antitrust Act
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Belief that survival of the fittest should apply to society (if people are poor, they should be allowed to die off)
Social Darwinism
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Women who campaigned for the right to vote in the late 1800's and early 1900's
Suffragettes
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Organization created to address the concerns of farmers
The Grange
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Corporation made up of many corporations
Trust
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Shorter hours, better pay, better working conditions
Union Goals
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Organization made up of workers to address their problems
Unions
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Muckraker journalist best known for writing "The Jungle", which was a book about lax standards in the meat industry
Upton Sinclair
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Populist presidential candidate who gave the "Cross of Gold" speech - Ran for President against McKinley - lost; He later prosecuted the Scopes monkey trial
William Jennings Bryan
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Site where many Native Americans were massacred after surrendering to the military.
Wounded Knee
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Contract where workers promise not to join unions
Yellow Dog Contracts