Standard 4 - Terms & Definitions for Brainscape

Question 1

Amendment giving women the right to vote

Answer 1

19th Amendment

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Alice Paul

Question 3

Negotiation between unions and management

Answer 3

Arbitration

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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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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

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Boll Weevil

Question 8

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

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Capitalism

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Carnegie

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Carrie Chapman Catt

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Cross of Gold Speech

Question 13

Case where the government first recognizes contracts as binding

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Dartmouth v. Woodward

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Dawes Act

Question 15

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

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Ghost Dance

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Case determining that the federal government can control interstate commerce

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Gibbons v. Ogden

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

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Homestead Act

Question 20

Author who wrote “rags to riches” stories

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Horatio Alger

Question 21

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

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Horizontal Integration

Question 22

Wars fought to remove Indians from their lands in the west

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Indian Wars

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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

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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

Question 25

Idea that government should keep its hands off the economy

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Laissez-faire capitalism

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Journalists in the early 1900’s who reported on social problems & political corruption

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Muckrakers

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Belief that immigrants are bad and should be kept out of the US

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Nativism

Question 28

Congressional act giving land to RR companies in order to complete the transcontinental RR

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Pacific Railway Act

Question 29

Political organizations in big cities that helped immigrants in order to gain power

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Political Machines

Question 30

Political organization made up of farmers & others - wanted silver added to the money supply (William Jennings Bryan / Cross of Gold)

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Populists

Question 31

Overproduction drove down prices

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Problem of Farmers

Question 32

Group that wanted the government to deal with problems of crime, poverty, sanitation, etc.

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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

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Pullman Strike

Question 34

First time the military was called to put down a strike

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Railway Strike of 1877

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Standard Oil - Organized trusts & used many tricks to control the oil market

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Rockefeller

Question 36

Derogatory term for people who work during a strike

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Scabs

Question 37

Law passed to break up trusts - eventually used to break up unions instead

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Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 38

Belief that survival of the fittest should apply to society (if people are poor, they should be allowed to die off)

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Social Darwinism

Question 39

Women who campaigned for the right to vote in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s

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Suffragettes

Question 40

Organization created to address the concerns of farmers

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The Grange

Question 41

Corporation made up of many corporations

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Trust

Question 42

Shorter hours, better pay, better working conditions

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Union Goals

Question 43

Organization made up of workers to address their problems

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Unions

Question 44

Muckraker journalist best known for writing “The Jungle”, which was a book about lax standards in the meat industry

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Upton Sinclair

Question 45

Populist presidential candidate who gave the “Cross of Gold” speech - Ran for President against McKinley - lost; He later prosecuted the Scopes monkey trial

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William Jennings Bryan

Question 46

Site where many Native Americans were massacred after surrendering to the military.

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Wounded Knee

Question 47

Contract where workers promise not to join unions

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Yellow Dog Contracts