Standard 4 - Terms & Definitions for Brainscape

Question 1

Gave women the right to vote

Answer 1

19th Amendment

Question 2

Radical protester for women’s suffrage known for hunger strikes & national protests

Answer 2

Alice Paul

Question 3

Process of settling disputes between workers & management with a neutral third party - unions would rather do this than go on strike!

Answer 3

Arbitration

Question 4

Changing to become like another (For example, the Native Americans were told to assimilate into white culture)

Answer 4

Assimilation

Question 5

The process by which iron is turned into steel

Answer 5

Bessemer Process

Question 6

Much like the buffalo, the Native Americans lived off of them. Huge numbers of them were killed to make way for the RR.

Answer 6

Bison

Question 7

Bug that killed many cotton crops in the South. As a result, many AA’s moved north during the Great Migration

Answer 7

Boll Weevil

Question 8

The economic system where individuals own property and use it to gain wealth with little/no government involvement.

Answer 8

Capitalism

Question 9

Brought the Bessemer Process to the US, began US steel, and became one of the wealthiest men in the country.

Answer 9

Andrew Carnegie

Question 10

Argued for women’s suffrage at the state level. More moderate than Alice Paul.

Answer 10

Carrie Chapman Catt

Question 11

Law passed after the completion of the transcontinental RR stating that no new Chinese immigrants would be allowed into the US.

Answer 11

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 12

William Jennings Bryan’s speech suggesting that silver be added to the gold standard. Populists loved this!

Answer 12

Cross of Gold Speech

Question 13

Supreme Court case declaring that contracts would be upheld by the government.

Answer 13

Dartmouth v. Woodward

Question 14

Law giving land to Native Americans if they would assimilate into white culture for 25 years.

Answer 14

Dawes Act

Question 15

Native American ritual they believed would peacefully drive out the white men. The white men assumed they were preparing for war & attacked them.

Answer 15

Ghost Dance

Question 16

Supreme Court case declaring that the national government alone could regulate interstate commerce.

Answer 16

Gibbons v. Ogden

Question 17

Andrew Carnegie’s philosophy that the wealthy had a responsibility to use their $$ to help those less fortunate.

Answer 17

Gospel of Wealth

Question 18

Period in the late 1800’s-early 1900’s when many AA’s moved from the south to the north.

Answer 18

Great Migration

Question 19

Law giving land in the west away for free to anyone who would build a home on that land.

Answer 19

Homestead Act

Question 20

Author of “Rags to Riches” stories.

Answer 20

Horatio Alger

Question 21

Business practice when one person buys up all of one type of business. (Like a monopoly)

Answer 21

Horizontal Integration

Question 22

Federal law regulating the cost of shipping between states. It was passed to help farmers after the Granger laws were overturned by the Supreme Court.

Answer 22

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 23

Founded Hull House to teach immigrants how to assimilate into the US.

Answer 23

Jane Addams

Question 24

The belief that government should keep its hands entirely off of the economy.

Answer 24

Laissez-faire capitalism

Question 25

Journalists who wrote & published photos to make people see the difficulties of urban life in the late 1800’s. (Upton Sinclair would be one example)

Answer 25

Muckrakers

Question 26

The belief that the US should be made up primarily of whites who descended from England. These people did NOT want more immigration into the US.

Answer 26

Nativism

Question 27

Law giving land to the railroads for the purpose of completing a transcontinental RR.

Answer 27

Pacific Railway Act

Question 28

Organizations in major cities designed to get votes for particular parties or candidates by helping specific groups - often immigrants.

Answer 28

Political Machines

Question 29

Political group representing the farmers that pushed for the introduction of silver to the gold standard to cause inflation.

Answer 29

Populists

Question 30

Political group that wanted the government to intervene in the issues caused by the rapid growth of cities in the late 1800’s.

Answer 30

Progressives

Question 31

Strike caused when a RR company cut worker pay but didn’t decrease the rent in their company housing.

Answer 31

Pullman Strike

Question 32

First strike in which the army was called to force strikers into going back to work.

Answer 32

Railway Strike of 1877

Question 33

Owner of the Standard Oil Trust and one of the wealthiest men in American history.

Answer 33

John D. Rockefeller

Question 34

Deragatory term for people who work during a strike.

Answer 34

Scabs

Question 35

Law making it illegal for a Trust to own all of one type of company. (For example, one company couldn’t own all the oil companies in the US)

Answer 35

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 36

The belief that “survival of the fittest” should be applied to modern society.

Answer 36

Social Darwinism

Question 37

Women who protested for the right to vote.

Answer 37

Suffragettes

Question 38

Local groups organized by farmers so they could discuss how to best address their needs & concerns.

Answer 38

The Grange

Question 39

A company that owns other companies.

Answer 39

Trust

Question 40

Organizations of workers pushing for shorter hours, better pay, and better working conditions.

Answer 40

Unions

Question 41

Muckraker author of the Jungle who drew attention to the problems in the meat packing industry

Answer 41

Upton Sinclair

Question 42

Populist/Democrat presidential candidate who gave the “Cross of Gold” speech.

Answer 42

William Jennings Bryan

Question 43

Site where Native Americans attempted to surrender, but were massacred by the Army.

Answer 43

Wounded Knee

Question 44

Contracts signed by workers promising that they will not join a union

Answer 44

Yellow Dog Contracts

Question 45

Legalized Income Tax

Answer 45

16th Amendment

Question 46

Allowed the direct election of US Senators by the people.

Answer 46

17th Amendment

Question 47

Term used to favorably describe the wealthy industrial leaders of the late 1800’s.

Answer 47

Captain of Industry

Question 48

Term used to unfavorably describe the wealthy industrial leaders of the late 1800’s.

Answer 48

Robber Baron