Test 4 (Industrial Revolution) Flashcards

1
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2 resources of revolution

A

Oil

Steel

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2
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Who used steam engines to drill for oil?

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Edwin Drake

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3
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Invented Direct Current electricity

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Thomas Edison (also light bulb)

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4
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Invented typewriter

A

Christopher Sholes

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5
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what brought new workers?

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Immigration

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6
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What increased population density

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Immigration

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7
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What increased trade across cities

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Railroads

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8
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Who invented compressed air brakes

Operated an AC power plant

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George Westinghouse

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9
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Describe the Credit Mobilier Scandal

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Union Pacific Railroad formed the Credit Mobilier Contatrunction company bribed congressmen with shares to approve federal subsidies for cost of construction

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10
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Union of farmers that fought railroads to lower shipping prices

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The Grange

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11
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The Interstate Commerce Act

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Government gains more control of railroads

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12
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Laissez-faire

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Let the people do as they chose
Less government regulations
Competition at free market

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13
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Used vertical integration and owned almost entire steel industry

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Andrew Carnegie

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14
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Owned standard oil. Monopoly. Formed trust. Used horizontal integration

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John D Rockefeller

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15
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Trust

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Several companies turn stock into one group of trustees who work as one mega company

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16
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Three negative aspects of big businesses

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Too much power in hands of too few men
Once monopoly formed-prices skyrocket
Mistreated workers

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17
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Oligarchy

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Too much power in hands of too few

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18
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3 causes of second industrial revolution

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Large supply of natural resources
New inventions
Growing cities

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19
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What did Samuel Gompers do?

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Formed American Federation of Labor

A union that used strikes and collective bargaining

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20
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What is collective bargaining?

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Negotiations between workers and business owners

21
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Who is a German Philosopher that lived in England and argues against capitalism?

22
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Who believed that the ____(haves) benifitted from capitalism while the ____ (Have nots) suffered?

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Karl Marx
Bourgeoisie
Proletariat

23
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Marxism used what two communism principles?

A

No individual ownership of property

Property and means of production are owned by a community

24
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What move my preached salvation through helping the poor?

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Social Gospel Movement

25
Populism is often in contrast to what group?
Elite upper class
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In 1890 Farmers and workers unite to fight mega-trust companies. They call themselves.... With a....
Populist party | Anti-trust agenda
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____ vs ____ Smallest popular vote in US history Won by___
Garfield (R) vs. Hancock (D) | 2000
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Garfield was assassinated ____ after being elected
200 days
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___ vs____ Who was popular? Who wins electoral?-real winner
Harrison (R) vs Grover Cleveland (D) Grover Cleveland won popular Harrison won electoral- real winner
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Known as "an effort to cure American society if the ills developed during the industrial revolution
Progressive Movement
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Rejected social Darwinism Man is capable of improving society Government should have a role in improving society Government corruption should be removed Government should include people more directly
Progressives
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What was "The Jungle" about and who wrote it
Uptown Sinclair | Exposed labor abuses in meat packing industry and disgusting conditions
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Roosevelt took the place of ___ because he was assassinated by___
McKinley (Leon Cz...)
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Used bully pulpit and wanted all to have a Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt
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Roosevelt believed in balancing the interests of what three people
Business, consumer, labor
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Trust busters
Break up monopolies like JP Morgan and railroad barons for violating Anti-trust act
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We draw the line at___ not wealth
Misconduct
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Gives voters right to propose laws
Initiative
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Gives voters right to vote on "proposed laws" (see other card)
Referendum
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Gives voters right to force politics to be re-elected
Recall
41
Name 16-21 amendments
16- Legalized income tax 17- popular election of Senators 18- prohibition 19- women's suffrage 20- beginning and ending of presidential terms clarified (21- prohibition repealed)- not part of progressive amendments
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First black to graduate from Harvard. Believed blacks should be politically active. Supported civil rights. Had an interest in Africa. Helped to unify black leaders
Web DuBois
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NAWSA
National American women's suffrage association
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Strong leader of women's suffrage
Susan B Anthony
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Women's suffrage legalized
June 4 1919
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Speakeasy
Illegal liquor club
47
Prohibition was followed by
Increased crime organization
48
Naturalist and writer convinced Roosevelt to start parks and rec department
John Muir
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Roosevelt pushed for ___
Conservation of land