Unit 6

Question 1

companies in separate states, but belonging to one corporation Banking

Answer 1

Trusts

Question 2

companies in separate states, but belonging to one corporation Banking

Answer 2

Holding Company

Question 3

Economic liberalism that believes in unrestricted private enterprise and no government interference in the economy

Answer 3

laissez-faire

Question 4

nickname for a technologically advanced and industrialized South that many in the South coveted, but didn’t end up really happening

Answer 4

“New South”

Question 5

party formed in 1892 made up of discontented farmers whose platform demanded inflation through coinage of silver and gold (16:1), graduated income tax, gvmt ownership of railroads/telegraph/telephone, direct election of senators, one-term limit of presidency, adoption of referendum, shorter workday, and immigration restriction. Nominated James Weaver for president.

Answer 5

People’s (Populist) Party

Question 6

Native Americans were expected to take on the American culture, become “more American”

Answer 6

Assimilation

Question 7

Goal to assimilate immigrants into the American society.

Answer 7

“Americanization”

Question 8

nickname for period after Civil War through the turn of the century that refers to the success of the rich due to industrialization

Answer 8

Gilded Age

Question 9

The application of ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion

Answer 9

Social Darwinism

Question 10

idea from Carnegie that states that the wealthy have to use their money for charitable reasons.

Answer 10

Gospel of Wealth

Question 11

favored these tariffs because they protected U.S. businesses from foreign competition

Answer 11

McKinley Tariff 1890

Question 12

founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women’s Intenational League for Peace and Freedom. Also founded the Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes

Answer 12

Jane Addams

Question 13

1896 court case that validated the South’s segreationalist social order, ruling “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional under the “equal protection” clause of the 14th Amendment.

Answer 13

Plessy v. Ferguson