Unit 6 CH 16/17/18

Question 1

bill that did much to encourage settlers to move west; 160 acres of land were given to any settler who was an American citizen or
who had applied for citizenship, who was committed to farming the land for six months of the year, and who could pay the $10 registration fee for the land

Answer 1

Homestead Act

Question 2

battle that was the last large-scale
attempt by Native Americans to resist American settlement in the Great Plains
region. Federal soldiers opened fire on Native Americans, killing more than
200

Answer 2

Massacre at Wounded Knee

Question 3

act designed to break up Native American tribes by offering individual Native Americans land to be used for either farming or grazing

Answer 3

Dawes Act

Question 4

organization that united farmers at the statewide and regional levels; policy goals of this organization included more readily
available farm credits and federal regulation of the railroads

Answer 4

Farmers Alliances

Question 5

this party was designed to appeal to workers in all parts of the country. They favored a larger role of government in American society, a progressive income tax, and more direct methods of democracy.

Answer 5

Populist Party

Question 6

thesis suggesting that the innovations practiced by western settlers gradually became ingrained into the fabric of American society; democracy and self-improvement were also central to western expansion

Answer 6

Turner Thesis

Question 7

To encourage the building of “land-grant” colleges in Western territories that had already been granted statehood, hundreds of thousands of acres of land were given to state governments. This land could be sold by the states to pay for
these colleges.

Answer 7

Morrill Land Grant Act

Question 8

farms that usually produced only one or two crops on them. Produce from these farms was sold to the Eastern United States or abroad

Answer 8

bonanza farms

Question 9

The most prominent of the Southern blacks who went west was the 1879 group. Less than 20 percent of this group became successful farmers in the plains region

Answer 9

Exodusters

Question 10

bill offered land in the Northwest that was unsuitable for farming to “settlers” at very cheap prices

Answer 10

Timber & Stone Act

Question 11

General George Custer was sent to round up Sitting Bull and the Sioux. He and his force of over 200 men were all killed

Answer 11

Battle of Little Big Horn

Question 12

Ceremony conducted by Nez Perce warriors which were supposed to remove the whites from Native American territories, return the buffalo, and bring ancestors killed by the
whites back to life

Answer 12

Ghost Dances

Question 13

every dollar in circulation had to be backed by a similar amount of gold held by the federal government

Answer 13

gold standard

Question 14

party which supported getting more
paper money into circulation in the 1878 election

Answer 14

Greenback Party

Question 15

stated that the federal government could regulate interstate railway rates

Answer 15

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

Question 16

aimed to control the power of trusts and monopolies.

Answer 16

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Question 17

the belief that factories should be managed in a scientific manner, utilizing techniques that would increase the efficiency of the
individual workers and the factory process as a whole.

Answer 17

Taylorism

Question 18

strategy of gaining as much control over a single industry as possible, often by creating trusts and holding companies

Answer 18

horizontal integration

Question 19

strategy of gaining as much control over a single industry as possible by controlling the production, marketing, and distribution of the finished product.

Answer 19

vertical integration

Question 20

philosophy of Andrew Carnegie who believed that wealthy industrialists had an obligation to help local communities and philanthropic organizations.

Answer 20

Gospel of Wealth

Question 21

established in the 1880s, this was the major union of that decade. It was made up of unions of many industries and accepted unskilled workers.

Answer 21

Knights of Labor

Question 22

depiction of late nineteenth-century America that emphasizes a surface of great prosperity hiding problems of social inequality and cultural shallowness.

Answer 22

Gilded Age

Question 23

federal act that established a civil service
system at the federal level. For the first time, not all government jobs would be political appointments.

Answer 23

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Question 24

political machine that ran New York City Democratic and city politics beginning in 1870; became a model for other urban political machines in the late 1800s.

Answer 24

Tammany Hall

Question 25

in downtown Chicago. Police and militia forces arrived to break up a strike demonstration. At that moment, a bomb went off. Seven people died, and nearly
70 were wounded

Answer 25

Haymarket Square Riot

Question 26

poorer immigrants who arrived
from non-English-speaking areas, such as Eastern Europe, Russia, and Italy

Answer 26

new immigrants

Question 27

prohibited Asians who were not citizens from owning land anywhere in the state of California

Answer 27

Webb Alien Land Law