Unit 6 Key Terms Flashcards
A Century of Dishonor
- written by Helen Hunt Jackson in 1881 to expose the atrocities the United States committed against Native Americans in the 19th century
Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the telephone
American Federation of Labor
- 1886; founded by Samuel Gompers; sought better wages, hrs, working conditions; skilled laborers, arose out of dissatisfaction with the Knights of Labor, rejected socialist and communist ideas, non-violent.
Andrew Carnegie
A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.
Atlanta Compromise
Argument put forward by Booker T. Washington that African-Americans should not focus on civil rights or social equality but concentrate on economic self-improvement to proved their worth and they would gradually be accepted
- white people liked it
Benjamin Harrison
- 23rd president
- Bad economic choices such as the McKinley Tariff
- Sherman Antitrust Act signed by him
Billion Dollar Congress
- Republican Congress of 1890.
- Gave pensions to Civil War veterans, increased government silver purchases, and passed McKinley Tariff Act of 1890.
- First billion dollar budget.
- Sherman Antitrust Act
Booker T. Washington
- Prominent African-American Activist born into slavery
- Wanted African Americans to accept racial inequality and segregation in return for economic opportunities
- Wanted to prove african americans were useful to the nation
- more gradual
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
- A show made by William Frederick Cody that reenacted famous frontier events and life in the West
- justified American cause to take territory;
- shaped the perceptions of the West in favor of Americans removing Native Indians
Captains of Industry
- Owners and managers of large industrial enterprises who wielded extraordinary political and economic power
- Rockefeller, Carnegie, J.P Morgan
Carlisle Indian School
- A pennsylvania School for NAtive American children
- Goal was to assimilate them into euro/american life
- very controversial because it separated kids from their family and it was often pressured
Chester A. Arthur
- 21st president after Andrew Garfield’s Assassination
- Civil reforms such as the Pendelton Civil Service Reform that established a merit-based system (Done because many thought the spoils system caused Garfield’s death)
Chinese Exclusion Act
(1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while
- Chinese could not become citizens as well
- Lots of anti-Chinese sentiments at the time because they thought they were taking their jobs
Congress of Industrial Organization
- A federation of labor union for all unskilled workers. It provided a national labor union for unskilled workers, unlike the AFL, which limited itself to skilled workers.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
- A railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York. He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads safer and more economical.
Curtis Act
- Dissolved the Indian Territory and abolished tribal governments
- Attempt to speed up the process of native American assimilation
Dawes Severalty Act
- The act passed with the intent to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream of American life
- Wanted to split up the land of tribes and give it to individual members to encourage private ownership and farming
Denis Kearney
- Founded the Workingman’s party that fought for workers rights
- He led strikes against imported Chinese Workers and supported anti-Chinese sentiment.
Eugene V. Debs
- Head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman strike; he was imprisoned along with his associates for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking. While in prison, he read Socialist literature and emerged as a Socialist leader in America.
Frederick Jackson Turner
- American historian most know for his “frontier thesis”
- Would later change his stance away from the frontier thesis but it was too popular
Frontier Thesis
- Created by Frederick Jackson Turner
- Argued that the western frontier was what shaped American identity
- Said America was its own unique country away from European influence
- Gave explanations for American excellency
Gentlemen’s Agreement
1907 agreement between the United States and Japan that restricted Japanese immigration
- Unofficial but informal understandings between the two countries
- School segregation
Gilded Age
- Late 1800s to Early 1900s
- Luxury for the top percent and extreme poverty for the poor
- Industrialization and economic growth
- Lots of political corruption like in the railroad
- Lots of discrmination
