Unit 9 Review Flashcards
What did the Homestead Act grant?
160 acres of land
Who harnessed electricity?
Thomas Edison
What is the name for a hands off economy?
Laissez Faire
What are Vaqueros?
Mexican Cowboys
What ended the cowboys?
Barb wire
Which group was targeted for immigration restriction?
The Chinese
What was the final Indian battle?
Wounded Knee
What helped create the national market?
The Railroad
What was Angel Island?
An immigration station
Who was an inventor and entrepreneur?
Ford
What is another name for corporate farming?
Bonanza
What city was the meat packing capital?
Chicago
What resulted from cheap money?
Inflation
What is the term for ruthless businessmen?
Robber Barons
What was the Long Drive?
The cowboy route taken to bring cattle to the railroads.
What is vertical integration?
When a company controls all manufacturing steps
What was the 1896 election issue?
The type of currency to be used
Who won the 1896 election?
McKinley
What happened because of underground mining?
Cave ins and fires
What is the melting pot?
Blending of cultures
What is Nativism?
When the natives are hostile to immigrants
Who is associated with standard oil?
Rockefeller
What are African American cowboys?
Exodusters
What is populism?
A movement among farmers
What problems did farmers face at the Turn of the Century? (4)
- Price of crop drops
- Railroad monopolies
- Foreclosures on farms
- Greenback Issue
List the organizations farmers were apart of (3):
Granges: Local Farmers
Farmer Alliances: Regional Farmers
Populist Party: National Farmers
What did the Republicans (Bankers) believe in? (3)
- Gold currency - Less $$ in circulation
- Loans = more valuable and stable
- Deflation: Prices drop, value of $$ rises
What did the Democrats (Farmers) believe in? (3)
- Bimetallism - More $$ in circulation
- Products sold at higher prices
- Prices rise, value of $$ drop
What natural resources causes the rise of an industrial economy? (3)
Coal, oil, and iron ore
What were the power sources for natural resources? (3)
Railroads, machines, and cars
Who created steel in England?
Henry Bessemer
What were the 2 sources of labor supply?
- Immigrants from Europe and Asia
- Internal migration from rural areas
Who created steel in the US?
Andrew Carnegie
Who created railroads?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
What is horizontal integration?
One company buys out other companies of the same industry
What is Social Darwinism?
Natural selection and the strongest business survive; allows for the haves and have nots
What factors encourage the Western Settlement after the war? (3)
- New Life from War
- New Technologies
- Role of gov.
US Military was used to clear the way for settlement:
Indian Policy
What happened after the Dawes act was passed?
“Indian Schools” opened throughout the country
How were old and new immigrants similar? (4)
- Experienced Nativism
- Worked toughest jobs
- Passed through an immigration station
- Lived in cities
- Came before civil war
- Wanted land
- Protestants
- From N/W Europe
- Blended easily
Old Immigrants
- Came after civil war
- Came to escape persecution/find jobs
- Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist
- From S/E Europe and Asia
- Discriminated and segregated
New Immigrants
Prohibited all Chinese immigration except for students, teachers, merchants, and gov. officials:
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Limited the # of immigrants from a country to 2% of those nationalities living in the US in 1890. Targeted S/E Europe and Asia:
Immigration Restriction ct of 1921
Why did immigrants support political machines?
They provided jobs and citizenship
List the issues with the Political Machines (4):
- Corrupt
- Scandalous
- Tweed Ring
- Prompted Reform
A religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century; led to the creation of settlement houses:
Social Gospel
Which candidate was pro-business?
William McKinley
Which candidate was pro-farmer?
William Jennings Bryan
People that commanded enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state:
Political Machines
