us history Flashcards
George Washington Plunkett
City Boss
Herbert Spencer
Race Hierarchy
Jane Addams
Feminist; Hull Houses to house and assimilate women
The New South
Henry Grady - South industrializes instead of agriculture
Plessy V Ferguson
“Separate but equal”
Accomodation Theory
Booker T washington - give blacks opportunities to get educated
Atlantic Compromise
Booker T Washington - asks businesses to hire black workers
Ida Wells
Wrote about lynching
Eastern Means V Frontier Thesis
Land of opportunity, people want to move west
Homestead Act
Govt give away land for free if u stay for 5 years
Frontier Thesis (Turnerian)
Frontiers “created America”
Dawes Act
“Indian Question” - Take Indian land, develop then turn Indians into Citizens. Also build schools
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Steamboat, RailRoad company owner, one of first big businesses
Pacific Railway Act
Build Transcontinental railroads
Andrew Carnegie
Worked up ladder, built steel company, Bessemer Process, Exploits panics, monopoly