US History Clios Notes 2 Review

Question 1

What religious group moved westward due to religious prosecution?

Answer 1

Mormons

Question 2

Who was the founder of the Mormon faith (assassinated)?

Answer 2

Joseph Smith

Question 3

What was the reformist group against railroad fees?

Answer 3

Grangers

Question 4

Who was the populists democratic cantidate?

Answer 4

William Jennings Bryan

Question 5

What speech argued for the silver standard?

Answer 5

Cross of Gold

Question 6

What four big movements made the U.S. and economic power?

Answer 6

Innovation, Industrialization, Immigration, and Urbanization

Question 7

Capitalist economy, Lais Faire governmental policies, natural resource wealth and new businesses forms called what encouraged post civil war industrialization

Answer 7

Four Factors

Question 8

What was an easier way of making steel

Answer 8

Bessemer Process

Question 9

What economic policy mean minimal government influence

Answer 9

Laissez faire

Question 10

What are some major labor unions not supported by the government

Answer 10

Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, and the International Workers of the World

Question 11

Made his fortune in steel

Answer 11

Andrew Carnigie

Question 12

Made his fortune in oil

Answer 12

John D Rockefeller

Question 13

Made his fortune in finance

Answer 13

J. P. Morgan

Question 14

Made his fortune in railroads

Answer 14

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question 15

Business models designed for limiting business competition

Answer 15

Cartels and Trusts

Question 16

What is the name of the era where wealth was trapped in the hyper upper class

Answer 16

Gilded Age

Question 17

Where a business acquires all of the steps required in the production process

Answer 17

Vertical Integration

Question 18

Where businesses acquire all other businesses in a single industry

Answer 18

Horizontal Integration

Question 19

The availability of jobs was a ______ and religious prosecution and wars where a _____

Answer 19

Push factor and pull factor for immigration

Question 20

What are organized groups made for controlling politics

Answer 20

Political Machines

Question 21

What movement was initiated to teach immigrants English and the importance of voting

Answer 21

Americanization Movements

Question 22

What organization promotes youth development and community

Answer 22

YMCA

Question 23

Housing given to immigrants to aid their immigration

Answer 23

Settlement Houses

Question 24

Crusading journalists and academics

Answer 24

Muckrackers

Question 25

Journalist who exposed poverty

Answer 25

Jacob Riis

Question 26

Where poverty exposing photos where published

Answer 26

“How the Other Half Lives”

Question 27

Who exposed the meat industry for unsanitary practices

Answer 27

Upton Sinclair

Question 28

Where meat industry exposing works where published

Answer 28

“The Jungle”

Question 29

Who exposed the abuses of urban political machines

Answer 29

Lincoln Steffens

Question 30

Where the abuse of urban political machine exposing works where published

Answer 30

“A History of the Standard Oil Company”

Question 31

Who where two members of the clergy whom were social darwinists

Answer 31

Dwight L. Moody and Billy Sunday

Question 32

What movement applied Christian ethics to social issues

Answer 32

Social Gospel

Question 33

Who were some noteworthy governers

Answer 33

Hiram Johnson of California, Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin

Question 34

Name 17 national reforms pushed by progressives

Answer 34

child labor laws,
worker’s compensation,
the 8 hour work day,
safer working conditions,
the Meat Inspection Act,
the Pure Food and Drug Act,
the income tax (16th Amendment),
the direct election of senators (17th Amendment),
the initiative (citizen sponsored laws),
referendum (citizens striking down existing laws),
recall (citizens voting out bad political leaders),
city commission and city council forms of municipal government (to take power out of the hands of the political machined and place it in the hands of elected officials),
women’s suffrage—right the vote (19th Amendment),
National Parks system,
the graduated federal income tax,
the federal reserve bank.

Question 35

What African American leader said that blacks should stay our of politics and that they should instead try to move up the economic ladder

Answer 35

Brooker T. Washington

Question 36

Brooker T. Washington anti African Americans in politics speech

Answer 36

Atlanta Compromise

Question 37

Who criticized Brooker T. Washington’s ideas, and instead advocated for blacks engaging in politics

Answer 37

W.E.B. Dubois

Question 38

What organization did W.E.B. Dubois found?

Answer 38

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)