Vidtermes Flashcards
Highlighted the weaknesses of the articles ofconfederation
Shay’s rebellion
Set up the process of turning land into states
Northwest ordinance
Created proportional and equal representation
Great compromise
Gave settlers free land after living on it for 5 years
Homestead act
Gave natives free land if they agreed to assimilate
Dawes act
Individual who investsin a business, benefitsfrom the freemarket systems
Entrepreneur
Lange company owned by multiple sources,able to produce more goods for less
Corporation
Nickname given to industrialists who engaged in corrupt activities
Robber baron
Tax on imported goods, meant to protect businesses
Protective tariff
What factors caused unions to form in the late 18th / early 19th centuries?
Badworking conditions, poor wages, long hours
How were the knights of labor different from other unions, like the American federation of labor?
They allowed women and African Americans and unskilled workers to join.
A philosophy based on Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection, assenting that humans have developed through competition and natural selection with only the strongest surviving
Social Darwinism
A movement to aid and help the poor
Social gospel movement
An organization linked to politicalparties that often controlled local government
Political machines
Multi-family apartment buildings that are often dark and dirty
Tenements
Causes someone towant to leave a country (war, famine,disease, religious persecution)
Push factor
Causes someone to want to move to a country ( religious freedom, economic opportunities, political stability)
Pull factor
Intended to help small farmers by placing limits on railroad companies, created reform at the federal level
Interstate commerce act
Required government employees to pass an exam,createdreform at the federal level
Pendleton civil service act
Allows voters to place an issue before the votersor legislative for approval
Initiative
Allows voters to accept or reject B measures proposed by the legislature
Referendum
Enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office
Recall
This country was opened up to American trade with the open door policy
China
This country was annexed by the United States after it was one in the Spanish American war. The US had to put down an insurrection to take control of it
-Philippines
This country is blamed for the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor
Spain
A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
Isolationism
Hostility towards immigrants
Nativism
Medium of communication intended to reach a wide audience
Mass media
An economic theory that lower taxes will boost economy has businesses and individuals invest their money by creating higher tax revenue
Supply side economics
Scopes trial
Fundamentalism versus modernism in teaching evolution
