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Unit 9 Review Flashcards

1
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What did the Homestead Act grant?

A

160 acres of land

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2
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Who harnessed electricity?

A

Thomas Edison

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3
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What is the name for a hands off economy?

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Laissez Faire

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4
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What are Vaqueros?

A

Mexican Cowboys

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5
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What ended the cowboys?

A

Barb wire

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6
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Which group was targeted for immigration restriction?

A

The Chinese

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7
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What was the final Indian battle?

A

Wounded Knee

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8
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What helped create the national market?

A

The Railroad

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9
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What was Angel Island?

A

An immigration station

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10
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Who was an inventor and entrepreneur?

A

Ford

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11
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What is another name for corporate farming?

A

Bonanza

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12
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What city was the meat packing capital?

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Chicago

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13
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What resulted from cheap money?

A

Inflation

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14
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What is the term for ruthless businessmen?

A

Robber Barons

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15
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What was the Long Drive?

A

The cowboy route taken to bring cattle to the railroads.

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16
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What is vertical integration?

A

When a company controls all manufacturing steps

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17
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What was the 1896 election issue?

A

The type of currency to be used

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18
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Who won the 1896 election?

A

McKinley

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19
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What happened because of underground mining?

A

Cave ins and fires

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20
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What is the melting pot?

A

Blending of cultures

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21
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What is Nativism?

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When the natives are hostile to immigrants

22
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Who is associated with standard oil?

A

Rockefeller

23
Q

What are African American cowboys?

A

Exodusters

24
Q

What is populism?

A

A movement among farmers

25
Q

What problems did farmers face at the Turn of the Century? (4)

A
  1. Price of crop drops
  2. Railroad monopolies
  3. Foreclosures on farms
  4. Greenback Issue
26
Q

List the organizations farmers were apart of (3):

A

Granges: Local Farmers
Farmer Alliances: Regional Farmers
Populist Party: National Farmers

27
Q

What did the Republicans (Bankers) believe in? (3)

A
  1. Gold currency - Less $$ in circulation
  2. Loans = more valuable and stable
  3. Deflation: Prices drop, value of $$ rises
28
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What did the Democrats (Farmers) believe in? (3)

A
  1. Bimetallism - More $$ in circulation
  2. Products sold at higher prices
  3. Prices rise, value of $$ drop
29
Q

What natural resources causes the rise of an industrial economy? (3)

A

Coal, oil, and iron ore

30
Q

What were the power sources for natural resources? (3)

A

Railroads, machines, and cars

31
Q

Who created steel in England?

A

Henry Bessemer

32
Q

What were the 2 sources of labor supply?

A
  1. Immigrants from Europe and Asia
  2. Internal migration from rural areas
33
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Who created steel in the US?

A

Andrew Carnegie

34
Q

Who created railroads?

A

Cornelius Vanderbilt

35
Q

What is horizontal integration?

A

One company buys out other companies of the same industry

36
Q

What is Social Darwinism?

A

Natural selection and the strongest business survive; allows for the haves and have nots

37
Q

What factors encourage the Western Settlement after the war? (3)

A
  1. New Life from War
  2. New Technologies
  3. Role of gov.
38
Q

US Military was used to clear the way for settlement:

A

Indian Policy

39
Q

What happened after the Dawes act was passed?

A

“Indian Schools” opened throughout the country

40
Q

How were old and new immigrants similar? (4)

A
  1. Experienced Nativism
  2. Worked toughest jobs
  3. Passed through an immigration station
  4. Lived in cities
41
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  1. Came before civil war
  2. Wanted land
  3. Protestants
  4. From N/W Europe
  5. Blended easily
A

Old Immigrants

42
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  1. Came after civil war
  2. Came to escape persecution/find jobs
  3. Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist
  4. From S/E Europe and Asia
  5. Discriminated and segregated
A

New Immigrants

43
Q

Prohibited all Chinese immigration except for students, teachers, merchants, and gov. officials:

A

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

44
Q

Limited the # of immigrants from a country to 2% of those nationalities living in the US in 1890. Targeted S/E Europe and Asia:

A

Immigration Restriction ct of 1921

45
Q

Why did immigrants support political machines?

A

They provided jobs and citizenship

46
Q

List the issues with the Political Machines (4):

A
  1. Corrupt
  2. Scandalous
  3. Tweed Ring
  4. Prompted Reform
47
Q

A religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century; led to the creation of settlement houses:

A

Social Gospel

48
Q

Which candidate was pro-business?

A

William McKinley

49
Q

Which candidate was pro-farmer?

A

William Jennings Bryan

50
Q

People that commanded enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state:

A

Political Machines

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