1st Nine Weeks CRT Flashcards
(23 cards)
What group of settlers was known as Exodusters?
African Americans who moved to Kansas.
What did the Plains Indians depend on for their food, shelter, and clothing?
Buffalo
Where did the first flight take place?
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
The Bessemer Process revolutionized which industry?
Steel Industry
Railroads led to the adoption of what?
Time Zones
What was assimilation?
Person or Groups language or culture resemble other groups
Why was the transcontinental railroad important?
Trade, commerce, and travel
In capitalism, most industries are run by what?
Private owners (not the state)
What is vertical and horizontal integration?
Vertical - supply is owned by that company.
Horizontal - company creates production units.
What did the Sherman Anti-Trust act do?
Prohibited trusts
What two checks did immigrants have to pass at Ellis or Angel island?
Health and if they were a criminal
What is nativism?
White people born in America were better than anybody
What did Elisha Otis invent?
Elevator
What were Jim Crow laws?
Laws that separated blacks from whites
What were “New Immigrants”
Immigrants that came for political, social, and economic reasons
What was the Gentlemen’s agreement between the U.S and Japan?
U.S wouldn’t allow Japanese immigrants
What was the idea behind social gospel?
Christians were mad about things like poverty
What was the subject of Thomas Nast’s cartoons?
Chinese Exclusion act
What did the Populist party want to happen?
End Jim Crow laws
When it came to trusts what was Roosevelt known as?
The Trust Buster
What did 19th amendment do?
Allow any sex to vote (women)
What is a Muckraker?
Writers that illustrated corruption and scandal in politics
What is 17th amendment?
Direct elections of senators by popular vote
