Unit 5 (He Didnt Bold The Imp)

Question 1

Tweed and his deputies swindled 200 million from New York City and ran the democratic party. CORRUPTION

Answer 1

Tweed Ring (1860s)

Question 2

Construction company formed by Union Pacific Railroad involved in scandal after bribing congressman and vice president. CORRUPTION

Answer 2

Credit mobile scandal (1872)

Question 3

Worldwide depression began when one of the nation’s largest banks declared bankruptcy

Answer 3

Panic of 1893

Question 4

Wealth and corruption era (1877-1896)

Answer 4

Gilded Age

Question 5

(1882) federal legislation prohibits further chinese immigration to the U.S. FIRST MAJOR RESTRICTION ON IMMIGRATION

Answer 5

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 6

(1892) Strike at Carnegie steel plant in Philadelphia, Pinkerton detectives kill 10 and wound 60. LABOR UNREST that helped populist gain support.

Answer 6

Homestead Strike

Question 7

(1874-1975) Segregation “separate but equal”

Answer 7

Jim Crow

Question 8

(1896) Upheld segregation laws,”separate but equal,” used to justify not violating the 14th amendment

Answer 8

Please vs Ferguson

Question 9

(1887) established interstate commerce commission. Compelled railroads to publish standard rates.

Answer 9

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 10

V company aquires/merges business up or down the supply chain. H merging companies at the same level of the chain, such as competitors

Answer 10

Vertical and horizontal integration

Question 11

M to have COMPLETE CONTROL over the market. T stockholders transfer their shares to trustees to LIMIT COMPETITION

Answer 11

Trust and monopoly

Question 12

(1870-1911) Rockefeller’s company that controlled 95 percent of oil refineries

Answer 12

Standard Oil Co

Question 13

(1890s) JP Morgan’s idea to have directors of one company serve on a board of directors of another company. ELIMINATE COMPETITION

Answer 13

Interlocking Directorates

Question 14

Belief of “survival of the fittest”

Answer 14

Social Darwinists

Question 15

(1890) law that forbade trusts or combinations of business. REGULATE

Answer 15

Sherman’s Anti-Trust Act

Question 16

(1869) secret national labor organization known for their efforts to organize workers regardless of gender, skill, or race.

Answer 16

Knight’s of labor

Question 17

(1886) May day rally that turned violent when someone threw a bomb into middle of meeting killing several dozen people. 8 anarchist arrested on thin evidence for conviction.

Answer 17

Haymarket Square

Question 18

(1886) trade union of white skilled laborers led by Samuel Gompers sought to negotiate better wages, hours, and conditions for workers.

Answer 18

American Federation of Labor

Question 19

(1880s - 1924) wave of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. EASTERN IMMIGRANTS congregated in ethnic neighborhoods out of fear of nativist.

Answer 19

New immigrants

Question 20

(Jane Addams and Lillian Wald) house settled in immigrant neighborhoods ran by women to offer several aid.

Answer 20

Settlement Houses

Question 21

School led by Booker T Washington in Alabama focused on training young black students in agri and trades to help them achieve economic.

Answer 21

Tuskegee Institute

Question 22

Journalism that emerged in NY out of circulation battles between Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst. Term refers to unethical/unprofessional journalism.

Answer 22

Yellow Journalism-Scandel

Question 23

(1890) demanded that women should be allowed to vote given their household responsibilities. Their support in WW1 helped women achieve nationwide sufferage.

Answer 23

NAWSA national women’s suffrage association

Question 24

(1870s) Founded in Ohio to temperance and embraced campaigns for abolishing of prostitution and women rights to vote.

Answer 24

WCTU women Christian temperance movement

Question 25

(1850s-1887) system alotted DESIGNATED land to Native Indians in the West.

Answer 25

Reservation system

Question 26

(1876) 2000 Indians kill more than 250 U.S. soldiers, including Colonel George Custard.

Answer 26

Battle of Little Big Horn

Question 27

(1890) Between the U.S. army and Sioux, where several hundred natives died. Tensions the ghost dance and Dawes Act reservation disputes.

Answer 27

Wounded Knee Massacre

Question 28

(1887) broke up indian reservations and distributed them to individual households.

Answer 28

Dawes Act

Question 29

Westerners and Southerners who believe the U.S. economy favored Eastern businessmen. THE COMMON MAN

Answer 29

Populists

Question 30

(1894), led by Eugene Debs, was a strike by railroad workers. President Grover Cleveland intervenes. HIGHLIGHTED DIVISIONS WITHIN LABOR AND GOV

Answer 30

Pullman Strike

Question 31

(1898) U.S battleship stationed in Havana Harbor exploded, killing 266 crew members. HELPED LEAD TO SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

Answer 31

USS Maine

Question 32

(1898) President William McKinley proclaims that when they take over Cuba, it would give Cuba it's freedom.

Answer 32

Tellers Amendment

Question 33

(1898) Roosevelts diverse regiment of Cuban war volunteers.

Answer 33

Rough Riders

Question 34

(1898- 1921) diverse group that protested against American oversight in the Philippines. Declined in strength after U.S signed Treaty of Paris.

Answer 34

Anti Imperialist league

Question 35

(1901) U.S successfully pressures Cuba into allowing U.S to intervene whenever. GUANTANAMO BAY

Answer 35

Platt Amendment

Question 36

(1899-1900) John Hay sends notes to urge great powers to respect Chinese. OPEN DOOR POLICY

Answer 36

Open Door Note

Question 37

(1900) Uprising in China directly towards foreign influence. Americans suppress, which paves the way for the revolution of 1911 and the Republic of China in 1912

Answer 37

Boxer Rebellion

Question 38

(1914) Man made waterway that shortened maritime trade. SYMBOLIZED U.S TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC POWERS.

Answer 38

Panama Canal

Question 39

(1904) POLICY OF PREVENTIVE INTERVENTION. U.S. would retain the right to intervene in Latin America

Answer 39

Roosevelt Corrolary

Question 40

"OUR DUTY AS CHRISTIANS TO HELP OUR FELLOW MAN"

Answer 40

Social Gospel

Question 41

Journalists who exposed corruption through writing

Answer 41

Muckrackers

Question 42

(1896-1917) reforms during the progressive era that sought to moderate the power of parties and political bosses.

Answer 42

Initiative, Referendum, and Recall

Question 43

(1908) Louis D Brandeis persuades court to accept the constitutionality of limiting female work hours to 10.

Answer 43

Muller vs. Oregon

Question 44

(1906) established federal inspections of the meat packing industry. FIMA aimed to prevent the sale of adultered/misbranded meat

Answer 44

Meat Inspection Act

Question 45

(1906) law passed by Congress to regulate the labeling of all foods and pharmaceuticals

Answer 45

Pure food and Drug act

Question 46

(1913) The federal gov of San Francisco allowed a dam to be built. Blow to preservationists who wanted to protect Yosemite National Park

Answer 46

Fetch Hetchy Valley

Question 47

(1903) U.S amends Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and impose heavy fines on railroads

Answer 47

Elkins Act

Question 48

Taft policy of supporting U.S investments in interests abroad such as China.

Answer 48

Dollar Diplomacy

Question 49

(1912) Reforms advocated by Wilson. Increases opportunities for capitalists rather than Increase gov regulations of large trusts

Answer 49

New freedom

Question 50

Roosevelts political philosophy of promoting federal intervention through regulating large industries and protecting rights of citizens

Answer 50

New Nationalism