Unit 6 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Period 6
1876-1898
The first transcontinental railroad was completed in___ and created a vast intergraded _________
1869; national market for raw materials and manufactured goods.
___ invented the telephone in 1876
Alexander Graham Belle
John D. Rockefeller formed the
Standard Oil Trust in 1882
AFL is formed
1886
The _____ of 1862 opened the West to Agriculture. In thirty years, more land was made into farms than in the previous 250 years.
The Homestead Act
The ______ tried to “civilize” the Great Plains tribes b turning them into independent, self-supporting farmers. This act ignored all native culture, traditions, and took away their land.
Dawes Act
The ___dance caused fear towards the native Americans which resulted in the Battle of the Wounded Knee.
Ghost
____ advocated a “New South” but it never happened.
Henry Grady
Booker T Washington
Opposed the fight for the Jim Crow Laws and instead urged African Americans to submit to them so that America could just focus on their economy, etc.
Prior to the civil war, __was used as fuel but after, ___ was used more and played an important role in industrial capitalism.
Wood; coal
By ___ the richest ___% of American households owned over one third of the nation’s wealth.
1900; 2
Andrew Carnegie was a ___ but also believed that wealth came with a responsibility and so wrote “_____” and encouraged the rich to help financially in places to be “ladders upon which the aspiring can rise:”.
Social Darwinist
The Gospel of wealth
The Knights of Labor (1869), vs American Federation of Labor (1886) vs Wobblies
Knights of Labor included women and other minorities. Violence was used.
AFL Only skilled whites. Led by Samuel Gompers focused on bread and butter issues like wages and work conditions
Wobblies worked b “irresistible conflict between the capitalist class and working class.”
The Great Railroad Strike of ___ signaled the beginning of over 23,000 strikes and violence between labor and management that disrupted the American economy.
1877
In 1890 ___published “How the other half lives”
Jacob Riis
In 1890 a lot of ____,___,____and__ immigrated to America with hope just to be disappointed by the harsh realities of an immigrants life.
Polish, Russian, and Italians
IRL formed in 1894 (Immigrant Restriction League)
theory that each ethnic group had its own inborn characteristics.
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882
Walter Rauschenbusch
Prominent figure in the social gospel movement.
The Tweed machine who stole $200 million from the public treasury came to an end by
Thomas Nast
The New Deal was influenced by
Coxey’s army (jobless working on construction, roads)
Progressives rejected social Darwinism, believed that well informed citizens would fix many social issues and wanted to
“use the government as an agency of human welfare”
Muckrakers were journalist that
exposed corruption and social problems through investigative reporting.
