Unit 6 Vocab

Question 1

Homestead Act

Answer 1

160 acres to anyone to settle and develop it. Government encouraged westward migration

Question 2

Morrill Land Grant Act

Answer 2

money from public lands given to states to form colleges

Question 3

Reservation System

Answer 3

Gov assign plain tribes large land, they refused to cooperate leading to Indian Wars

Question 4

Chief Joseph

Answer 4

Lead Nez Perce. “I will fight No More Forever” mourned young indian men killed in battle

Question 5

A Century of Dishonour

Answer 5

Helen Hunt Jackson wrote about experiences of Native Americans, attempt to change government policy

Question 6

Dawes Severalty Act

Answer 6

Indian land divided into 160 acres. attempt to assimilate Natives

Question 7

Assimilation of Native Americans

Answer 7

Formal education, job training, and conversion to Christianity. boarding schools

Question 8

Ghost Dance Movement

Answer 8

Reunite the living with the spirits of the dead and bring peace, prosperity, and unity. believed it would return propserity

Question 9

Wounded Knee Massacre

Answer 9

Gunned 200 Indians. End of Indian Wars

Question 10

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 10

San Francisco to the east. Central Chinese West. Union African Irish East

Question 11

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 11

1882 passed by congress Chester A Arthur for 10 years

Question 12

Frederick Jackson Turner

Answer 12

Frontier Thesis: Provided a place for homeless, solved special problems, growth of African democracy

Question 13

Monopolies

Answer 13

exclusive control in a specific market. Robber Barons, John R

Question 14

John D Rockefeller

Answer 14

Standard Oil Company 90% of oil and used horizontal combination

Question 15

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 15

Steel king, vertical integration, control every phase. Improve efficiency by making supplies more reliable and eliminate middleman

Question 16

Gospel of Wealth

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Andrew Carnegie. Great Wealth brought responsibility

Question 17

Social Darwinism

Answer 17

Poor are poor because not fit to survive

Question 18

Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

Answer 18

farmers sought to forbid price discrimination and other monopolistic practice

Question 19

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Answer 19

Gov oppose monopolies. ineffective replaced by Clayton Antitrust act

Question 20

Knights of Labor

Answer 20

1869 largest labor organization. skilled and unskilled, equal pay for women and african american. 8 hr

Question 21

American Federation of Labor

Answer 21

1886 Samuel Gompers. shorter work days, better pay, safer working conditions.

Question 22

Tenement Housing

Answer 22

poorly built and overcrowded

Question 23

Gilded Age

Answer 23

Mark Twain. America is amazing and rich but really it isn’t

Question 24

William Tweed

Answer 24

William Weed Tally Hall. Tammany Hall. Lead corrupt politicians. Ensure loyalty of voters through jobs

Question 25

Thomas Nast

Answer 25

Political cartoonist. corruption of tweed ring

Question 26

Whiskey Ring

Answer 26

1875, diversion of tax revenues among gov, politicians, whiskey distillers, distributors.

Question 27

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Answer 27

Union Pacific hired themselves at inflated prices to build railroad. Gov paid to stay quiet

Question 28

Charles Guiteau

Answer 28

Shot and Killed James Garfield 1881. Arthur becomes prezzz

Question 29

Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

Answer 29

Restricts the spoils system, establish a merit system

Question 30

Grange/Farmers Alliance

Answer 30

1867 by Oliver kelly, support West farmers. founding populist party

Question 31

Women's Christian Temperance Union

Answer 31

Frances Willard to oppose alcohol consumption

Question 32

National Women's Suffrage Association

Answer 32

Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1869. 19th amendment secure voting rights for women

Question 33

Populist Party (People's Party)

Answer 33

1892. Farmers Alliance and low wage workers. Wanted larger role of government in society, progressive income tax, direct methods of democracy

Question 34

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 34

Populists and Democrats supported. unlimited coinage of silver "cross of gold" speech. Lost

Question 35

Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

Answer 35

segregated railroad cars. Supremem court ruled "separate but equal"