Vocab Unit 6 Flashcards
(28 cards)
A tax collected at the voting booth used to disenfranchise African Americans
Poll Tax
It broke up Indian reservations and distributed land to individual households. Leftover land was sold for money to fund government efforts to “civilize” Native Americans
Dawes Act
An 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of segregation laws, saying that as long as blacks were provided with “separate but equal” facilities. provided legal justification for the Jim Crow system until the 1950s
Plessy v. Ferguson
An aggressive eastern railroad builder and consolidator who saw the law as an obstacle to his enterprise
Cornelious Vanderbilt
A federal legislation that prohibited most Chinese immigration to the United States. This was the first major legal restriction on immigration in U.S. history
Chinese Exclusion Act
The system that allotted land with clear boundaries to Native American tribes in the west, beginning in the 1850s where land was used communally, rather than owned individually
Reservation System
This aggressive oil monopolist used tough means to build a trust based on horizontal integration
John Rockefeller
A protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by an Ohio businessman. They marched on Washington D.C. in 1894
Coxey’s Army
Leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic party
William Jennings Bryan
The application of the theory of natural selection to society - specifically in economics and business in America
Social Darwinism
The practice of dominating a particular phase of the production process in order to monopolize a market, often by forming trusts an alliances with competitors.
Horizontal Integration
A short-lived Political party of Mostly Western Settlers. It will eventually merge with the Democratic Party
Populist Party
Federal government jobs given on the basis of examinations instead of political patronage. This ended the spoils system
Pendleton Act
An education test given to African Americans with the intention of disenfranchising their vote
Literacy Test
This massacre marked the definitive end of Indian resistance to the encroachments of white settlers
Wounded Knee
Scottish immigrant who organized a vast new industry on the principle of vertical integration
Andrew Carnegie
The practice of controlling every step of the industrial production progress in order to increase efficiency and limit competition
Vertical Integration
This battle was a particularly violent example of warfare between whites and Native Americans in the late 19th century, also known as “Custer’s Last Stand”
Battle of Little Big Horn
Inventive genius of industrialization who worked on devices such as the electric light, the phonograph, and the motion picture
Thomas Edison
It refers to the practice of politicians making reference to the blood of martyrs or heroes to criticize opponents
Waving the Bloody Shirt
The second national union, known for their efforts to organize all workers, regardless of skill level, gender, or race. Membership declined after the mid 1880s due to participation in violent strikes
Knights of Labor
An argument by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that claimed American democracy was shaped by values associated from frontier settlement
Turner Thesis
Where one company grants control over its operations, through ownership of its stock, to another company. It is a monopoly and even though stock is sold, shareholders have no say in the company
Trust
A system of racial segregation in the American South from the end of Reconstruction until the mid-twentieth century
Jim Crow
