Unit 5- Post Civil War US

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What did land grants provide?

- a route - gave land to sell to raise money for building of the tracks

Homestead Act

- encouraged settlement -provided land to people in the west as long as they agreed to make their home there

Capital

-BUS -tariff -subsidies

What did the the transcontinental railroad do?

-Railroad Companies land grants -created national economy market created large body of Chinese immigrants Huge impact of Native Americans

Domestic Affairs

-Rapid economic growth -Westward fostered by government policies: support/encouraged

What are some government policies or technological advances that contributed to post-civil war westward expansion

-Transcontinental RR -Homestead Act -Indian Wars

Where was gold and silver discovered

Colorado

Failed attempt to assimilate Plain Indians

Dawes Act

What did overproduction of wheat do?

Decreased price and increased production

This act controlled railroad rates and policies

Interstate Commerce Act 1889

What group wanted Gold Standard?

bankers, businessmen

What was the main domestic issue

bimentalism

What led to the Indians Wars?

broke treaties

What did the Boss do?

controlled jobs, business license & influenced the court system

political machines

controlled the activities & city government political party in a city

17th amendment

direct election of US senators

What is capitalism?

economic system in which means of production are owned and controlled by individuals for profit

What group wanted Bimentalism

farmers

What was the 16th amendment

federal income tax

Why the bank?

high interests on loans-foreclosures

Why the RR?

high rates to transport produce

What did the Sherman Anti-trust Act do?

illegal to form monopolies

Support of candidates who are sympathetic with farmers issues

political

political corruption

problem in cities

18th amendment

prohibition

What did populism not worry about?

prohobition

What were Union Leader Radicals?

rounded up and executed for crime

Who were craft Unions?

skilled workers in skilled trade

How did the Craft union strike become more effectively?

skilled workers were harder to replace

government control of economy

socialism

What id philanthropy mean?

very rich people who give away lots of money

What were the four parts of the Wisconsin idea

women suffrage, primary, referendum, Recall

19th amendment

womens suffrage

labor

workers immigration

Referendum

yes/no votes

What did Carnegie call philanthropy?what did it mean?

¨Gospel of wealth¨ which mean successful people should give back to society

What was William Jennings Bryan famous quote?

¨cross of gold¨

What created a national economy by uniting all parts of the country?

Transcontinental RR

Haymarket affair

3,000 people gathered at Haymarket square to protest police treatment of striking workers

What were the 2 main women suffragettes?

Carrie Chapman Alice paul

What Act limited number of chinese immigrant?

Chinese Exclusion Act

Created the quote of ¨survival of the fittest¨

Herbert Spencer

¨rags of riches¨

Horatio Alger´s

Land

Indian removal Expansion pf the west sanctity land grants subsidy

Recall

allow votes to remove on office

What was the general strike?

other rail workers struck in sympathy

What was the real cause of economic distress?

overproduction

Subsidy

payment from the government for a specific economic purpose

Primary

people choose candidate

Four facts of Plain Indians

-nomadic -hunted Buffalo -communal -White settlers and Plain Indians cannot co-exist

Land grants

-provided land on which build, materials with which to build, and workers to railroad companies

What are the 2 wilson amendments?

16 and 17

What are 2 Roosevelt amendment?

18 & 19

what was the first Craft union?

AFT- American Federal Labor

Who was the owner of US steel?

Andrew Carnegie

Who did they blame?

Banks and railroads

Crusters last stand

Battle of the little big horn

Paper money banked by gold or silver, more money=worth less

Bimentalism

What is Horizontal Integration

Buying companies that produce similar products- in thus case other steel companies- Rockefeller

Who invented electricity?

Edison

What were the 2 Wilson Acts?

Federal Reserve Act Clayton Anti-trust Act

Why was J.P Morgan called ¨Robber Barons¨?

For his cut-throat tactics

What movement was the new religion among the Sioux that increased tension with the Army prior to the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Ghost movement

dollars backed by gold, less $=worth more

Gold standard

State laws that regulate RR But supreme court found this unconstitutional because only federal laws can regulate interstate commerce

Granger laws

Migration of African American from southern to northern industrial cities

Great Migration

A Century of dishonor

Helen Hunt Jackson

Railroad people

Leland Stanford Cornelius vanderbilt

What act inspected meat packing industry?

Meat Inspection act

What is it called when two or more companies combine?

Merger

What is Grange?

Organization of farmers

What does political activism leads to?

Populism

¨revolt of the farmers¨

Populist movement

What strike was when Pullman Company land of thousands of workers and cut wages, workers went on strike?

Pullman Strike

What Act banned use of harmful additives- required truth in advertising and created FDA?

Pure food and Drug Act

Which strike was when workers from railroads struck to protest wage cuts?

Railroad strike

What is ROSE?

Railroad, Oil, Steel, Electricity

Who´s company was the Standard Oil- horizontal and vertical Integration?

Rockefeller

Which battle was where 270 cheyanne were killed by US army?

Sand Creek Massacre

What were the battles of Indians Wars?

Sand Creek Massacre, Battle of the Little Big horn, Wounded Knee Massacre

What act did the Supreme court use to jail Debs?

Sherman Anti-trust

Belief that success is a sign of God´s favor and poverty is the result of inferiority and laziness

Social Darwiness

Who was Eugene Debs?

Socialist labor leader. He tried to settle the dispute In the Pullman strike but it had turned violent

What was Knights of labor

Union called in Chicago strike at the Haymarket affair

Tammany Halls-NYC

William Maney Tweed¨Boss Tweed¨

Who was the Republican candidate in the Election 1896?

William McKinley

Who was the Populist Democrat candidate in the Election 1896?

Williams Jennings Bryan

Which battle ended the Indian Wars?

Wounded Knee Massacre

What happened at the Haymarket affair?

a bomb exploded

What is the Bessemer process?

a new method for making steel

What did populist party wanted?

income tax, popular election of senators, secret ballots, 8-hours work day

Technology

interstate commerce patent law

Entrepreneurship-promote

interstate commerce sanctity

What did Transcontinental railroad encourage?

killing of the buffalo

Government keeps their hands off economy

laissez-faire capatilism

The moving of people

migration

What did Vertical and Horizontal integration create?

monopolies

What is Vertical Integration of steel?

one company controls every step of the manufacturing process from raw material to finished product

Who were anarchists?

oppose all organized government

nativist

oppose immigration, favored native-born americans


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