Hist 1302 Exam 1

What year was the battle of the wounded knee (massacre)?

1890

Who invented the battery?

ALESSANDRO VOLTA, JOHN STRINGFELLOW

Who invented the telephone?

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

What are some characteristics of people in a croplien system?

ALL OF THE ABOVE

Who built the largest steel corporation?

ANDREW CARNEGIE

Who wrote the gospel of wealth?

ANDREW CARNEGIE

Who was the first person to develop usable electricity?

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

What happened in the election of 1888

Benjamin Harrison

What group of people used saloons?

COWBOYS

Where is the center of the Pork processing world in 1862?

Chicago

Who led the Colorado Militia at the sand creek massacre?

Col. John Chivington

Who won the election of 1896

Dem. Grover Cleveland

What Island were imigrants brought to in New York?

ELLIS ISLAND

Who developed the frontier thesis?

Frederick Jackson Turner

Who was a major prophet of the new south?

Henry W. Grady

What strike happened in Homestead Pennsylvania?

Homestead Strike (1892)

Who created the standard oil company?

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Who invented Barbed wire?

Joseph Glidden

Who was Ida B. Wells

Journalist, civil rights leader, Leader of the NAACP

Who invented the camera?

LOUIS LE PRINCE, JOHANN ZAHN

Who was JP Morgan?

MADE A FORTUNE IN RAILROAD, REORGANIZED BUSINESSES TO MAKE THEM MORE PROFITABLE

Where did Exo dusters move?

Mostly Kansas, but also Oklahoma, Colorado, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Arizona, and Montan

What state did the Comstock lode happen in?

Nevada

Who won the election of 1880

Repub. James Garfield

What development/invention created an urban/industrial revolution?

STEAM ENGINE

Who founded the American Federation of labor?

Samuel Gompers in 1886

What was the most dramatic expansion in the new south?

TEXTILES

What stopped chinese immigration to the US for 10 years?

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization

The Hay market riot associated unions with what?

The knights of labor (KOL)

What university did Booker T. Washington found?

Tuskegee University

What happened as a result of the panic of 1893

Unemployment rates soared to twenty to twenty-five percent in the United States during the Panic of 1893. Homelessness skyrocketed,

Who adopted a strategy of ceaseless agitation for African Americans?

WEB DUBOIS

What important thing happened in Promontory Summit Utah?

WHERE THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD WAS COMPLETED ( railroad from Sacramento to Omaha)

What state was the first to let women vote?

Wyoming

What's the ghost dance and who did it?

a spiritual movement that arose among Western American Indians

What were sanitary reformers?

brought more water to cities in the mid-nineteenth century

What was the result of the Pullman strike of 1894?

halted rail traffic and commerce in 27 states stretching from Chicago to the West Coast

What did William Grahm Sumner Advocate?

laissez-faire economics, as well as "a forthright proponent of free trade and the gold standard and a foe of socialism

What did James Blaine do?

leading public republican diplomat

In 1900 the US had 2 million child laborers. Where did they work?

mills, mines, fields, factories, stores, streets

Who came up with the theory of natural selection?

naturalist Charles Darwin

What's the gilded age?

period of economic growth as the United States jumped to the lead in industrialization ahead of Britain

What was the Mississippi plan?

plan by the Democratic Party to overthrow the Republican Party in the state of mississippiJournalist,

Lester Ward argued for what?

supported the idea of equality of women as well as the equality of all classes and races in society

What 3 things did homesteading families battle?

there were few building materials, and harsh weather, insects, and inexperience

What did the national labor union want?

to improve working conditions through legislative reform rather than through collective bargaining.

What did the international workers of the world want?

to organize unskilled laborers in order to challenge and overthrow the capitalist system

What groups did the knights of labor admit to their organization?

white men

What was the result of the great railroad strike of 1877?

workers did not receive pay raises