HY 121 Exam 1
Investigative journals
"Nations" and "Haper's Weekly"
The Grange
Agricultural reform organization
Jack Johnson
Black Boxer Heavyweight champion white lover
Central Pacific
Blasting through Nevada mountains. Used chinese immagrants.
Henry Frick
Chairman of carnegie steel, defends carnegie steel against feds
Sioux Cheyen Arapaho Pawnee
Cheif tribes
Pullman strike
Chicago town created by George Paternalist figure Pullman luxury cars Fires men who want to discuss wages
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Competed with Thompson with his new york central railroad
Reservations
Concentrating indian territory for control.
Rum, romanism and Rebellion
Democrats of the south
ARU
Engine Debs
14th amendment
Equal citizenship under the law
"Steel large or not at all."
Gang
Back street dudes
Gang
Dead Rabbit
Gang
Hoodlum
Gang
Robber Baron
High class business men who used corruption and paying off people to make their business successful
Union Pacific
Hired irish immagrants for blasting
Hell's Kitchen
Immagrant gangs
Carnegie
Immagrant of scotland bought everything for his steel business bought out by JP Morning
People's Party
It drew support from angry farmers in the West and South and operated on the left-wing of American politics. It was highly critical of capitalism, especially banks and railroads, and allied itself with the labor movement.
Black Hills
Lands whites dont want. Given to indians. "A gain reserve for squaldering savages."
Cheif Joseph
Leader of the Nez Perce nation. "The country was made without lines of demarkation and it is no man's business to change that."
Thomas Watson
Leads uprising in the south
Barbed wire
Marking territory for indians.
Pittsburgh
Militia vs mob Fire set to city Strike
"****** Rule"
Opposition to black vote. Voter corruption.
J. Edgar Thompson
Owned the big Penn railroad system
Chicago
Policemen shoot men, women, and children. Strike
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Prohibited anti-competitive business
ICC
Railroad regulation agency
George Custer
Re-entered military for economic survival. His one-third force accidentally attacks a huge army of Indian warriors, what he mistook for a small village. He retreats to Little Big Horn where they are beaten miserably.
Mugwumps
Republican turn democrats
Wounded Knee
Shots fired in indian reservation. Massacre of women and children. Kills Ghost dancing and indian resistance.
Vaudeville
Show theaters
Jay Gould
Sold stock until it "watered down" because everyone owned the stock.
"Multiplier Effect"
Spend to save
Homestead
Steel strike Pittsburg Carnegie steel vs feds and strikers
Scabs
Strike breakers, men willing to take the job they quit
Sons of Vulcan, Algamated Association of steel workers
Strike groups
"Birds of passage"
Temporary immagrants
"Visible Hand" vs. "Invisible Hand"
The market Manipulating the market
4 railroad presidents in a hotel in NYC
Tom Watson (Penn) John Garrett (B and 0) Vanderbilt (NYC) Hugh Jewett (Erie)
Dawes Act
Tribal society must be disolved. Turn indians into farmers.
Boss Rule
Tweed, McManes, Flinn
Consolidation
Unifying the railroad system and time.
Richard Olney
Used injunctions against pullnnn Strikers.
Richard Zepp
Was breakman fortrains Leads railroad strike
"Watered stock"
When everyone ones the same stock.
Ghost Dancing
brings Christ's second coming, cult
Rockefeller
buys out everything for his oil refining "standard oil company"
Charles Dowd
came up with four time zones for the sake of the railroads
Carnegie and Rockefeller
case studies of manegerial revolution
"Yellow Kid" and "Happy Hooligan"
comic strips
Francis Walker
commissioner of Indian Affairs "when dealing with savage beasts, no questioned morality can arise."
Train workers
conductor ticket agent engineer firemen signal men crossing smith men cleaners sophmen telegrapher track worker
Cattle Frontier
cowboys cattle overflow economic imbalance
Bureau of Indian Affairs
established boarding schools where Indian children, removed from the "negative" influences of their parents and tribes, were dressed in non-Indian clothes, given new names, and educated in white ways.
Scott Joplin
famous for getting start on Vaudeville
Sitting Bull
leader of the su nation
"Nation" and "Evening post"
publications and newspapers
Reconstruction act
temporarily divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote.
