saberian test HIST1302
How did Populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops?
They called for public ownership of the railroads.
The writer who's work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was
Uptown Sinclair
Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:
Muckrakers
How did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in America
Railroads created a true national market for U.S. goods.
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.
Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League:
believed that American energies should be directed at home, not abroad.
the Triangle Shirtwaist fire
brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation.
During his presidency, Woodrow Wilson:
dismissed numerous black federal employees.
Thomas Edison
invented a system for generating and distributing electricity
The supreme Court in Lochner v. New York
voided a state law establishing that bakers could work a maximum of 60 hrs/week
Chief Joseph
wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Percé.
American expansionism after the 1890s:
was largely driven by the desire for expanded overseas trade.
Dollar Diplomacy
was used by William Howard Taft instead of military intervention
Plessy v. Ferguson
sanctioned racial segregation.
Eugenics is the
the study of the supposed mental characteristics of different races.
Bonanza Farms
typically had thousands of acres of land or more.
The progressive movement drew its strength from
middle-class reformers
The Indian victory at the Little Bighorn
only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.
