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
