Ch 16 Conflict in the West
In 1849 the rush to California was to mine?
Gold
Creator of Standard Oil
John Rockefeller
In years following the Civil War, segregation in the South-Increased or Decreased?
Increased
term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America
progressivism
Author of The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)-an exposé of the Standard Oil Company, run at that time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller
Ida Tarbell
The Dawes Act forced Native Americans to live on ______________
Reservations
A company formed by investors who share ownership
Corporation
Required a voter to be able to read to vote
Literacy Test
the fittest and the wealthiest should thrive/lead, the weak/poor deserve their fate
Social Darwinism
Author of The Jungle (1906) expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry.
Upton Sinclair
Two railroad companies responsible for Transcontinental railroad
Union and Central Pacific
Coined the phrase Gilded Age
Mark Twain
Supreme Court case which ruled "separate but equal"
Plessy v Ferguson
The perfect society is known as a?
Utopia
Leader of political machine known as Tammany Hall
William "Boss" Tweed
2 Soiux leaders responsible for massacre at Little Big Horn
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
Faction of Republicans who wanted to change the party
Half-breeds
Labor Union founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886
American Federation of Labor
In the book Progress and Poverty he promoted the Single Tax Theory
Henry George
What did the Volstead Act do?
Creates the Prohibition Bureau to enforce the 18th Amendment
Joseph Glidden's invention of ___________ changes the culture and economy of the West
Barbed Wire
This legislation attacked wealth businessmen and monopolies
Sherman Anti Trust Act
McCormick Harvester strike in which killed 8 and wounded over 100 was known as ____________ Strike
Haymarket
Name the 4 pillars of progressivism
Freedom, opportunity, responsibility, cooperation
Author of the "Square Deal and Big Stick Diplomacy"
Theodore Roosevelt