Ch. 13 Changes on Western Frontier/Populist Movement
Ch. 14 New Industrial Age
Ch. 15 Immigration & Urbanization
Ch. 16 Segregation/Discrimination/Mass Culture
Vocab
100
Idea that tried to bring Native Americans into “white culture”.
What is assimilation?
100
Advantages of electricity.
What are cheap and efficient?
100
Majority of immigrants to US came from these parts of Europe AFTER 1890.
Where is S & E Europe?
100
Laws targeted to separate African Americans from whites in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
100
Illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
What is graft(ing)?
200
Law that enticed Americans to settle Westward by giving them 160 acres of land to the head of the household.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
200
Effect of typewriter and telephone.
What is quicker and more efficient communication and new jobs for women?
200
Reasons why immigrants came to US.
What is escape religious persecution, less land to farm in Europe, more jobs in US, and political freedom?
200
Set of ideas and values that develop from a common exposure to the same media, news sources, music, and art.
What is mass culture?
200
Economic belief that the marketplace should not be regulated and businesses succeed or fail due to natural law.
What is laissez-faire?
300
Animal that played a crucial role in almost every part of the Plains Indians’ lives.
What is the buffalo?
300
Ways in which Railroad companies used their powers to hurt farmers?
What is fixed prices, sold land to other businesses, and rate discrimination?
300
Reason for Chinese-Exclusion Act of 1882.
What is took American jobs for less money?
300
Name one way African Americans were discriminated in US during late 1800s.
What is literacy tests, poll tax, Jim Crow Laws, and segregation?
300
First to drill oil underground in the United States.
Who is Edwin Drake?
400
Reason for high demand of beef during the late 1800s.
What is more cities in West?
400
How Andrew Carnegie became the leading manufacturer of steel in the United States.
What is created monopolies?
400
Goal for political machines.
What is gain votes and make money?
400
Principle created by Plessy v. Ferguson?
What is "Separate but equal?"
400
Route that shipped cattle from San Antonio, TX to Oklahoma and Kansas, then eastward.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
500
Name two major ideals of the Populist Party.
What are limit immigration, increase in money supply, eight hour work day, federal loans program, graduated income tax, single terms for P & VP, elect senators by popular vote, and secret ballots?
500
Name two major effects of social darwinism.
What is poor were lazy and inferior, justified millionaires buying out smaller companies, and reinforced "american dream" of working hard to become rich?
500
How President Rutherford B. Hayes tried to combat the patronage system in the US gov.?
What is elected independents to cabinet and created investigative commission?
500
Reason why African Americans migrated to Northern States around 1900.
What is better paying jobs and social equality?
500
Economic process in which a business buys out all of its competition.