Elections and Political Parties
Andrew Jackson referred to the election of 1824 as the ____________ due to a back room deal between John Q. Adams and Henry Clay that saw Adams elected.
The Corrupt Bargain
the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
Monopoly
This conflict started in 1846 and ended in 1848
The Mexican-American War
He Invented the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Gold was discovered in California in 1848 near this major city.
San Francisco
Also known as the people's party, this political party developed in the late 1800s as a response to the corrupt business practices of the Gilded Age. Farmers asked for the Gold Standard to be replaced, private ownership of railroads to be turned over to the government, and changes to the national bank to be made.
The Populist Party
the belief that a woman's proper role in life was found in Domestic pursuits (raising children, taking care of the house)
Cult of Domesticity
This Act was passed in 1830, the Trail of Tears would be a direct result in 1838 due to its passing.
The Indian Removal Act
A set of companies managed by a small group known as trustees, who can prevent companies in the ______ from competing with each other.
Trust
Who were the Exodusters?
African Americans who moved from the South to the American West
This party was created in the 1850s with ex members of the Free-Soil party, the Know-Nothing Party, Whigs all joining in an opposition to slavery. They would select Abraham Lincoln to be their candidate in the 1860 election following his success in debating Stephen Douglas over the topics of slavery leading up to the election.
The Republican Party
The "Invisible Empire of the South", founded in Tennessee in 1866, made up of embittered white Southerners who resented the success and ability of Black legislators. They would terrorize, mutilate, and even murder "upstart" blacks or their supporters to "keep them in their place".
KKK
This 1862 Act was passed with hopes of encouraging Americans to move to current states such as Iowa and Nebraska
The Homestead Act
Strategy to maximize profits by attempting to own every step of the manufacturing process. Ex. own the mines, own the trains that transport the iron ore, own the factories that turn iron ore into steel, own the companies that sell the steel.
Vertical Integration
The Act was passed in 1887 to encourage Natives to assimilate to white culture. In return they would be given land.
The Dawes Act
The Election of 1876 marks the end of Reconstruction, why?
Rutherford B. Hayes did not win the necessary electoral votes to win a majority. As a compromise, the south gave the necessary votes to Hayes if he promised to remove the troops from the South. He complied officially ending Reconstruction in the US. (Also known as the Compromise of 1877)
Means something is gold covered
The late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900.
Term derived from writer Mark Twain.
Gilded Age
Daily Double
This massive building project started in 1863, and saw the project finished in 1869 in Utah.
Strategy to maximize profits by attempting to purchase competing companies in the same industry; monopoly-building. Ex. Buying all of the fast food restaurants in town.
Horizontal Integration
a ceremony incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. According to the teachings of spiritual leader Wovoka (renamed Jack Wilson), proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits to fight on their behalf, end American Westward expansion, and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to Native American peoples throughout the region.
The Ghost Dances
Although the Gilded Age Government was heavily influenced by the Titans of Industry financially (hooray for bribes) they did pass this act in an attempt to break up the monopolies that formed in the US in the late 1800s. The Act was written too vaguely according to the courts however, and would not be used until Teddy Roosevelt took on the roll of being a Trust Buster.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
During the late 1800s the government adopted this economic policy towards big business which literally means "hands off"
Laissez-Faire
Place these 4 Compromises in Chronological Order:
The Missouri Compromise
The Great Compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Compromise of 1850
The Great Compromise- 1787
The Missouri Compromise-1820
The Compromise of 1850-1850
The Kansas-Nebraska Act-1854
Match the Titan of Industry to their correct industry:
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Oil
Steel
Railroads
Investment Banking
Andrew Carnegie- Steel
J.P. Morgan- Investment Banking
John D. Rockefeller- Oil
Cornelius Vanderbilt- Railroads
Referred to as Sweard's Folly or Sewards Icebox, in 1867 the purchase of this Western Land was seen as the worst purchase in American History.
Alaska