The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
The theory states that businesses should be left to themselves, resulting in optimal production and prices.
What is Laissez-faire?
The God-Given right to move west and settle all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
What was Manifest Destiny?
This authorized the U.S. President to break up communal Native American tribal lands into individual plots.
The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
Laws enforcing segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The first industry to be fully mechanized.
What are textiles?
Head of industries and trusts
What are robber barons?
Men moved to California with the dream of finding gold and becoming rich
What was the Gold Rush?
This was a path from Texas to Kansas for the movement of cattle.
What was the Chisholm Trail.
Uphold the constitutionality of “separate, but equal facilities” based on race.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Was revolutionary for the steel industry, and the way it was processed.
What is the Bessemer process?
Absorbed and/or destroyed competitors in Cleveland and elsewhere, and became a monopoly in oil.
Who is Rockefeller?
1862 Law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years for $10
What was the Homestead Act?
His belief was the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations.
Who was Frederick Jackson Turner
The adoption of sharecropping and tenant farming.
What is the South post-Civil War?
Pinkerton detectives were called upon to help put this down. As a result, 9 workers were killed.
What was the Homestead Strike
An undisputed master of the steel industry, and 1878 won the contract to build the Brooklyn Bridge.
Who is Carnegie?
A huge mining migration to Nevada took place do to this discovery.
What was the Comstock Lode.
Protest march by unemployed workers from the United States. They marched on Washington, D.C., in 1894.
Coxey's Army
Civil Rights organization in the US, formed in 1909, with meaningful names such as W.E.B. Du Bois.
What is the NAACP?
Eugene Debs organized this in reaction to wage cuts, high rents in the company town.
What was the Pullman Strike.
He was a successful businessman who used his fortune from the steamboat industry to merge local railroads into the New York Central Railroad.
Who is Vanderbilt?
This was a support system to promote farmers' social and economic needs.
What was the Grange Movement?
Group of African Americans that left the South for the plains and took part in the Homestead act.
What were Exodusters.
Self-educated former slaves advocated for the education of African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The first federal law designed to prohibit trusts, monopolies, and conspiracies that restrained interstate or foreign trade.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act