Unit 6.1-6.3
A railroad linking the east and the west coasts of North America
Transcontinental Railroad
A legislative term applied to late nineteenth-century industrialists and capitalists who became very rich by dominating large industries
Robber Barons
The head of the local political machine
Political Boss
Philosophy that holds that truth can be discovered only through experience and that the value of ideas should be measured by their practical consequences.
Pragmatism
British passenger liner struck by German submarine torpedoes off the coast of Ireland on May 15, 1915
Lusitania
African American cavalrymen who fought in the west against American Indians
Buffalo Soldiers
Business Monopolies formed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through mergers and consolidation that inhibited competition and controlled the market.
Trust
Religious movement that advocated the application of Christian teachings to social and economic problems.
Social Gospel
Supporters of voting rights for women
Suffragists
The core principles President Woodrow Wilson saw as the basis for lasting peace, including freedom of the seas, open diplomacy, The establishment of the League of Nations, and the right to self-determination.
Fourteen Points
1887 Act that ended federal recognition of tribal sovereignty and divided American Indian land into 160-acre parcels to be distributed to American Indian heads of households
Dawes Act
1890 Act outlawing monopolies that prevented free competition in interstate commerce.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Organization founded in 1874 to campaign for a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
October 29, 1929 crash of the US Stock market
Black Tuesday
Followers of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young who migrated to Utah to escape religious persecution; also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Mormons
A company of private investigators and security guards sometimes used by corporations to break up strikes and labor disputes, most famously at the Homestead strike of 1892.
Pinkertons
French for "let things alone"
Laissez-faire
Theodore Roosevelts plan to provide economic and political stability to the nation by guaranteeing the rights of everyday workers and protecting business interests
Square Deal
Landmark 1935 act that created retirement pensions for most Americans, as well as unemployment insurance.
Social Security Act
Late Nineteenth-Century statutes that established legally defined racial segregation in the South.
Jim Crow
The belief that foreigners pose a serious danger to the nation's society and culture.
Nativist
Regional organizations formed in the nineteenth century to advance the interests of farmers
Farmers' Alliance
Aggressive foreign diplomacy backed by the threat of force
"Big Stick" diplomacy
Series of riots in 1943 in Los Angeles, California, sparked by white hostility toward Mexican American teenagers who dressed in suits with long jackets with padded shoulders and baggy pants tapered at the bottom.
Zoot Suit Riots