Chapter 5
Tourists, fur traders shoot it for sport, destroys what animal population. (Most important for tribal life)
What are Buffalo
Patented the incandescent light bulb and created a system for electrical production and distribution.
Who is Thomas Edison.
Immigrant processing station in San Francisco Bay
What is Angel Island
Racial segregation laws separate races in private and public places.
What are Jim Crow Laws
These brothers used engines to fly air crafts
Who are the Wright brothers
Lectured on interest rates, government control of railroads, and banks, and gained over 4 million members
What is the Farmers Alliance
First Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Chief U.S. immigration station in New York Harbor
What is Ellis Island
Segregation legal in public places- Allows "separate but equal" doctrine if provided equal service.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
___ link isolated towns, promote trade and interdependence
What are railroads
The 1878 Bland-Allison Act required the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of ___ and put it into circulation as ___ dollars.
What is Silver
He controlled almost the entire steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
Preaches salvation through service to poor
What is the Social Gospel movement.
System of slavery to work off debt to employer- 1911, Supreme Court declares unconstitutional
What is Debt peonage
Name types of American Leisure from the 20th century
What are Amusement Parks, Bicycling and Tennis, Spectator Sports, Baseball, Boxing.
Political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.
What is Populism
Designed to address the issues of railroad abuse and discrimination and required shipping rates to be reasonable and just.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
Japan limits emigration, and in return, the U.S. repeals segregation.
What is the Gentlemen's agreement
Opens first U.S. department store in Chicago
Who is Marshall Field
This political Party wanted low tariffs
Who are Democrats
Act that encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862.
What is the Homestead Act
Sets principle that federal government can regulate private industry
What are the Granger Laws
Organized group that controls city political party
What is a Political Machine
Informal rules for black-white relations and enforces second-class status for blacks.
What is Racial etiquette
Elected president 1876
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes