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The solution to the need for safe kerosene. Others had been causing fires and explosions. No drilling is done; it is gathered by it being refined into kerosene. Rockefeller was the first to market it.
What is Standard Oil?
Creators of the Hull House. They used it as housing for immigrants and an overall help center. It was similar to the Freedmen's Bureau, but for European immigrants.
Who are Jane Adams and Ellen Gates Starr?
A political party that rallied for free silver, graduated income tax, direct election of Senators, etc; created by farmers who had been harmed by debt, low crop prices, and railroad monopolies (primarily in the South and Midwest).
What is the Populist Party?
Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, Ida B. Wells, and National Association of Colored Women.
Who were African American reformers?
It was intended to break up Indian lands into individual farms. All who wouldn’t comply were put on mass reservations. It weakened the Native American Tribal Culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
He believed he had the moral duty to use his wealth for the advancement of society because he felt that it was a responsibility that came with it. He made numerous charitable contributions totaling millions of dollars to the arts, health care, and educational institutions. In addition, he held that Christian values like honesty, integrity, and fairness guided his business decisions.
Who is John D Rockefeller?
A Muckraker who wrote "The Jungle", which told of gruesome details of the Chicago meat packing industry. It was fiction, but was inspired by true events.
A political party that was also known as the Independent Party and the National Party; was later succeeded by the Populist Party.
What is the Greenback Party?
A law that stopped African Americans from voting if their elders had not voted in 1864; was part of an even larger set of laws.
What is the grandfather clause as a part of the Jim Crows Laws?
The name of 3 treaties signed between the United States and Plains Indian tribes. It was intended to bring peace by relocating the Natives to reservations and away from European settlements. The treaties were between the Cheyenne, Arapaho Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche.
What was the Medicine Lodge Treaty?
His business decisions and philanthropy were significantly influenced by his religious convictions. He felt that he had a moral duty to use his wealth for the betterment of society because it was a responsibility that came with it. He made numerous charitable contributions totaling millions of dollars to institutions supporting the arts, health care, and education. He also held that Christian values like honesty, integrity, and fairness should govern his business decisions.
What is Andrew Carnegie's gospel of wealth?
Former slave and leading advocate for black education. wrote an autobiography titled "Up from Slavery" about how he attended school while sleeping on the streets. The Tuskegee Institute was influenced by his dedication and teachings.
Who is Booker T Washington?
An agenda adopted by the populist party. It called for bimetallism, which was the use of Silver and Gold in the economy. Along with a graduated income tax and election reforms.
What is the Omaha Platform?
Using the "separate but equal" principle, the Supreme Court upheld racial segregation as constitutional. The incident that gave rise to the case occurred in 1892 when an African American train passenger, refused to sit in a car designated for Black people.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
The school was made to assimilate the Native Americans into American society and culture. They were forced to speak English, wear American clothes and carry a Bible. This went on for 30 years
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
He had a significant impact on modern life, producing innovations like the phonograph, motion picture camera, incandescent light bulb, as well as telegraph and telephone improvements.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The boss of Tammany Hall who helped immigrants and expected their votes towards certain parties in return.
Who is Boss Tweed?
The case concluded that since the company's monopoly over sugar did not affect commerce, the government could not regulate it. The court also determined that the Antitrust Act was created to limit the growth of corporate monopolies. This would help protect people like farmers.
What is EC Knight v. United States?
Slavery was officially abolished and African Americans were made equal citizens of the United States by these two amendments.
What is the 13th and 14th Amendment?
A fake construction company controlled by Union railroad stockholders. It used government bonds along with laying themselves. The fake company uses profits from the creation of the railroad to pay shareholders. In the end, it cost the government twice as much as it did to build the railroad.
What is the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
The owner of the railroad that constructed the Chicago–New York line. In his railroad, he popularized the use of steel rails, which improved the safety and cost-effectiveness of railroads. One of the rare railroad owners who was just and wasn't labeled a "Robber Barron" was this man.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This president was shot by a mentally ill lawyer and had doctors stick their dirty hands into the wound to find the bullet. Even Alexander Graham Bell attempted to find the bullet with his technology. He later succumbed to his injuries and infections.
Who is James A. Garfield?
An informal, unwritten agreement that was used to resolve the contentious 1876 presidential election in the United States; it saw Republican Rutherford B. Hayes elected president on the condition that he would withdraw federal soldiers from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
A speech said African Americans should not use violence to achieve social equality. That they should instead become educated enough to be able to participate in the economic development of the South. Also that black people would have to accept segregation when it was happening in order to be successful in the long run.
What is the Atlanta Compromise Speech?
An event in which a group of distillers bound together to conspire a deception of government taxes. They used bribes towards the IRS members and underreporting to defraud the government of taxes. They did this in an attempt to raise money for their campaign of Grant.
What is the Whiskey Ring Scandal?