GACS lclab- US History Fall Final Review - Unit 5 - Chapters 13 through 16
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| 50634042 | Thomas Edison | Inventor; developed the light bulb, phonograph, and hundreds of other inventions in the late 1800s and early 1900s. | |
| 50634043 | Alexander Graham Bell | Inventor; developed the telephone in 1876; one of the founders of American Telephone and Telegraph Company (ATT) | |
| 50634044 | John D. Rockefeller | Standard Oil, gave millions of dollars to charity, set buildings on fire | |
| 50634045 | Andrew Carnegie | Industrialist who made a fortune in steel in the late 1800s through vertical consolidation; as a philanthropist, he gave away some $350 million | |
| 50634046 | J. P. Morgan | banker who created U. S. Steel Corporation, which controlled about 60% of steel business | |
| 50634047 | Terence Powderly | former machinist who lead the knights of labor | |
| 50634048 | Samuel Gompers | Formed and led the American Federation of Labor (AFL), a craft union | |
| 50634049 | Harry Bessemer | developed new process for making steel.1856 patent for bessemer process. made steel much easier and cheaper to remove impurities. | |
| 50634050 | Eugene V. Debs | Leader of the American Railway Union, involved in Pullman Strike of 1894. | |
| 50634051 | George A. Custer | General who directed army attacks against Native Americans in the 1870's; killed in 1876 at Little Bighorn in Montana. | |
| 50634052 | Sitting Bull | Leader of Sioux Indians in clashes with United States Army in Black Hills in 1870's. | |
| 50634053 | Frederick Jackson Turner | Historian who wrote an essay in 1893 emphasizing the western frontier as a powerful force in the formation of the American character | |
| 50634054 | Jane Addams | cofounder of the Hull House, the first settlement house, in 1889, remained active in social causes through the eary 1900's. | |
| 50634055 | William Jennings Bryan | Advocate of silver standard and proponent of democratic and populist views from the 1890s through the 1910s; democratic presidential candidate 1896, 1900 and 1908. | |
| 50634056 | Jacob Riis | Reformer wrote "How the Other Half Lives;" describing the livesof poor immigrants. | |
| 50634057 | Charles Guiteau | American lawyer, assassinated U.S president James A. Garfield on July 2, 1881 | |
| 50634058 | Josiah Strong | Congregationalist minister who believed that Anglo-Saxon and Germanic people were superior toward those socities they conquered | |
| 50634059 | Jacob Coxey | Populist who led Coxey's Army in a march on Washington DC in 1894 to seek government jobs for the unemployed. | |
| 50634060 | Rutherford B. Hayes | 19th President of the United States, 1877-1881. Promised to withdraw Union troops from the south... | |
| 50634061 | Grover Cleveland | 22nd and 24th president of the United States 1885-1889 and 1893-1897. Supported railroad regulation and a return to the gold standard. | |
| 50634062 | William M. Tweed | Boss of Tammany Hall political machine in New York City; convicted of forgery and larceny in 1873 and died in jail in 1878. | |
| 50634063 | Thomas Nast | German immigrant who was a political cartoonist targeting boss William Marcy Tweed. | |
| 50634064 | Anthony Comstock | 1873 Purity Crusader who founded the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Comstock Law prohibited sending of obscene material through the mail | |
| 50634065 | Booker T. Washington | African American leader from the late 1800's until his death in 1915; founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; encouraged African Americans to learn trades. | |
| 50634066 | W.E.B. Du Bois | Disliked Booker T. Washington because of different perspectives on African American Education. African American scholar and leader in early 1900's; encouraged African Americans to attend colleges to develop leadership skills. | |
| 50634067 | William F. Cody | Created popular Wild West shows in 1883. | |
| 50634068 | Horatio Alger, Jr. | Magazine writer; characters embodies the American dream of "rags to riches." | |
| 50634069 | Frederick Winslow Taylor | tried to improve worker efficiency in a steel plant. Formed foundation for an entire system for management of workers. Wrote the Principles of Scientific Management. | |
| 50634070 | Jim Crow | statutes that required segregation by race for public services. | |
| 50634071 | Pendleton Act | 1883 law that created a civil service commission and stated that federal employees could not be required to contribute campaign funds nor be fired for political reasons. | |
| 50634072 | Sherman Act | Law passed by congress in 1890 that outlawed any combination of companies that restrained interstate trade or commerce. | |
| 50634073 | Interstate Commerce Act | 1887 law passed to regulate railroad and other interstate businesses | |
| 50634074 | Hull House | Settlement House/Center for community activity in Chicago offering cultural events, classes, crafts etc. | |
| 50634075 | In His Steps | bestselling book written by Charles Monroe Sheldon about a man who challenges his church to not do anything without first asking what would Jesus do | |
| 50634076 | Cross of Gold | famous speech by Williams Jennings Bryan | |
| 50634077 | Gospel of Wealth | Andrew Carnegie's philosphy that poverty could be fixed by philanthropy | |
| 50634078 | Credit Mobilizer | scandal where politicians were paid off using federal money intended for railroad expansion | |
| 50634079 | Atlanta Compromise | a "mocking name of Booker T. Washington's speech" by W.E.B. Du Bois (Washington's speech called for hard work and that no race will prosper till it learns that there is as much "dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.") | |
| 50634080 | Sand Creek Massacre | Black Kettle and other Indian chiefs agreed to camp at Sand Creek because they were promised protection. Colonel John Chivington took advantage of there situation and with 700 men, slaughtered between 150 and 500 people, mostly women and children. |
