AP US Period 6 Flashcards

8963482604	Ghost Dance	Native American cultural experience	0
8963485313	John D. Rockefeller	Standard Oil	1
8963489256	Wounded Knee	US Soldiers killed large numbers of Souix	2
8963497590	Interstate Commerce Act	Law designed to regulate railroad industry	3
8963506025	Plessy v. Ferguson	Separate but Equal	4
8963506051	Gospel of Wealth	Idea of Carnegie; rich have a duty of philanthropy	5
8963516543	Laissez-Faire	Government does not interfere with economy	6
8963519147	NAWSA	Group fighting for women's suffrage	7
8963521839	Bessemer Process	turning iron into steel	8
8963523831	Andrew Carnegie	Carnegie Steel	9
8963526161	Homestead Strike	Strike against steel mills	10
8963530389	Sharecropping	System where one could rent land and pay owner portion of crops at the end of the season	11
8963537079	Custer's Last Stand	Battle of Little Bighorn; Sioux and Sitting Bull massacre US Army	12
8963547445	Social Darwinism	The strongest businessman will survive	13
8963550081	Sherman Antitrust Act	Law making monopolies illegal; ineffective	14
8963555007	JP Morgan	Robber Baron of banks and finance	15
8963558801	Pullman Strike	Large railroad strike	16
8963561805	Transcontinental Railroad	Railroad stretching from Atlantic to Pacific	17
8963564266	American Federation of Labor	large labor union with specific reform goals	18
8963572858	Populist Party	Party devoted to the people	19
8963576407	Dawes Act	Splitting of reservations; land given to Native Americans or sold to white settlers	20
8963579662	Grange	Group of angry farmers fighting railroad	21
8963581870	Chinese Exclusion Act	Strong quota against Chinese immigrants	22
8963585277	Hull House	Settlement house settled by Jane Addams	23
8963620618	Assimilation	Process where the dominant group forces their culture on other groups	24
8963623663	Gilded Age	Term used to describe serious social problems masked with a thin golden economic progress; coined by Mark Twain	25
8963630433	Socialist	One who believes in the ownership and control of the major means of production by the whole community rather than by individuals and corporations (or the government)	26
8963639828	Anarchist	Against government of all forms	27
8963644114	Tenement	Apartment building style building to live in; usually poor and overcrowded	28
8963648041	Prohibition	Alcohol is illegal	29
8963652575	Vertical Integration	Owning all steps of the manufacturing process-Carnegie Steel	30
8963655942	Horizontal Integration	Buying out competing companies in the same industry-Standard Oil	31
8963670285	Knights of Labor	Labor union that organized a wide range of workers-skilled and unskilled; broad reform goals	32
8963677012	Haymarket Riot	Labor dispute in Chicago that ended with a bomb thrown at police; many deaths; public opinion turns against organized labor	33
8963697288	Urbanization	Growth of cities	34
8963700958	Political Machine	Unofficial political organization; promised to solve urban problems in exchange for votes; usually corrupt	35
8963708133	Tammany Hall	Political machine in NYC led by Boss Tweed	36
8963711995	William Jennings Bryan	Populist (later official Democratic) presidential hopeful that pushed for the silver standard	37
8963723782	Industrial Revolution	Period characterized by rapid social and economic changes in manufacturing and agriculture; started in England and later moved to US	38
8963730845	Jane Addams	Reformer who helped poor immigrants; established Hull House	39
8963739132	Compromise of 1877	Troops were removed from South-North wins Hayes as President; marks the end of Reconstruction	40
8963743230	Jim Crow Laws	Segregation laws in the south	41
8963746369	Yellow Journalism	Sensational and exaggerated news stories	42
8963748681	Imperialsim	When a stronger country takes over a weaker country	43
8963762459	Yellowstone	first national park	44
8963764664	Panic of 1873	Financial panic where banks closed and stock market crashed	45
8963770269	Robber Barons	Industrialists who gained LOTS of wealth by exploiting employees; drove out competitors; owned monopolies	46
8963777930	Captains of Industry	Owners of large industrial enterprises who helped boost economy and push the US in a positive direction	47
8963787926	Ellis Island	Immigration processing center in NY	48
8963815172	Angel Island	Immigrant processing station on West Coast	49
8963915566	WEB DuBois	fought for racial equality	50
8963915594	Susan B. Anthony	Big figure in the fight for women's suffrage	51
8963919525	Teddy Roosevelt	President focused on conservation	52
8963921449	Ida B. Wells	Fought for the advancement of African American women	53
8963925106	Upton Sinclair	Muckraker; author of the Jungle	54
8963928549	Robert La Follette	Political reformer from Wisconsin	55
8963931722	Frances Willard	Fought for prohibition	56