AP US History Chapter 17 Henretta 7th edition Flashcards
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7847453640 | Granger Laws | Economic regulation laws that resulted from Greenback pressure and rural protest group, the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry; their purpose was to regulate corporations and stimulate the economy | 0 | |
7847453641 | Vertical Integration | One company controlling the whole process of manufacturing their product | 1 | |
7847453642 | Horizontal Integration | One company controlling prices in order to absorb other companies under one corporate umbrella | 2 | |
7847453643 | Pooling | (of two or more people or organizations) put (money or other assets) into a common fund. | 3 | |
7847453644 | Holding | stocks, property, and other financial assets in someone's possession. | 4 | |
7847453645 | Jim Crow | A blackface character, and the name for a set of laws segregating whites and African Americans | 5 | |
7847453646 | Carnegie | Steel mogul during the 19th century | 6 | |
7847453647 | Vanderbilt | Railroad mogul | 7 | |
7847453648 | Swift | Producer of frozen, canned and packaged foods who pioneered horizontal and vertical integration | 8 | |
7847453649 | Rockefeller | Oil tycoon | 9 | |
7847453650 | Social Darwinism | Survival of the fittest applied to society and economy, said that only the strongest within society should have resources and that helping the poor was a disservice to society | 10 | |
7847453651 | Plessy v. Ferguson | Plessy was arrested for sitting in a white train coach, Supreme Court ruled that it was constitutional to enforce different accomadations, "separate but equal" | 11 | |
7847453652 | U.S. v E.C. Knight Co. | The Supreme Court ruled that the Sherman Antitrust Act could only be applied to commerce, not manufacturing | 12 | |
7847453653 | Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers | 13 | |
7847453654 | Sherman Antitrust Act | 1890 law banning any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce | 14 | |
7847453655 | Laissez-faire | Capitalist idea that stated that government should not interfere with the peoples economy | 15 | |
7847453656 | White Primary | primary election in which only white voters are eligible to participate | 16 | |
7847453657 | Grandfather Clause | Attempt to keep African Americans from voting by only allowing those whose Grandfather could read or write prior to the Civil War to vote | 17 | |
7847453658 | Poll Tests | Tests given to keep African Americans from voting | 18 | |
7847453659 | Poll Taxes | Required a tax to be paid when voting, it was also an attempt to keep blacks out of the polls | 19 | |
7847453660 | seperate but equal | racially segregated but ostensibly ensuring equal opportunities to all races | 20 | |
7847453661 | Black Codes | Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves | 21 | |
7847453662 | 13th Amendment | Abolished Slavery | 22 | |
7847453663 | 14th Amendment | Gave African Americans citizenship and restricted public discrimination | 23 | |
7847453664 | Redeemers | white Democrats who used their political power to oppress the Black community and try to bring back Southern society before the Civil War | 24 | |
7847453665 | Interracial | Between, among, or involving people of different races | 25 | |
7847453666 | Segregation | Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences | 26 | |
7847453667 | Miscegenation | the interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial types, a mixing of cultures | 27 | |
7847453668 | Booker T. Washington | African American who wanted blacks to focus on education and getting a marketable skill, founded the Tuskeegee Institute | 28 | |
7847453669 | W.E.B. DuBois | Black civil rights activist who wrote books and stuff | 29 |