AP Test Flashcards

12786423478	Boss Tweed	The leader of the Democratic Tammany Hall, New York political machine	0
12786429359	AFL	A labor union formed in 1886 by Samuel Gompers It fought against labor forces and debated work conditions for skilled workers. Utilized Strikes.	1
12786495927	When was the Philippines gained?	1898	2
12786503501	Sharecropping	a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent, unfair to worker	3
12786520555	Panics of	1873 and 1893	4
12786531629	Political Reform	people's choice (Roosevelt), gov't ownership of telephones and graphs	5
12786552961	People's (Populist) Party	An agrarian-populist political party in the United States, drew support from angry farmers	6
12786569410	Free Silver	Coinage of silver, instead of gold, 1896	7
12786569411	William Jennings Bryan	Cross of Gold Speech, Wizard of Oz	8
12786587865	New immigration	Immigrants from Southern and Eastern European countries and Asia arriving in the late 1800s	9
12786598596	urban neighborhoods	ethnic groups of immigrants (Chinatown)	10
12786608951	Nativism	The fear or hatred of immigrants	11
12786623892	political machine	a strong party organization that can control political appointments and deliver votes	12
12786628936	Comstock Lode	In 1859, A great amount of gold and silver was discovered in Nevada	13
12786633521	Sand Creek Massacre	an attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians, the death of more than 200 tribal members, 1859	14
12786645280	Entertainment	Baseball, wrestling, vaudville shows	15
12786657454	Wounded Knee Massacre	The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians to suppress the Ghost Dance, killed 300.	16
12786667719	Dawes Act	NAs got 160 acres of land, forced to go to school, assimilate	17
12786684977	Social Darwinism	survival of the fittest, justified wealth	18
12786692646	Gospel of Wealth	(1889) Andrew Carnegie wealthy share their riches with poor	19
12786704380	philanthropy	charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness	20
12786707868	Social Gospel	A movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation	21
12786721922	Election of 1896	Repub Gold, Demo Silver	22
12786731385	Plessy v. Ferguson	1896, "Seperate but Equal"	23
12786741071	Ida B. Wells	Wrote about lynchings and violance to blacks	24
12786746695	Booker T. Washington	Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery." vocational training for AAs	25
12786765570	Subsides	Financial support from the government	26
12786768588	Monopoly	A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller	27
12786775124	Farmer Alliances	Colored Farmer's Alliance, Southern Farmer's Alliance	28
12786790926	Temperance Movement	An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption	29
12786811068	Triangle Shirtwaist Fire	March 1911 fire in a factory that killed women and children	30
12786823754	1908	women had shorter working hours	31
12786838815	Salvation Army	1880, sought to provide food, shelter, and employment to the poor	32