Unit 5: Transforming the Nation
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1.
Andrew
Carnegie
4.
Collective
Bargaining
A Scottish-American industrialist who led the
enormous expansion of the American steel
industry in the late 19th century.
2.
Booker T.
Washington
Process in which union leaders negotiate with
factory owners on behalf of workers in a
particular business or industry for better wages
and working conditions.
5.
Corporation
6.
Dawes Act
African American leader from the late 1800's
until his death form 1915; founded Tuskegee
Institute in Alabama; encouraged African
Americans to learn trades and become
economically self-sufficient before calling for
equal rights.
3.
Clayton
Antitrust
Act
A business owned by stockholders who share in
its profits but are not personally responsible for
its debts
1887 law that divided Native American land
into private family plots. Government's attempt
to assimilate Native Americans into American
life.
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8.
9.
Direct
Primary
An election in which voters choose party
nominees.
Federal
Reserve
(FED)
The central bank of the United States
established in 1913; it's functions include
regulation of the money supply and adjustment
of interest rates
Granger
Movement
Political movement that grew out of the Patrons
of Husbandry, an educational and social
organization for farmers founded in 1867; had
its greatest success in the Midwest of the 1870s,
lobbying for government control of railroad and
grain elevator rates and establishing farmers'
cooperatives.
10.
Haymarket
Riot
14.
Jane
Addams
A demonstration of striking laborers in Chicago
in 1886 that turned violent, killing a dozen
people and injuring over a hundred.
11.
Homestead
Act
Activist and co-founder of one of the best known
settlement houses, Hull House in Chicago
(1889), and recipient of the 1931 Nobel Peace
Prize for her work in the peace movement.
15.
John D.
Rockefeller
1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone
willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged
westward migration.
12.
Initiative
13.
Jacob Riis
A procedure by which voters can propose a law
An American industrialist who founded the
Standard Oil Company.
16.
A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who
pointed out the terrible conditions of the
tenement houses of the big cities where
immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He
wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.
J.P.
Morgan
Banker and financier who merged Edison
Electric and Thompson-Houston Electric
company to form General Electric. He also
financed the creation of the US steel corporation
in 1901 and is credited for saving the US
national economy
17.
The Jungle
21.
Nativism
A policy of favoring native-born individuals over
foreign-born ones
22.
This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out
the abuses of the meat packing industry. The
book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat
Inspection Act.
18.
Political
Machine
Labor
Union
A local organization that controls the city or
county government to such an extent that it can
reward whole neighborhoods, wards, and
precincts, or other groups with benefits, such as
jobs and government programs, in return for
supporting the party's candidates.
An organization of workers that tries to improve
working conditions, wages, and benefits for its
members
19.
Monopoly
20.
Muckraker
A market in which there is only one seller for a
product or service.
A group of investigative reporters who pointed
out the abuses of big business and the corruption
of urban politics; included Frank Norris (The
Octopus) Ida Tarbell (A history of the standard
oil company) Lincoln Steffens (the shame of the
cities) and Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
23.
Populist
Party
A political party founded in 1892 calling for
policies to help farmers and working people,
such as government ownership of railroads and
coinage of silver; also known as the People's
Party
24.
Progressive
Era
A movement in the early 1900's that tried to get
the government to solve social and ecconomic
problems caused by the Industrial Revolution.
The first time the government really tries to
regulate business practices and the economy.
25.
Recall
29.
Secret
Ballot
A procedure for removing a public official
from office by a vote of the people.
26.
Referrendum
27.
Reservation
Voters do not reveal who they vote for or how they
vote on an issue because their decision is made in
private. This keeps the election fair and free from
threat or intimidation.
Allows citizens a vote to approve or reject a
bill proposed by the legistlature
30.
31.
Sherman
Antitrust
Act
(1890) First federal action against monopolies, it
was signed into law by Harrison and was
extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trustbusting. However, it was initially misused against
labor unions
Square
Deal
By 1860's Indians were forced onto separate
territories specifically set aside by the US
government for Indian use. Not able to roam
free the plains Indians faced suppression,
poverty and ultimately death.
28.
Robert M.
LaFollette
Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive agenda,
expressed his beleif that the needs of workers,
buisness, and consumers should be balanced and
called for limiting the power of trusts, promoting
public health and safety and improving working
conditions
32.
Tenement
Progressive Wisconsin governor whose
agenda of reform was known as the
Wisconsin Idea
A multifamily urban dwelling, usually
overcrowded and unsanitary
33.
Theodore
Roosevelt
37.
Urbanization
Growth of cities
38.
26th President of the Untied States;
remembered as a champion of Progressive
reform, a "trustbuster," and a
conservationist
34.
W.E.B.
DuBois
Transcontinental
Railroad
First African American to earn Ph.D. from
Harvard; encouraged African Americans to
resist segregation and other forms
discrimination; helped create the NAACP in
1910.
Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah,
it linked the eastern railroad system with
California's railroad system,
revolutionizing transportation in the west
35.
Trust
36.
Upton Sinclair
A group of corporations that unite in
order to reduce competition and control
prices in a business or an industry.
Muckraker who shocked the nation when
he published The Jungle, a novel that
revealed gruesome details about the meat
packing industry in Chicago.
39.
William
Howard Taft
27th President of the United States; he
angered progressives by moving cautiously
toward reforms and by supporting the PayneAldrich Tariff. He lost Roosevelt's support
and was defeated for a second term.
40.
William Jennings
Bryan
Democratic and Populist candidate for President in 1896 who advocated a policy of free silver
41.
Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the United States; a Progressive who signed the Clayton Antitrust Act and created the
Federal Reserve