Period 6 Vocabulary:
Directions: Use the textbooks (or Quizlet.com) to define the following terms. Focus on the importance
of each term.
Explain the importance of each term/event to US History:
1. Capitalism
2. Political Machines
3. Pendleton Act
4. Plessy v. Ferguson
5. Assimilation
6. Ghost Dance
7. Wounded Knee
8. Homestead Strike
9. Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
10. Interstate Commerce Act
Explain why each person is important to US History:
11. Jane Addams
12. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
13. John Rockefeller
14. W.E.B. DeBois
15. Book T. Washington
16. Andrew Carnegie
17. J.P. Morgan
18. Mark Twain
19. William Jennings Bryan
20. Ida B. Wells