History of US Study Guide Book 8
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Turning Iron into Steel | allowed for railroad lines and skycrapers to be built |
| Monopoly (not the game) | a single corporation which controls a particular business |
| Frederick Law Olmstead | Landscape architect who designed NYC's Central Park |
| Andrew Carnegie | Scotsman who became a millionaire in steel |
| J. P. Morgan | Richest and most powerful banker in the US at the end of the 19th century. |
| Elisha Otis | Developed the first safe elevator |
| Gustave Eiffel | Developed the framework (skeleton) for the Statue of Liberty |
| Louis Sullivan | Inventor of the skyscraper |
| L. Frank Baum | Author of The Wizard of Oz |
| Frederick Bartholdi | Sculptor of the Statue of Liberty |
| John Roebling | He and his son build the Brooklyn Bridge |
| John D. Rockefeller | Became a millionaire controlling oil, drilling, refining and delivery |
| Middle Class French | Donated most of the money for the Statue of Liberty |
| How Statue of Liberty publicized? | Names of every donor were listed in Pulitzer's newspaper. And certain pieces of the Statue of Liberty were on public display |
| Weakness | the main flaw shared by the 9 presidents following the Civil War |
| People's Party (Populist Party) | Political party formed in late 19th early 20th century by poor whites, poor blacks, and farmers |
| Causes/Goals of the People's/Populist party | 1-secret ballots 2-women's right to vote 3-direct election of senators 4-US gov't loans to farmers 5-active role by gov't to protect citizens economically 6-US gov't protection against unsafe goods 7-US gov't protection against unfair business practices |
| William Jennings Bryan | Ran for president as both a Populist and a Democrat in 1896 - destroying the Populist party. |
| Catalog purchasing | allowed people in rural areas to buy goods only available in cities. (Montgomery Ward, Sears and Roebuck) |
| Effect of industrialization on where people lived | more people started living in cities |
| Great Chicago Fire | 1871, destroyed much of Chicago |
| Union | organization of workers who unite to influence their employer, usually for better wages or better working conditions |
| American Federation of Labor (AF of L) VS. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) | AFof L members were skilled workers, IWW membership was open to any worker |
| muckraker | investgative journalist |
| yellow journalism | untrue news stories designed to sell newspapers |
| USS Maine | exploded off the coast of Cuba and brought US into the Spanish American War |
| Territories gained by US as a result of Spanish-American War | Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Wake Island |
| Panama Canal | Its construction reduced travel time for shipping goods by water from east to west coast of US. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President of US who oversaw construction of the Panama Canal |
| Teddy Bear | named for President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt because the story came out that he didn't want to shoot a poor defenseless bear. |
| Samuel Gompers | Founded American Federation of Labor |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of US during WWI |
| Mother Jones | lost her children and husband to disease, became an advocate for workers' rights and safer working conditions |
| Jane Addams | Founder of Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants and the poor |
| John Muir | Naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club |
| Wilbur Wright | He and his brother invented the airplane |
| Helen Keller | became deaf and blind as an infant. Later learned to communicate and became powerful social advocate |
| Henry Ford | Developed an inexpensive automobile |
| Sam McClure | magazine publisher who provided a place for muckrakers to present their work |
| Big Bill Hayward | Founder of the Industrial Workers of the World |
| 1906 San Francisco disasters | First there was an earthquake, then massive fire |
| Progressive Party | Also called the Bull Moose Party |
| How did US get involved in WWI? | German navy subs (u-boats) kept attacking civilian and military ships at sea |
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