US history Unit 5 Exam
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 great railroad strike | recession-baltimore and ohio railroads cut wages; rairoad workers walked off jobs; eventually affected 2/3 railways; militia is called out; president Hayes sends federal troops; pointed to need for peacefull means to stop labor disputes |
| Homestead act | Carnegie's steel mill in Homestead--managed by anti-union Henry Flick; employees were from a union and when the contract was going to expire frick proposed wage cuts and jailed those who opposed; Pinkerton to bring in new workers; strikers halted pinkerton workers and militia used to stop |
| Pullman strike | American Railway Union (Pullman Palace car Co); wage cuts without cuts in rent and food prices at company houses; Workers refuse to handle railcars built by pullman; pullman locks workers out of building; government gets court injunction to end strike because it interferes with shipment of US mail; ARU leaders jailed and lose membership |
| nativism | extreme dislike of immigrants by native born people; surfaced first when irish came then against Asians, Jews, eastern Europeans; feared the influx of catholics and that would come and take jobs |
| Gospel of wealth | term used by businessmen that their massive wealth was a social benefit for all; more accepted than social darwinism (but same thing); wealth no longer bad and viewed as a sign of God's approval; should not help poor |
| "Doc" Ames | wanted to become dominator of Minneapolis; gives free health care and wins mayor; becomes corrupt and takes over (fire police squad) eventually arrested |
| Bossism | cycle where person gains immense power (mayor) and becomes corrupt by having total control (charges and threatens people) |
| Civil Service Act | ends bossism; need to test to get a government job in an area |
| Williiam Boss Tweed | tammany Hall political machine; corruptness led to prison |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | african american wants to sit in white railcar; court deems segregation is constitutional as long as equal |
| Brown vs Board of Education | seperation but equal is not plausible; case against bussing children to far off schools |
| Booker T, Washington | african american who believed racism would stop when african americans gained labor skills (need to contribute to society) and opened a school of agriculture |
| WEB Du Bios | american american who graduated from Harvard; believed education was key to ending racism; pushed for legal rights; created NAAA |
| populism | farmer-agriculture movement |
| cultadomescticity and spheres | women were being mothers, wived but being stuck; continual circle |
| gilded age | age of prosperous economic growth (makes fun of word) |
| seneca falls convention | women's right convention; drafted declaration of sentiments |
| Declaration of sentiments | women's document; Elizabeth Stanton; argued for equal rights for women |
| What is the profound economic development of an early nineteenth century banking system? | national bank |
| Republicans believed French to be opposed due to... | close ties with England (false) |
| New france economy based on... | fur |
| Articles of confederation did not ______powers | seperate |
| why did France not help in War of 1812? | XYZ affair and didn't help in French revolution |
| Who was the judge overseer in the dred scot case and what did he rule? | Chief Taney; unconstitutional |
| How did reconstruction fail? | still discrimination |
| What was Lincoln's plan also called? | 10% plan |
| Why did African americans go west? | sharecrop; to own farms (lean crop) |
| Dawes act aimed to _____ native americans.. | americanize (assimilate) |
| Johnson's plan did not call for... | attack only when battle would inflict heavy casualties |
| KKK: how did republican government try to stop them? | created policies that resulted in their arrest |
| When were the first shots in Civil War? | fort sumter |
| elastic/ necessary clauses | government can use laws in constitution in order to solve things |
| populism | movement to raise farmers power in government |
| Who divided up the Compromise of 1850 to pass it? | Clay |
| Bloody kansas | Government sends troops to destroy the illiegal antislavery capital (topeca) |
| What kind of emancipation does Lincoln support? | gradual (over 35 years) |
| What Did Lincold originally want to do with the slaves? | send them back to Liberia |
| 10% plan | Lincol wants 10% of eligible southern voters to take pledge of allegiance to north (union) and could reinstate government with union values |
| Why did a controversy over the regained southern land exist? | Congress-control territories; president-control states; disagreed whether regained lands were states or territories |
| What happened to the 10% plan? | Lincoln died so never when into effect |
| How was Johnson impeached? | tenure office act (fired a member of government without permission) |
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