The West, Industrialization, Populism, progressives, immigration, the Spanish-American War, and the Presidents
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Transcontinental Railroad | built to connect East and West Coast |
| Reservations | places where Indians were forced to live by government |
| What forced the Indians on the reservation? | the destruction of buffalo |
| buffalo soldiers | black soldiers who fought in the West |
| homestead act | government gave 160 acres of free land if you lived/aproved for 5 years |
| Joseph Glidden | invented barbwire |
| thomas edison | improved the lightbulb and invented 1000 things |
| capitalism | private indivisuals own the buisness and run them to make a profit |
| samuel morse | invented the telegraph and morris code |
| marconi | invented wireless-radio |
| alexander graham bell | invented the telephone |
| wright brothers | 1st successful airplain |
| corporation | large company tht has a charter and can issue stock |
| john d. rockefeller | created standard oil/first monopoly; worlds first billionaire |
| andrew carnegie | made fortune in steel/gave most money to charity |
| henry ford | used moving assembly line to make first affordable car (model-T) |
| SC Textile Industry | major industry in sc in late 19 and early 20 century |
| union | organization of workers |
| strike | workers refuse to work |
| AFL-CIO | largest group of unions today |
| populists | farmers political party formed from farmers alliances |
| benjamin ryan tillman | farmers alliance in sc latr governor and senator |
| sc dispensary | created to control the consumption of alcohaul |
| prohibition | in 1915 the state went dry 5 years before the federal gov tried |
| progressives | wanted to use gov to bring about change |
| muckrakers | writers who wrote about what was wrong in america |
| upton sinclair | wrote the Jungle about the meat industry which led to the FDA |
| 19th admendment | gave women right to vote |
| richard i manning | scs most successful progressives gov. |
| what were the progressives achievments? | 1. workers consenpation 2. child labor laws 3. better hospitals 4. DOT |
| anna pollitzer | from sc headed the womens rights movement |
| old immigration | came form Northern/western Europe |
| new immigration | came from Eastern/Southern Europe 25 million |
| Statue of Liberty | given as a gift from France |
| The great migration | blacks from the south went North for better jobs and to escape jim crow |
| imperialism | gain territory beyond your border |
| alaska | bought from russia for 7.2 million. |
| yellow journalism | write lies to sell papers |
| uss maine | destructio to cuba led the us to declare war on spain |
| spanish american war | shortest war us fought spain to free cuba |
| guam, wake, puerto rico, and the phillipines | were taken by us for bases at end of spanish american war |
| theodore roosevelt and the rough riders | became heros in short spanish american war |
| panama canal | by a treaty with panama the us built the canal to connect the atlantic and pacific ocean |
| rutherford b. hayes | (r) compromise of 1877 made him president |
| james garfield | (r) 2nd pres to be killed by a man who didnt get a job |
| chester arthur | (r) became president among garfields death who supported civil service reform |
| pendelton act | created by federal civilservice and ended the spoils system |
| grover cleveland | (d) served 2 non consecutive terms |
| wiliam mckinley | pres in spanish american war, 3rd pres to be killed |
| theodore roosevelt | (r) pres after mckinley waskilled; a progressive, trust buster (supp fda) |
| william howard taft | (r) progressive, largest pres ever elected |
| woodrow wilson | last progressive pres in ww1 |
| name 4 men killed in office in order | lincoln, garfield, mckinley, and kennedy(jfk) |
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