Quiz #2 Study Guide- Ward @ VC
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- Native of Scotland, Made way to Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Powerful steel Magnate.
- Andrew Carnegie
- Process for creating steel using oxygen.
- Bessemer process
- Ruthless Penn. industrialist, monopolized coal and coje production, reduced workers wages and hired 300 brutal Pinkertons.
- Henry Frick
- Method of controlling and monopolizing, used by leaders of big business in 1890's.
- Vertical Integration
- Derogatory term, leaders of big buisness.
- Robber Barrons
- Ultra-Wealthy ind. Banker, monopolized industry, fixed rates
- J. P. Morgan
- Invented 1st telephone
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Famous inventer, hired by Wesern union.
- Thomas Alva Edison
- Came to control 90% of all refing capabilities, fully integrated oil company.
- John D. Rokefeller
- Restricted the formation of Trusts
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- she won Nobel Peace Prize for "settlement house"
- Jane Addams
- Largest Womens Organization of its day
- Womens Christian Temperance Union(WCTU)
- Railroad laborer, organized several unions, organized Socialist Democratic Party, ran unsuccessfully for president 5 times.
- Eugene V. Debs
- This company hired thugs to break up labor stikes.
- Pinkertons National Detective Agency
- Knigts of Labor lost its support when a bomb disrupted this Chicago location.
- Haymarket Square/Haymarket Riots
- This Union succeeded in gaining a respect and approval for labor unions.
- American Federation of Labor
- He was present for the assassinations of 3 presidents: Lincoln (his dad), Garfield and McKinley
- Robert Todd Lincoln
- John O'Sullivan coined this phrase, used to justify US expansion
- Manifest Destiny
- US "warhawk" asserted that Naval Power is crucial to the nations success internationally.
- Alfred T. Mahan
- These native Phillipine freedom fighters fought alongside the US then turned on them.
- Filipino nationalists
- Judicial institution created by US to mitigate problems of anti-US sentiments in Central America.
- Central American Court of Justice
- In assertion of US dominance in the Western Hemisphere, this man stated that "the carribean is our bathtub"
- William Jennings Bryan
- Led by Theodore Roosevelt, 1st Volunteer Cavalry Regiment.
- Rough Riders
- Famous all-Black Regiment
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Connected Atlantic Ocean with Pacific Ocean at Panama. What is term for this artificial waterway?
- isthmian canal
- Border conflict between Venezuela and Great Britian
- Venezuela Boreder Dispute
- This treaty granted US full right to the Panama Canal Zone
- Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
- The Culebra Cut on the Panama Canal crosses this geographical feature
- Continential Divide
- To sell newspapers, stories not founded in fact
- "yellow journalism"
- 3 month war, US gained control over Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines.
- Spanish-American War
- Cuban writer, devoted to Cuban independence, while earning a living writing for US periodicals.
- Jose Marti
- US method of MILITARY coercing foregin nations to capitulate American demands
- "gunboat diplomacy"
- This US method of MONETARY coercing foreign nations to capitulate American demands
- "dollar diplomacy"
- Pres. Theodore Roosevelt won Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japaneese War with the...
- Treaty Of Portsmouth
- Legal assertion made in relation to the Monroe Doctrine justified US intervention in Latin America
- Roosevelt Corollary
- Location where the Wright Brothers made first sucessful airplane flight.
- Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
- Name of Wright Brothers fisrt motor powered airplane.
- Flyer
- First person to cross the Atlantic non-stop
- Charles Lindbergh
- First woman to fly non-stop across Atlantic and between Hawaii and California
- Amelia Earhart
- innovator of assembly line automobile production created air car called the "flying flivver"
- Henry Ford
- Lawyer and progreesive social reformer achieved gains for women and children laborers
- Florence Kelley
- This reformer took advantage of the political and corporate scandals that plauged DC to successfully lobby for the passage of "obscenity laws" with regard to US mail
- Anthony Comstock
- She was an advocate and educator of birth control, first president of Planned Parenthood
- Margret Sanger
- Known as founder of American Psychology, formulated some ideas in his philosophy of Pragmatism
- William James
- Harvard law professor became known as the "Great Dissenter" for his progressive opinions in a conservative dominated court
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- New York Harbor, primary entry point for european immigrants. Decommisioned in 1943.
- Ellis Island
- Famous American Photographer perpetuated American rasist notions of Anglo ascendancy amidst the "vanishing" of the "indian race" thru beautiful portrayals of what he thought the were once like
- Edward S. Curtis
- Southern fundamentalist minister and auther glorified the KKK in his book, which was madeinto a film.
- Thomas Dixon
- Pres. Roosevelt sparked hig criticism when he invited this african-american friend to a white house dinner
- Booker T. Washington
- This African-American intellectual was the first black person to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. He co-founded the NAACP
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Built on earlier institution, this agency of the Department of the Interior was created by Pres. Woodrow Wilson
- National Park Service
- Pres. Wilson sent this US general into Mexico to find Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution
- John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing
- The name for the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Austro-Hungary
- Triple Alliance
- Name for the "Allies" (Great Britian, France and Russia)
- Triple Entente
- 128 Americans killed when a German "U-boat" sank this liner
- Lusitania
- Intercepted message from Germany to Mexico, asking for an alliance
- Zimmerman Telegram
- This Federal legislation required all men 18 to 45 to enter the draft
- Selective Service Act
- WWI came to an end with this document
- Armistice
- Irish immigrant, accountant for Chase Bank, career cut short by draft, died in training
- Michael J. Morris
- US contingment of the Allies fighting in WWI were known as the
- American Expeditionary Forces
- Newly corrupted bank system increased money supply during WWI
- Federal Reserve System
- US financed its role in WWI by the sales
- Liberty Bonds
- Pacifist leader, head of the National American Women Suffrage Association, later organized League of Women Voters
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- This ammendment legalized women voting
- 19th Ammendment
- Pers. Wilson went to Paris to take part in the neotiations of the...
- Treaty of Versailles
- Famous progressive era lawyer defended in the "monkey trial"
- Clarence Darrow
- This revision to the constitution outlawed the consumption of alcohol
- 18th Ammendment
- Reorganized racist group to target not only blacks, but catholics and jews as well
- KKK
- Sec. of the Interior in the Harding Presidential Cabinet, received money to allow big companies accsess to the nations oil reserves. Name this event.
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Pres. Harding had sexual realations with this younger woman in a coat closet adgacent to the oval office.
- Nan Britton