History Part III

50 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Society based on farming
Agrarian
This Scottish-born American industrialist made his fortune in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
These are laws and regulations designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices
Antitrust
This was the classic statement on race relations by Booker T. Washington, made in a speech at the Atlanta Exposition (1895). He asserted that vocational education, which gave blacks a chance for econominic security, was more valuable than social equality or political office
Atlanta Compromise
This was a US educator and reformer. He became perhaps the most prominent African American leader of his time/encouraged blacks to learn a trade & founded the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
This is the nickname gien to black soldiers with the US Cavalry who helped to spread the US westward in the decades following the Civil War
Buffalo Soldiers
This law, passed in 1882, forbade any laborers from China to enter the United States for 10 years
Chinese Exclusion Act
New technoligies that helped spur and contribute to the westward expansion and Industrial Revolution
Communication Revolution
This is the central banking authority in the US which supervises commercial banks by monitoring accounts and controlling interest rates/Wilson changed the banking system in the US in 1913 by establishing this
Federal Reserve
US Cavalry General whose unwise and reckless conduct got him and over 200 soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry killed at the Battle Little Big Horn
George Custer
A Native American movement in the 1890's that believed a ritualistic ceremony would result in the reanimation of Indian dead and the defeat of the white invaders into the west
Ghost Dance
This was the hypothesis that wealth was the great end and aim of man, the one thing needful/promoted by Andrew Carnegie - stated that wealthy should give back riches to the community
Gospel of Wealth
This was a group of American farmers who united in the late 19th century to lobby congress to pass laws protecting them from unfair business practices of large industry
Grangers
This was a US author of inspiration adventure stories for boys; virtue and hard work overcome poverty/wriote many financial stories promotring rags to riches theme
Horatio Alger
This was a series of economic & mechanical changes of Western Europe in the 18th-20th centuries
Industrial Revolution