A | B |
Time Zones | Developed by Railroads to keep trains running on time |
Railroads | leading consumer of manufactured goods |
Social Darwinism | idea that working hard and being smarter makes it ok to get ahead |
Pendleton Act | Ended Patronage - set up civil service |
Wounded Knee | massacre of US Soldiers that ended Indian culture |
Ghost Dance | Movement that promised the end of white man's rule |
Dawes Act | gave land to Indians for farming |
Sitting Bull | Sioux Indian Chief who defeated Custer at Little Big Horn |
immigration after 1890 | Eastern Europe, Latin/America, Asia |
Industrialization in the US | coal, iron, unlimited labor force, growing cities, increase in markets, natural resources |
Populist Reforms | increase in money supply; graduated income tax; restrictions on immigration; election of senators;8 hour work day;secret ballot |
Woolworths | First Chain Store |
Literacy Tests, Grandfather Clause, Poll Taxes, Jim Crow Laws | Laws designed to keep African Americans from voting in the South |
Dollar Diplomacy | Taft |
Plessy v Ferguson | Allowed for Legal Segregation |
Alfred Mahan | Strong Navy |
WEB Dubois and Booker T Washington | Disagreed over how to achieve equality for African Americans |
Hawaii | proved American Imperialism had spread to the Pacific Islands |
Roosevelt Corollary | gave the US police powers in the Caribbean and Latin America |
Senators | directly elected by the people - Progressive Reform |
Square Deal | Promised by TR as PRESIDENT |
New Freedom | 1912 Democratic Platform |
Eugene Debs | Socialist |