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43 Cards in this Set
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Union Pacific Railroad |
-1st Transcontinental railroad in the USItunited the East & the West -1st National Business PromontoryPoint, Utah is where the Railroad met |
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John D Rockefeller |
-Started out working for the Railroad and then went into the oil business
-Oil – Lighting, Heating and Lubrication -93 % of oil was under the control of Rockefeller *his oil company was Standard Oil & Trust – he invented the Trust *he was a master of horizontal integration – good at acquiring businesses similar to his |
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Andrew Carnegie |
immigrated from Scotland
TinyIndustrial Giant (was only 5’4”) Workedin concession car for the railroad Gotinto the Steel Business Master of Vertical Integration(control of everything that can touch your business Established Company Towns *the business owns practicallyeverything in the town *causes wage slavery |
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JP Morgan |
-Born into wealth (investment banker)
-Flipped business, bought banks, railways then sells -So wealthy gov. sought after him to help stop the war -Morgan wanted to buy Carnegie steel -Morgan renames to U.S. Steel after purchase from Carnegie |
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Thomas Edison/Menlo Park |
-Famous for light bulb
-Goal was to come out with a new technological every three years. - Menlo Park is his greatest technological contribution – it was the world’s first invention factory |
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Nikola Tesla |
Was brought infrom Europe to create an AC motor and was offered a $5000 bonus but was onlypaid $300
Edison& Tesla split and Tesla takes all of his AC stuff and goes to Westinghouse |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
-Telephone
-Metal detector -went to work at a school for deaf -More jobs create due to all the components of the phone |
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USS Maine |
Americanwarship that exploded in the Cuban port of Havana
Itwas an accident but war-hungry Americans blamed Spain Thisgot us into the Spanish/American war |
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William Randolph Hearst |
Newspaper ownerwho wanted us to go to war
Intentionallymisreported the explosion of the USS Maine |
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Rough Riders and San Juan Hill |
-Was Colonel Roosevelt's mounted infantry -3 months of fighting and it was over -The key to the city were the hills, San Juan, Kettle and El Carney Hills. twice Roosevelt protects them from ambush -San Juan, most Americans killed -Rough Riders,Buffalo Soldiers took the hill |
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Theodore Roosevelt Place in Progressive Era |
-Using the fed gov. to advance the interest of the people -was first progressive President -Began with his presidency ended in WW1 |
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William Howard Taft Places in Progressive Era |
-Roosevelt Sec. of War, was really not a progressive historians say -Progressive era retreats while he is President |
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Woodrow Wilson Places in Progressive Era |
-Most progressive president |
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Panama Canal |
-Owned by Columbia first
-French Company started the canal -French sold to US |
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Philippe Bunau-Varilla |
takes the USSNashville to the coast of Panama and reads a Declaration of Independence –Panama becomes independent and 10 million plus 250K per year goes to thePanamanians Heis the 1st ambassador to Panama |
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Roosevelt Corollary |
-addition to Monroe doctrine
-Positive, US become "police" for the world -makes the world more stable -Negative, we appointed ourselves as sheriff which created hard feelings |
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Portmouth Treaty |
-Russia/Japan war, Japan was doing well against Russia
-We didn't want either to be powerful -Roosevelt steps in and invites both to Portsmouth N.H creates treaty which ends war -Roosevelt receives Noble Peace Prize because of it |
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Square Deal/UMW Strike |
-The person who risked it all should get the money
-Miners strikefor 5 monthsthreatens to nationalize the minesif they won’t deal -reachesa deal for 10 hours/day with 10% raises with a promise of yearly raises afterthat |
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Sherman Antitrust Act |
-Bust up monopolies (Trust Busting)
-To vague in its wording -Before Roosevelt it was used against labor instead of big business |
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Upton Sinclair/The Jungle |
-a book about meat packaging
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Meat Inspection Act |
-Signed into law same year as book -Sanitary packaging -Dept. of Ag was in charge of it |
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Pure Food and Drug Act |
-Required them to list ingredient -Included make-up |
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US forest Service/Gifford Pinchot |
-Created US forest service -Pinchot was head of the forest service |
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Ballinger-Pinchot Affair |
-Taft fires Pinchot
-Ballinger was Sec. of Interior(nat. resources) -Pinchot hears Ballinger wants to strip the Nat. Forest |
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New Freedom |
-State gov. instead of Fed to make decisions
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Clayton Antitrust Act |
-It listed specific illegal activities that business couldnt do
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Adamson Act |
-Limited the number of hours railroad workers could work 8hrs.
-Railroad only |
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Underwood-Simmons Act/Tariff |
-Lower rate on goods
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Federal Trade Commission Act |
-Gov. agency watch dog on big business. if they suspect a business doing illegal they can shut them down |
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16th Amendment |
2/3rds of state need to agree to get law pushed through |
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17th Amendment |
Called for popular election of US senators
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18th Amendment |
Established prohibition of alcohol
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19th Amendments |
-Women right to vote
-Wyoming the first state |
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Laissez-Faire |
- A French phrasemeaning “let them do as they will” -Thiswas a policy that opposed government interference in the economy -Encouragedcorrupt practices by Big Business |
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Whom the Knights of Labor permitted to be a part of their union |
-Membersincluded all who had ever worked for wages, except lawyers, doctors, bankersand those who sold liquor. -Itwas one big union of all workers, skilled and unskilled, men and women,immigrants and African Americans |
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Terence Powderly |
-Mayor orScranton, PA -Becamehead of the Knights of Labor - Knightsof Labor owed their greatest growth to strikes that occurred under hisleadership from 100k members more than 700k members |
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Haymarket Riot and its impact on the knights of Labor |
-Violentuprising in Haymarket Square, Chicago – police clashed with labor demonstratorsin the aftermath of a bombing.
-Workerswere striking for an eight hour work day -Thisled to the decline of the Knights of Labor |
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Samuel Gompers |
-headof the American Federation of Labor -The AmericanFederation of Labor would replace the Knights of Labor as the nation’s leadingunion. |
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Henry Clay Frick |
-CompanyChairman for Andrew Carnegie’s company -Hiredthe Pinkerton’s to protect the Homestead Steel mill near Pittsburgh, PA. Carnegiewent on a long trip to Scotland while Frick handled the Homestead Steel Strike |
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Mississippi Plan |
Seriesof State constitutional amendments that sought to disenfranchise black votersand was quickly adopted by nine other southern states |
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Plessy v. Ferguson, What the decision was? |
“separate butequal” was the underlying principle behind segregation that was legitimized bythe Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. -Itupheld segregation |
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Booker T Washington's views on how to advance African Americans |
-Founder of theTuskegee Institute, a historically black university -Nation’smost prominent African American leader -UrgedAfrican Americans to begin “at the bottom” as well educated farmers, not associal activists |
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W.E.B. DuBois views on how to advance African Americans |
-A fierceadvocate for black education and civil rights
-Encourageda strategy of “ceaseless agitation” directed at ensuring the right to vote andwinning civil equality. -Hada militant strategy. |
