Terms Review VII
Expansion and
Industrialization
What law abolished Native
American tribes and gave each family 160 acres to farm?
Dawes Act
Who was the owner of the steel monopoly? He also believed wealthy people needed to make society better.
Andrew Carnegie
Who was the owner of
Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
This term describes business owners who acquired monopolies through exploitation and ruthlessness.
Robber Barons
What was the social movement which championed the causes of the oppressed in society?
Progressive Movement
What amendment gave
Congress the power to collect taxes on businesses and individuals?
16 th Amendment
What amendment allowed a state’s residents, not the state legislatures, to elect senators?
17 th Amendment
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
19 th Amendment
What amendment prohibited the making, selling, or transporting of alcoholic beverages?
18 th Amendment
What term refers to the separation of the races?
Segregation
This organization was devoted to ending segregation, discrimination, and ensuring equal economic and political opportunities for blacks?
NAACP
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People
What term refers to the flight of blacks from racial persecutions in the South to cities of the North and the
West?
Black Exodus
What act, passed in 1924, significantly reduced the number of immigrants from
Eastern and Southern Europe?
It also prohibited immigration from Asia.
National Origins Act
What term refers to a farming cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in the purchasing and selling of farm machinery and products?
The Grange
This is the belief that only the strongest businesses, people, or nations deserve to survive.
Social Darwinism
Who was the writer of children’s books which idealized gaining wealth through hard work?
Horatio Alger
This was Andrew Carnegie’s idea that people with wealth had a responsibility to use it to help the poor.
Gospel of Wealth
This term refers to when workers refuse to work until a set of conditions are met?
Strike
Who was president from
1901-1909?
He initiated progressive reforms in the fields of nature conservation and business.
Theodore Roosevelt
What was the title of Upton
Sinclair’s book exposing the bad working conditions and dangerous food quality in the meat processing industry?
The Jungle
What cable was laid in 1866 that relayed messages from
Europe to the United States and vice versa using the telegraph?
Transatlantic Cable
Who was the founder of
Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?
He accepted segregation but pushed for equal economic opportunities for blacks.
Booker T. Washington
Who was the student of
Booker T. Washington who gained fame for his research with peanuts, soybeans, and cotton?
George Washington Carver
What group of black intellectuals outlined an agenda for black progress that was adopted by the NAACP?
The Niagara Movement
What Supreme Court decision allowed segregated facilities for blacks and whites?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What act, passed in 1882, prohibited Chinese from legally immigrating to the
United States?
Chinese Exclusion Act
What term is used to describe when one company is the only supplier of a particular good or service?
Monopoly
What term refers to parcels of land set aside by the federal government for the Native
Americans?
Reservation
What was the title of the book written by Ida Tarbell exposing the abuses of the Standard Oil
Company?
History of the Standard Oil
Company
This man was a reformer and champion of coeducational, nonsectarian public education.
Horace Mann
This movement was designed to address the concerns of farmers and other political reformers.
Populist Movement
What term was used to describe intellectuals who wrote stories concerning the abuses of big businesses on workers and on consumers?
Muckrakers
What President, elected in
1912, designed a reform program that ensured competition in the marketplace while keeping business out of the government’s control?
Woodrow Wilson
What act passed in 1914 ensured that businesses could not use anti-trust laws to break up labor unions?
Clayton Act
What federal agency was established in 1914 to investigate companies for unfair business practices?
Federal Trade Commission
This school was established by Booker T. Washington. It was a school for blacks that provided training in the industrial and agricultural fields.
Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington’s speech at the Atlanta
Exposition in 1895 that explained his philosophy of maintaining social separation of the races.
Atlanta Compromise
Who was the black intellectual who opposed Booker T.
Washington’s acceptance of segregation, a founder of the
NAACP and editor of its magazine, The Crisis?
W.E.B. Dubois
An author (muckraker) who exposed the abuses of the
Standard Oil Company in her book The History of the
Standard Oil Company.
Ida Tarbell