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?

16th Amendment

What amendment allowed a state’s residents, not the state legislatures, to elect senators?

17th Amendment

What amendment gave women the right to vote?

19th Amendment

What amendment prohibited the making, selling, or

transporting of alcoholic beverages?

18th 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