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Robert Ezekiel HY 121-1E Final ExamStudy Guide
Trusts - correct answer ✔✔During the late 19th century, combinations of supposedly competing
businesses under a single directorship were known as?
The Haymarket Affair - correct answer ✔✔a violent clash in 1886 between union supporters and Chicago
police that divided and weakened the labor movement
Social Darwinism - correct answer ✔✔Belief developed based upon current biological science and
sociology. This belief was used to justify wealthy inequality, was known as?
Battle of Little Bighorn - correct answer ✔✔In 1876, Indian leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated
Custer's troops who tried to force them back on to the reservation, Custer and all his men died
The Dawes Act - correct answer ✔✔An act that removed Indian land from tribal possesion, redivided it,
and distributed it among individual Indian families. Designed to break tribal mentalities and promote
individualism.
The Farmers Alliance - correct answer ✔✔The Populist movement of the late 19th century, sometimes
called the People's Party, first emerged from a large agrarian citizen's movement, originally founded in
Texas. What was the name of that original movement?
William Jennings Bryan - correct answer ✔✔As the Populist movement began seeking political power
and influence, it began attempting to form coalitions with various groups. The most successful was with
the Democratic party in 1896. The coalition nominated a young congressman from Nebraska for
President, who gave the highly influential "cross of gold" speech. What was this presidential nominee's
name?
The New South - correct answer ✔✔In the aftermath of Reconstruction the Southern economy rested on
an agricultural system based on single crop farming, and a lack of industrialization. Several Southern
advocates, most notable Atlanta's Henry Grady, argued for a more commercialized and industrial
, economic focus, along with a diversification of agricultural products. By what name was this economic
concept known?
Booker T. Washington - correct answer ✔✔In the face of tremendous pressure from both legal and extra-
legal racism, African-Americans in the late 19th had to decide how best to defend their communities, as
well as prosper economically. In the "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, a major leader in the African-
American community advocated a focus on internal economic improvement, racial uplift, educational
expansion (especially vocational training), and a cessation of agitation for political equality. What was
the name of this African-American community leader?
Plessy v. Ferguson - correct answer ✔✔In 1896 the supreme court made a landmark decision that
declared that racially segregated structures and facilities did not violate the constitution as long as they
were "separate but equal." What was the name of this court case?
Muckrakers - correct answer ✔✔As Americans began to focus more on life in the cities, a new type of
social critic began to emerge. These critics, whose number included journalists, writers, photographers,
and artists worked to expose societal problems they saw in American life. What term, which later came
into widespread use, did Theodore Roosevelt negatively use to refer to them?
Fordism - correct answer ✔✔At the beginning of the 20th century, many began linking the new
industrial economy with the idea of a mass-consumption based society. Henry Ford, the head of the
most effective automotive company in America, devised a system that linked mass-production, the
assembly line, and higher wages for workers in order to make them consumers of the very products they
manufactured. By what name is this system known as?
Pragmatism - correct answer ✔✔One of the central ideas of Progressivism was that reform was possible
as long as the correct knowledge was collected, and the will to act was possessed. This idea was
influence heavily by a philosophy that emerged in the United States at the time, advocated by people
such as John Dewey, that stated that institutions must be judged by their results, not on their adherence
to tradition or dogma. This philosophy was known by what name?
Hull House - correct answer ✔✔One of the most important centers for advocacy for social reform during
the Progressive era were settlement houses. These social work charities sent workers, mostly women,
directly into poverty stricken communities in order to help solve issues effecting them. Founded by Jane
Addams in Chicago, what was the name of the most famous settlement house?
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