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US History Louisiana EOC Review Terms Study Guide Solutions ku klux klan - ANSWER-a secret society of white Southerners in the United States, later grew in the Northeast and Midwest opposing immigrants, Jews and Catholics exodusters - ANSWER-African Americans who moved from post reconstruction ...

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ku klux klan - ANSWER✔✔-a secret society of white Southerners in the United States, later grew in the

Northeast and Midwest opposing immigrants, Jews and Catholics

exodusters - ANSWER✔✔-African Americans who moved from post reconstruction South to Kansas.

fourteenth amendment - ANSWER✔✔-made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States"

citizens of the country

fifteenth amendment - ANSWER✔✔-The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied

or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of

servitude.

sharecropping - ANSWER✔✔-System in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in

return for a portion of their crops

sharecroppers - ANSWER✔✔-people who rent a plot of land from another person, and farm it in

exchange for a share of the crop

George Custer - ANSWER✔✔-United States general who was killed along with all his command by the

Sioux at the battle of Little Bighorn (1839-1876)

49ers - ANSWER✔✔-People who rushed to california in 1849 for gold.

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national Grange of Patrons of Husbandry - ANSWER✔✔-This organization better known as the Grange,

was organized in 1867 by Oliver H. Kelley; its objective was to enhance the lives of isolated farmers

through social, educational, and fraternal activities; the Grangers gradually raised their goals from

individual self-improvement of the farmer' collective plight

Interstate Commerce Commission - ANSWER✔✔-a former independent federal agency that supervised

and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states

Homestead Act of 1862 - ANSWER✔✔-this allowed a settler to acquire 160 acres by living on it for five

years, improving it and paying about $30

Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 - ANSWER✔✔-dissolved many tribes as legal entities, wiped out tribal

ownership of land, and set up individual Indian family heads with 160 free acres. If the Indians behaved

like "good white settlers" then they would get full title to their holdings as well as citizenship. The Dawes

Act attempted to assimilate the Indians with the white men. The Dawes Act remained the basis of the

government's official Indian policy until the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.

Plessy v. Ferguson - ANSWER✔✔-A 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered

segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal

Jim Crow laws - ANSWER✔✔-Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes

limited black voting rights

Interstate Commerce Act - ANSWER✔✔-Established the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) -

monitors the business operation of carriers transporting goods and people between states - created to

regulate railroad prices

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long drives - ANSWER✔✔-A cattle drive in which Texas ranchers drove herds of cattle north to be sold in

northern markets

Ghost Dance - ANSWER✔✔-a religious dance of native Americans looking for communication with the

dead

grandfather clauses - ANSWER✔✔-law that excused a voter from literacy test if his grandfather had been

eligible to vote on Jan. 1 1867

agribusiness - ANSWER✔✔-..., a large-scale farming enterprise

Cornelius Vanderbilt - ANSWER✔✔-United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad

and shipping businesses (1794-1877)

Andrew Carnegie - ANSWER✔✔-United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education

and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)

John D. Rockefeller - ANSWER✔✔-Was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Revolutionized the

petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.

robber barons - ANSWER✔✔-Refers to the industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits

by paying their employees extremely low wages. They also drove their competitors out of business by

selling their products cheaper than it cost to produce it. Then when they controlled the market, they

hiked prices high above original price.

U.S. Steel - ANSWER✔✔-powerful and wealthy 19th century steel corporation founded by Andrew

Carnagie and JP Morgan

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Standard Oil Company - ANSWER✔✔-Founded by John D. Rockefeller. Largest unit in the American oil

industry in 1881. Known as A.D. Trust, it was outlawed by the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1899. Replaced

by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.

Knights of Labor - ANSWER✔✔-1st effort to create National union. Open to everyone but lawyers and

bankers. Vague program, no clear goals, weak leadership and organization. Failed

American Federation of Labor - ANSWER✔✔-a federation of North American labor unions that merged

with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955

Pullman Palace Car Company - ANSWER✔✔-manufactured railroad cars; nationwide conflict between

labor unions and railraods; 3000 employees began a wilde cat strike in response to recent reductions in

wages, stopping traffic in chicago

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 - ANSWER✔✔-Railroad strike that crippled the US first nationwide

strike, 10 governors used their militias to break

Sherman Antitrust Act - ANSWER✔✔-First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by

Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially

misused against labor unions

Promontory Point - ANSWER✔✔-Place where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed

transcontinental railroad - ANSWER✔✔-Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern

railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west contains

Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad

vertical integration - ANSWER✔✔-absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of

a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution

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