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History 106 Test 1 Exam Review
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02/22/2011

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Term
The ______________ is an all white vigilante group that turned terrorist group that terrorized black (and other) citizens after the civil war.
Definition
Ku Klux Klan
Term
The _____________ were the elite group of people who after the civil war wanted to restore the old south before reconstruction. They were more subtle than vigilante groups and accomplished goals without violence. They refined the bribery system. (Patronage instead of cash)
Definition
Redeemers
Term
The ___________ was the deal the Redeemers cut out accepted patronidge from the GOP when Hayes and Dem were gridlocked in the election of 1877 and both needed a few more electoral votes to win. In The agreement Hayes was allowed to win the presidential election and ended Reconstruction in the south. A Dem appointed to Hayes Cabinet. Money was given towards southern infrastructure. A Texas-Pacific Railroad was funded.
Definition
Compromise of 1877
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__________ opened up the north to new economic opportunities and a transcontinental one was rewarded to the south following the Compromise of 1877.
Definition
Railroads
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____________ was the image of the south that the redeemers tried to sell to southerners following the Compromise of 1877. It envisioned an industrialized south and a new respect for work.
Definition
The New South
Term
____________ tried to sell the image of "The New South"
Definition
Henry Grady
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A ____________ represented the economic status of the south following the Compromise of 1877.
Urbanization didn't take off.
Deficit in capital.
Raw materials took from South cheaply.
Finished products sold back expensively.
Capital stayed with the North.
Definition
Colonial Economy
Term
___________ was raw material found mainly in PA, OH,I, and MN that eventually got turned into steel.
Definition
Iron Ore
Term
_____________ was the raw material found mainly in PA, WV, and OH that was initially used to lubricate machinery.
Definition
Petroleum
Term
____________ was one of main reasons that the US and the labor force increased in size. They flooded the labor market making the work force increase which decreased wages and increased profit for the companies.
Definition
New immigrants
Term
The ____________ was a technologic innovation that turned iron ore into steel.
Definition
Bessemer process
Term
__________ made readily available through the Bessemer process and allowed for the perfection of the steam engine as well as made superior trans and ships.
Definition
Steel
Term
Through ____________ technology of production takes off and unskilled workers with low wages work in factories. Allowed for tailorism to develop as well as the assembly line.
Definition
Scientific management
Term
_____________ was a major industrialist who worked in the Steel industry, was a war profiteer during the civil war and used vertical integration to control his business from the mine to the market.
Definition
Andrew Carnegie
Term
____________ was an industrialist who worked with oil refineries and horizontal integration and bought out his competition, and then used vertical integration. He created a monopoly. (not the board game)
Definition
John D. Rockefeller
Term
_____________ is the process of owning all aspects of a business so that you pay no middle man in the production of your product.
Definition
Vertical integration
Term
_____________ is the process of buying out all of your competition so that a monopoly is created.
Definition
Horizontal integration
Term
State and Federal government would give out ___________ by selling land cheaply around railroads as well as tax deals.
Definition
Railroad subsidies
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The __________ in the US had become largely domestic but the railroads opened up commerce by allowing workers to make money for them on both ends by being an employee and then a consumer.
Definition
Markets
Term
____________ is when a farmer focuses on one crop and uses the profit from that to feed his family instead of growing the crops he needs to sustain his family.
Definition
Commercial agriculture
Term
____________ happened when new teach allowed for higher crop yields, railroads allowed for bigger markets (global), and crops saturated the market. (Cotton Up, Price Down, Income Down)
Definition
Overproduction
Term
_____________ were the very high rates charged for using the railroads to price gouge farmers and others in the south.
Definition
Freight rates
Term
___________ were charged to farmers trying to get loans when they couldn't pay back loans and it trapped many of them in debt cycles.
Definition
Interest charges
Term
The _________ was in low circulation in the South and high in the north that made it hard for farmers to get loans.
Definition
Currency
Term
___________ was the first farmers group that started off as a social organization that sponsored events to get farmers to socialize and get to know each other. They end up endorsing political candidate to gain political power, but fall apart.
Definition
The Grange
Term
The ___________ was a more radical farmers group that focused on political issues. It believed that the economy should be controlled by the producers and was composed of women as well as men. Won some house seats and 3 senators.
Definition
Farmers’ Alliances
Term
The ___________ was a black farmers group that made the Redeemers realize that if the poor cooperated, they could have a big impact.
Definition
Colored Alliances
Term
_________________ was a farmers group that formed during an election year that developed a full platform: Demanded: sub treasuries, abolishment of all national banks, amendment for the end of absentee land ownership, amendment for direct election of senators, a call for govt to regulate and eventually own railroads and utilities.
Definition
The People’s Party/The Populists
Term
The __________ was a fight to remove redeemers from control over the south.
Definition
Agrarian revolt
Term
The ___________ of black southerners happened when things happened such as: property requirements passed, poll taxes to vote enacted, literacy tests to vote given, loopholes around tests and taxes given to whites. (understanding clause, good character clause, grandfather clause)
Definition
Disfranchisement
Term
____________ happened with a huge spike in violence, during the daylight, an announcement was made, scheduled so that everyone could see,once the person was selected they were shot-stabbed-*hung*-set ablaze-mutilated. It was used to strike fear in the hearts of blacks and black sympathizers.
Definition
Lynchings
Term
The ____________ developed after the poll tests/disenfranchisement and covered all aspects of Southern life and was unique in how rigid the system was, how it covered everything, and how it was entirely codified in law.
Definition
Jim Crow laws
Term
____________ were people who played on the passions of the voters, they raged against the blacks and rich southerners, the redeemers cut deals with them to retain power.
Definition
Demagogues
Term
____________ was an outspoken (white) populist member from Georgia, who was voted into the legislature, but resigned after 2 years and came to support the Farmers' Alliance platform, was elected to Congress as an Alliance Democrat in 1890
Definition
Tom Watson
Term
_____________ was a demagogue who merged onto political platform proclaiming radical ideas and succeeded in changing ideas people had.
Definition
James K. Vardaman
Term
_________ was nickname given to the migrating blacks who moved out of the South in response to the Jim Crow laws.
Definition
Exodusters
Term
___________ was the black rights activist who wanted to compromise with the Jim Crow laws. His plan was to: Educate self, Work in a trade, Save money, Buy land, Open business, Then gain political rights.
Definition
Booker T. Washington
Term
The _________ was formed by W. E. B. Du Bois, and their initial goal was to challenge the Jim Crow laws in Federal courts.
Definition
NAACP
Term
_________ witnessed a lynching of 2 friends, a tragic event that brought her into politics and pursue anti-lynching laws.
Definition
Ida B. Wells
Term
_________ was a nickname given to women who joined church reform groups who preformed political and social services.
Definition
Clubwomen
Term
The ______________ was the name adopted by the clubwomen who wanted to develop a moral core. Their goals were to give black children self-esteem, and to give black youth respectability.
Definition
Politics of respectability
Term
Black men developed ________________ to have a social and mutual aid society, life insurance, services, loans, self defense/resistance from the white mob, and to remove family from the white society entirely.
Definition
Fraternal organizations
Term
After a while the fraternal organizations developed a _____________ against lynchings.
Definition
Armed resistance
Term
The _________________ was a black separatist organization to remove themselves from white society.
Definition
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Term
The main goal of technology was ____________. It was cheaper and made the workers interchangeable.
Definition
De-Skilling
Term
Deskilling took away the __________ away from the workers. The work force went up, The __________ went down, and the wage went down.
Definition
Control of labor
Term
To gain control of labor, ________ formed. They were guilds organized around a particular craft to protect the skilled workers from being treated like an unskilled worker.
Definition
Craft unions
Term
The __________ were an Irish coal miners union in PA. They used terrorist tactics in their strikes. Tactics turned public opinion against them.
Definition
Molly Maguires
Term
The ________________ was a connection of railroads that lead to strikes across country. 188 people died, it was a fight against workers and authority. This turned public opinion against labor radicalism.
Definition
Railroad strike of 1877
Term
The __________ were a new group formed to help unite local unions nationally. They would sponsor smaller unions so that they could have local and national support. Ties with small radical organizations led to trouble.
Definition
Knights of Labor
Term
The ___________ happened when a unknown protestor threw a bomb into the crowd, the Chicago Police then rounded up random anarchists for a show trial that sentenced all accused to death. It gave sympathy to the Knights of Labor for the injustice showed.
Definition
Haymarket Square Riot
Term
The ___________________ was a labor union formed. It was only for skilled workers. Vision for the group was very narrow, only to negotiate wages in the existing system, but not to try and change system.
Definition
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Term
The ___________ was between the Emmagulated Steel and Iron Workers and Pinkerton men controlled by Andrew Carnage. It was successful at first and prevented scrubs from getting in, but the national guard was called and wiped out all of the remaining Steel and Iron workers.
Definition
Homestead strike
Term
The _____________ happened in 1892 and was an organized by Eugenne Debs. It was initially successful. The governor refused to call in the national guard, so the president did and then they were all wiped out.
Definition
Pullman strike
Term
________________ is a general history of populism written by John D. Hicks.
Definition
The Populist Revolt
Term
_____________ occurred mainly in the south, and the Agrarian Revolt is an example of it.
Definition
Racial violence
Term
____________ is what happened in 1890s amongst workers in factories.
Definition
Labor Unrest
Term
The ____________ happened when over-expansion finally came to head and formed a depression that lasted 8 years. Unemployment hi 20%.
Definition
Panic of 1893
Term
___________ was formed by Jacob Coxey when he wanted a public works bill. He resigned from congress and formed an army of the unemployed to march at DC. Army was easily apprehended and taken to camps and held on the White House lawn.
Definition
Coxey’s Army
Term
Poor people wanted to __________ and base our dollar on it instead of Gold so that they could inflate the economy. The issue is responsible for splitting the 1896 election.
Definition
Free silver
Term
In the Election of 1896, the democratic candidate was _______________. He gave the Cross of Gold speech. He was a legendary Agrarian speaker.
Definition
William Jennings Bryan
Term
The Republican candidate in the election of 1896 was _____________. He was a stock republican.
Definition
William McKinley
Term
The _____________ was split by silver issue and the two candidates were William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley.
Definition
Election of 1896
Term
When McKinley won, he started an ______________ that helped stop the depression and further opened our economy to other nations.
Definition
Overseas expansion
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