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History 2112- Vocabulary
Test 1- Maymester- Tompson
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Undergraduate 1
05/14/2013

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Term
What is rebuilding the Country and bringing the people back together after the Civil War called?
Definition
Reconstruction
Term
What are freed slaves refereed to as?
Definition
Freedmen
Term
What is stubborn opposition, refusing to compromise?
Definition
Southern Intransigence
Term
What was formed to punish black men?
Definition
Ku Klux Klan
Term
What are laws that put limitations on the black population in the South?
Definition
Black Codes
Term
What are laws that put limitations on the slave population in the South?
Definition
Slave Codes
Term
What is it called when slaves were imprisoned because they didn't have a job?
Definition
Vagrancy Law
Term
What is it called when a black man doesn't have property and wants to farm his own crops and goes to a person who has land and uses some of his farm, but in return, the black man has to give the person who owns the land a large portion of those crops?
Definition
Share Cropping
Term
What says that everybody in this country is equal?
Definition
14th Amendment
Term
What says that the right to vote shall not be restricted?
Definition
15th Amendment
Term
What was the time period called when the Southern whites wanted to keep the South like it was?
Definition
Counter Reconstruction
Term
What was the attempt to gain western territories called?
Definition
Battle of Little Big Horn
Term
Who won the election of 1876?
Definition
Rutherford B. Hayes
Term
If Republicans let Rutherford B. Hayes take office, he would have to stop the reconstruction period. What was this called?
Definition
Compromise of 1877
Term
What is a new way of producing goods by using factories and machines?
Definition
Industrialization
Term
What is a smaller city that built factories?
Definition
Lowell Massachusetts
Term
What is a larger city that built factories?
Definition
Boston Massachusetts
Term
What are trained people in a specific area?
Definition
Artisans
Term
What are the people who help the Artisans called?
Definition
Apprentice
Term
What is it called when the skill has been taken out of the production process?
Definition
Deskilling
Term
What is getting paid a set labor?
Definition
Wage Labor
Term
What is the growth of cities?
Definition
Urbanization
Term
What is it called when the employers were separate from the employees?
Definition
Class Division
Term
What is a tax on an imported good?
Definition
Tariff
Term
What was "stolen" from England to produce better steel faster?
Definition
Bessemer
Term
What is searching and investing in new products?
Definition
Research and Development
Term
Who created the wealth of nations?
Definition
Adam Smith
Term
What is it called when individuals make business decisions and the government leaves it alone?
Definition
Capitalism
Term
What means leave it alone?
Definition
Laissez-Faire
Term
What is a centralized ownership of the means of production carrying with it the system of wage labor?
Definition
Capitalism
Term
Who said this: Capitalism is a centralized ownership of the means of production carrying with it the system of wage labor?
Definition
Karl Marx
Term
What was Andrew Carnegie's business called?
Definition
Carnegie Steel Corporation
Term
What is it called when you own the entire process of a business so you don't have to pay a middle man? (Controlling from start to finish)
Definition
Vertical Integration
Term
Who owns and produces oil refineries?
Definition
John D. Rockefeller
Term
Who begins a steel company?
Definition
Andrew Carnegie
Term
What is it called when you are timed for everything you do on the job?
Definition
Time motion studies
Term
What are the theories of Charles Darwin that show survival of the fittest and says that the wealthy are wealthy because they were born to be wealthy?
Definition
Social Darwinism
Term
What are groups of people going to strike?
Definition
Unions
Term
What are protests?
Definition
Strikes
Term
Which union let everybody join them?
Definition
The Knights of Labor
Term
What was it called when a bomb wen off and killed an officer and injured others, and there were many shots fired after that?
Definition
The Haymarket Riot
Term
What is it called when there is no governance?
Definition
Anarchists
Term
Which union was mainly focused on the skilled labors?
Definition
The American Federation of Labors (AFL)
Term
What is it called when states (government) controls businesses, and it is a public enterprise?
Definition
Socialism
Term
Who passes 30 laws to help factory workers?
Definition
The Factory Safe Legislature
Term
What are the factors that makes an immigrant want to come to America?
Definition
Push and Pull Factors
Term
What is this an example of: Immigrants coming to America because of famine, poverty, or pogroms?
Definition
Push factors
Term
What is this an example of: Immigrants coming to America because there is more economic opportunity?
Definition
Pull Factor
Term
What is this an example of: when immigrants came to the U.S. and their is a different group every year?
Definition
"New"Immigrants
Term
What is it called when people are absorbed into a society?
Definition
Assimilation
Term
Who was worried about German immigrants taking over the U.S.?
Definition
Benjamin Franklin
Term
What is it called when an immigrant is established into a home in the U.S., and they try to get their friends and family to come live and work with them?
Definition
Chain Migration
Term
What is someones boss refereed to as?
Definition
Padrone
Term
What are the people who call them selves Americans even though their ancestors were immigrants?
Definition
Nativism ("The Native Americans")
Term
What was passed that restricted Chinese immigrants from coming in the United States?
Definition
The Chinese Exclusionary Act
Term
What is the term for something that is not really a scientific fact, but people make it out to be one?
Definition
Psuedo- Science
Term
What group tried to stop Catholics from coming into America?
Definition
The American Protection Agency
Term
What was passed that completely stopped immigrants from coming in the U.S.?
Definition
National Origins Act
Term
What are cities called?
Definition
Urban
Term
What is it called when all of the city is in walking distance?
Definition
Walking Cities
Term
What are the places right outside of the city refereed to as?
Definition
Suburbs
Term
What are run-down apartment houses that barely meet minimal standards?
Definition
Tenement Houses
Term
Who was a famous photographer who took pictures of the tenement houses, and the lives of the poor class?
Definition
Jacob Riis
Term
What was it called when the government has to help out with the poor class because of the conditions they are living in?
Definition
The progressive Era
Term
What is it called when we use something that we buy?
Definition
Consumption
Term
What is it called when we make something?
Definition
Production
Term
What is the U.S. mainly known as?
Definition
A consumer society
Term
What tried to sale supplies at a cheap price to give them to farmers?
Definition
Farmers Alliance
Term
What were the warehouses that stored excess crops?
Definition
Subtreasury houses
Term
Who wanted to get all of the racial groups to join together?
Definition
The populist party
Term
What was another name for the populist party?
Definition
The peoples party
Term
What is taking away the right to vote called?
Definition
Disfranchisement
Term
What are takes on voting?
Definition
Poll taxes
Term
What are the test to see if you can read or not?
Definition
Literacy tests
Term
What says that you can vote if your grandfather did?
Definition
grandfather clause
Term
What segregated different aspects of Southern Society?
Definition
Jim Crow Laws
Term
What case determined the phrase separate but equal?
Definition
Plessy v. Ferguson
Term
What is a mob to assert deadly justice on blacks?
Definition
Lynching
Term
What were the white people that lynched the blacks sometimes refereed to as?
Definition
White primary jubilees
Term
Who was the Founder of the Tuskegee institute?
Definition
Booker T. Washington
Term
Who wanted blacks to focus on vocational (industrial) skills?
Definition
Booker T. Washington
Term
What is it called when Booker T. Washington wanted blacks to follow all of the things white people wanted them to do?
Definition
Accomodations
Term
Who thought that blacks should pursue a higher opportunity?
Definition
W.E.B. du Bois
Term
What did W.E.B. du Bois create?
Definition
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Term
What group is a civil rights group?
Definition
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Term
What was a very famous store/restaurant in the West?
Definition
Saloon
Term
What is it called when you treat your animals like you were farming?
Definition
Cattle ranching
Term
What is it called when all of the land out west was government owned to the people could let their cattle graze?
Definition
Open range
Term
What said that once you farmed on a piece of land for 5 years, you would get 160 acres?
Definition
The homestead act
Term
What was a very popular house in the West that used chunks of mud?
Definition
Sod Houses
Term
What is it called when you basic needs are running out?
Definition
Scarcity
Term
What is it called when you relocate a large group of Indians to a new land to get the out of the way?
Definition
Reservations
Term
What is it called when we tried to completely change the Native Americans ways and tried to get them to act like us?
Definition
Americanize
Term
What was it called when the last group of the Sioux Indians resisted, and they went to their religious beliefs and told their ancestors to come help them fight?
Definition
Wounded Knee
Term
What was it called when the reservation of land were to be divided up by individual owners, and each house must have their own plot of land to farm, and this moved the Indians out of the way?
Definition
Dawes Severalty Act
Term
What is history that is passed down verbally?
Definition
Oral history
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