Period 6 Exam Study Guide PDF

AMDG Period 6 Exam Study Guide Terms: 6.2- transcontinental railroads Great Plains buffalo herds barbed wire Homestead Act Farm Protest Movements (PCE) National Grange Movement cooperatives Granger laws 6.3- Frederick Jackson Turner “The Significance of the...

AMDG Period 6 Exam Study Guide Terms: 6.2- transcontinental railroads Great Plains buffalo herds barbed wire Homestead Act Farm Protest Movements (PCE) National Grange Movement cooperatives Granger laws 6.3- Frederick Jackson Turner “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893) Little Big Horn Ghost Dance movement Helen Hunt Jackson Dawes Act of 1887 Forest Reserve Act of 1891 6.4- “New South” Henry Grady Birmingham (steel), Memphis (lumber), Richmond (tobacco) national rail network tenant farmers sharecroppers Tuskegee Institute Racial Discrimination White supremacists Plessy v. Ferguson Jim Crow laws literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses lynch mobs Ida B. Wells Booker T. Washington W. E. B. Du Bois 6.5- Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison 6.6- nation’s first big business American Railroad Association Consolidation Titans of Industry- Robber Barons Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. Pierpont Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller rebates horizontal integration vertical integration Capitalism laissez-faire Adam Smith Social Darwinism survival of the fittest William Graham Sumner concentration of wealth “self-made men” Horatio Alger 6.7 Organized Labor wage earners collective bargaining railroad strike of 1877 National Labor Union Knights of Labor Haymarket bombing American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers Homestead strike Pullman strike Eugene V. Debs 6.8- “pushes” “pulls” “old” immigrants “new” immigrants Chinese Exclusion Act tenement apartments dumbbell tenements ethnic neighborhoods 6.9- American Protective Association Chinese Exclusion Act political machines “boss” Tammany Hall Jane Addams settlement houses melting pot cultural diversity 6.10- Growth of the Middle “Gospel of Wealth” philanthropy working women growth of suburbs professions growth of leisure time 6.11- Social Gospel Jane Addams divorce family size Susan B. Anthony NAWSA WCTU Anti-Saloon League Carrie A. Nation 6.12- Role of Government federal land grants railroad rates Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 antitrust movement Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 Civil Service Commission high tariffs 6.13- rise of the Populists Farmers’ Alliances William Jennings Bryan “Cross of Gold” speech unlimited coinage of silver