TRASHKETBALL Review for Unit 6 Test
What supreme court case legalized segregation?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Why did conflict with natives increase during the late 1800s?
Increased westward expansion
Define the Gospel of Wealth.
Wealthy have the responsibility to help the poor
Name two reasons imperialism began in the United States
Need for resources, trade, competition with other European countries, white man’s burden/social Darwinism, naval power, spreading Christianity
What was the premise of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the United States
Why did the United States declare war on Spain?
USS Maine explosion, yellow journalism revealing treatment of Cubans
List three goals of the Populist movement.
Direct election of senators, free & unlimited coinage of silver, sub treasury, one term for president, nationalize railroads, graduated income tax
Describe the difference in horizontal & vertical integration
Horizontal- buy out competitors, vertical- buy out all phases of manufacturing
List three problems farmers faced during the Gilded Age.
Low prices, overproduction, control from railroads
What were two goals of the Dawes Act?
Assimilation, putting Native Americans on reservations/ taking away land, ending tribal identities
What groups would have supported the Chinese Exclusion Act the most?
Labor Unions, workers
What industry did each of these men control: Carnegie Rockefeller Vanderbilt J.P. Morgan
Steel Oil Railroads Banking
What was the 14th amendment?
Gave African Americans citizenship
What is the Social Gospel? What does it contradict?
Churches have responsibility to help poor, Gospel of Wealth
What did monopolists use to justify their wealth?
Social Darwinism
Describe the corruption of Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed.
Graft, bribery, fraudulent elections
What was the one positive thing that Tammany Hall/Boss Tweed did?
Provided services to immigrants
What limited former slaves freedom immediately following Reconstruction?
Black Codes
How did immigration change during the Gilded Age?
Immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe/Asia rather than Western/central Europe
What were the criticisms of monopolies?
Could set prices, took away chance for individual opportunity
How were railroads able to expand during the Gilded Age?
Government subsidies
What is the justification used in the Supreme Court Case Plessy v What is the justification used in the Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson?
Separate but equal
Why did labor unions form during the late 1800s?
Influence of monopolies, poor wages and working conditions
Who were the main leaders of the Anti Imperialist Leaders?
Mark Twain, William Jennings Bryan