APUSH - Unit 6 Part 1

Industrialist, social Darwinist & philanthropist; steel industry, vertical integration for $

What is Grotesque Luxury (Conspicuous Consumerism)?

Structure of a corporation; investors would only be responsible for the amount they invested

Term for Asian indentured servants

American industrialist and banker; created US Steel, largest business in the world at the time

Refers to the movement of cattle, by cowboys, on trails to shipping/processing centers

Chief of the Nez Perce who fled from US troops; had an amazing 1,700 march

Apache leader who was the last to have an organized resistance to the US government

A Labor Union formed by women to make women’s work lives better

Used by Carnegie; a manufacturer would control all aspects of production for their product

Invented the moving assembly line; revolutionized transportation by having affordable vehicles

Focus on cash crops, growing food to earn money

1882 law that banned Chinese immigration, law lasted 10 years

Book by Carnegie; duty of the rich to be philanthropists & donate their wealth as they saw fit

Pioneered by Rockefeller to get around monopoly laws; give 'this' your stock & get 'this' stock

Explosion in Haymarket Square in Chicago in 1886 during a labor demonstration; 7 died

Tribe attacked the territorial government in 1847, the rebellion was crushed by the US army

Labor Union; allowed skilled labor, unskilled labor, minorities, women and immigrants to join

Father of Capitalism; wrote the Wealth of Nations in 1776; set up ideas for the factory system

Leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Author & socialist; popular work = “Looking Backward” (1888), everyone lived in peace & harmony

Took away Native lands and sold them to individual Native Americans; way to destroy culture

Union leader, socialist and (eventually) politician; main organizer of the Pullman Strike

US cavalry escorting Sioux to a reservation; slaughtered them; 250-300 Natives died

Historian; said that closing of the west was the ending of the largest democratizing forces

Author; ‘rags to riches’ stories; gave poor people hope to make it if they worked hard

Would buy stocks in other companies to control them; Rockefeller used to get around laws

Idea is to merge with (or buy) competitors to create a monopoly

What is meant by "Genizaros"?

Partner of Carnegie; anti-union; was in charge of the steel mill for the Homestead Strike

Painters who focused on grand paintings of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains

Labor Union of skilled laborers across US & Canada; fought for better pay & working conditions

One of America’s most famous authors; idealized the west and was a social critic

Bicycle mechanic/s; first to build and sustain flight in an airplane in North Carolina in 1903

Brutally cutthroat businessman and industrialist; established Standard Oil

Management consultant; Father of scientific management (making industry more efficient)

Communities of Chinese immigrants; preservation of their culture in a new land; chain migration

Nationwide strike in 1893 into 1894; involved the Pullman Company; shut down railroads in US

War hero who was sent west to “tame” Native Americans; got wiped out, Battle of Little Bighorn

Secretive labor organization that wasn’t above violence; made people fear Unions

Collection of smaller Unions; at one time they claimed membership of almost 640,000

Spiritual revival for plains Indians; believed that a messiah would arrive and restore land

Attack on a village of Native Americans in Colorado in 1864; death of over 200 Native Americans

Socialist author of Progress and Poverty; spoke of income inequality & how monopolies were bad

The rich believed that they became rich because they were better than other people, inherently

A person of mixed ancestry - African American (or African) and European

Animal: source of food, clothing, blankets, shelter, tools & fuel for Native Americans

Famous cowboy trail in Texas

Governor of Illinois in 1890s; Progressive; fought to make workplaces safer & stop child labor

Steelworker strike in 1892; Ten people were killed in the clash; workers fought Pinkertons

The policy of placing Native Americans onto reservations

Battle; US Cavalry led by General Custer vs Native Americans led by Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse