Friday, September 9, 2011

Chapter 3 list of terms

1. Placer mining
2. Quartz mining
3. Henry Comstock (Comstock Lode)
4. Vigilance committees
5. Great Plains
6. Open range
7. Homestead Act
8. Wheat Belt
9. Sitting Bull
10. Indian Peace Commission
11. Assimilation
12. Ghost Dance
13. Dawes Act
14. Gross National Product
15. Entrepreneurs
16. laissez-faire
17. Pacific Railway Act
18. American Railway Association (significance)
19. Land Grant System (Impact on railroads, settlers, migration)
20.Robber Barons
21. Corporation
22. Andrew Carnegie
23. Vertical vs. Horizontal Integration (monopoly)
24. trade unions vs. industrial unions (collective bargaining)
25. American Federation of Labor
26. Samuel Gompers
27. Closed Shop
28. Ellis and Angel Islands
29. Nativism
30. Chinese Exclusion Act
31. Urbanization
32. tenements
33. Jacob Riis
34. Gilded Age
35. Individualism
36. Social Darwinism (Herbert Spencer)
37. Philanthropy
38. Henry George
39. Social Gospel
40. Settlement Houses (Jane Addams)
41. Americanization
42. Booker T. Washington
43. Pendleton Act
44. Tariff
45. Interstate Commerce Act
46. Populism
47. Inflation vs. Deflation
48. Poll taxes, grandfather clause, Jim Crow
49. Ida B. Wells
50. W.E.B. DuBois

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