set three us history

Laissez faire

Hands off minimum government interference

Meat inspection act and pure food and drug act

Signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, response to muckrakeur Upton Sinclair’s the jungle, and we’re in regulating the food and drug industries to be safer for consumers

Interstate commerce commission

Monitored railroads to ensure that they complied with the new regulations

Urbanization

Begin during industrial revolution when workers move towards manufacturing hubs in cities to obtain jobs in factories as agriculture jobs became less common

Monopoly/trust

When one company comes to control and industry, creating a lack of competition and allowing that company to charge unfair prices

Transcontinental railroad

Connected American west to the east, allowing for the settlement of the west, and create a national market, in which products could be produced and sold anywhere in the country

Horizontal integration

What a buisness, Beiser takes over another business in the same industry like an oil company taking over another oil company led to the creation of monopoly

John D Rockefeller standard oil company

A monopoly

Sherman antitrust act

Passed in 1890 committed American government to opposing monopolies and trusts prohibits any business practices suit against the standard oil company

Social Darwinism

Support, laziest, fair and racism. Believe that the government should not interfere in the survival of the fittest by helping the poor, promoted the idea that some races are biologically superior to others I’m rich because I am better and stronger your poor because you’re a week and dumb.

Capitalism?

A countries trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the government prices in wages are set by the free market

Communism?

Countries trade and industry are collectively owned and controlled by the workers. There is no government social classes, private property or money.

Anarchism?

Believe there should be a little or no formal or official organization/government in society, but that people should work freely together

Ulysses s grant

Supported congressional reconstruction strongly, went after the KKK with the passage of enforcement acts, desire to have freedom and secure rights

Carpet baggers

After the Civil War many Northerners came to the south to take advantage of reconstruction, either for economic gain, or to try to get a political position

freedmens bureau

Created by radical Republicans, help freedom, adjust to life after slavery by providing food housing in medical aid, offer legal systems, an attempt to set a former slaves

Scalawags

Negative term for southern whites who supported reconstruction and the republican party

nadir of race relations

Lowest point or worst time period in US history for racism and reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20 century

Sharecropping

Land owner always told the tenant that the crops did not pay off the debt for the year first, and then to still work, even though they’re debt, been paid off

Black codes

Pass by southern states they were laws, affect and restrict African-Americans freedom to ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished

Yellow press/yellow journalism

Newspapers that use centralized, headlines, exaggerates news, events to increase cells

Delome letter

And by spanish ambassador of the US criticize President McKinley by calling him week, yellow press, publishes the letters, and makes man American angry at the Spanish

Sinking of the USS Maine

Battleship USS Maine blew up in Cuba Havana harbor, feeling too many Americans, blaming the Spanish, most direct and porn cost of the US declared war on Spain

Roughriders

Nickname given to the first United States, volunteer cavalry, mainly college athletes, cowboys ranchers minors in outdoorsman, famous for Teddy Roosevelt’s participation

Treaty of Paris

And the Spanish American war he was given its independence from Spain Americans to control Puerto Rican Guam America pays 20 million for control the Philippines, which is eventually annexed after heated debate

Platt amendment

US forces Cuba to accept the platinum moment a stimulation for Cuban independence and the removal of US troops after the Spanish American war Cuba can’t let any other countries in the US to help them checked with them or make alliances with them let us on island whenever

First red scare

Fear that communism in anarchism was spreading to America