MALACHI MOSS APUSH PERIOD 6

Vocabulary flashcards based on lecture notes covering Period 6 (1865-1898) in US History, focusing on industrialization, migration, the Gilded Age, and related social and political changes.

Continental Railroad

A transcontinental network of railroad lines across the United States.

Battle of Little Big Horn

Armed conflict between the U.S. Army and Native American tribes, specifically the Lakota and Cheyenne, in 1876.

A Century of Dishonor

A famous book that chronicles the mistreatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government.

Standard Oil Trust

A large-scale business that controlled a significant portion of the oil industry during the Gilded Age.

Munn vs Illinois

Supreme Court case that allowed states to regulate certain businesses within their borders, including railroads.

Great Railway Strike

A nationwide labor strike in 1877 that involved railroad workers and highlighted tensions between labor and management.

Chinese Exclusion Act

U.S. federal law that suspended Chinese immigration.

Pendleton Act

Established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.

Interstate Commerce Act

U.S. Federal law designed to regulate the railroad industry and, in particular, its monopolistic practices.

AFL Founded

A U.S. labor federation founded in Columbus, Ohio in May 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor.

Dawes Act

U.S. federal law that authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Native Americans.

Sherman Antitrust Act

Landmark United States federal statute that prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts.

Ghost Dance

A new religious movement incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. It was founded in about 1890 by the Northern Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka.

Social Darwinism

The belief that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better. Social Darwinism has been used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half.

Gospel of Wealth

An article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.

Social Gospel

A Protestant intellectual movement that sought to improve the economic, moral and social conditions of the urban working class.

Atlanta Compromise

Was a racial segregation and disenfranchisement policy implemented in the United States Southern states.

Railroad Strike

The country's first major rail strike and witnessed the first general strike in U.S. history.

American Protective Association

A secret anti-Catholic society established in 1887 in Clinton, Iowa, by Protestants.

Nativism

Belief or political view that favors the interests of native-born or established inhabitants of a country over those of immigrants.

Plessy v Ferguson

Landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of 'separate but equal'.