U4 American History Vocab

Trust

Organization of companies to control prices and access

American Federation of Labor

Obtaining the right to organize and negotiate for better wages and working conditions for skilled workers.

John D. Rockefeller

American Industrialist; Revolutionized the standard oil industry

"Gospel of Wealth"

A Book by Andrew Carnegie: God chooses certain people to be rich >> rich must give to charity

Tenement Housing

Housing in the city where many factory workers where forced to live in one room apartments and the conditions where very unsanitary.

Homestead Act

1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.

Frontier Thesis

Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the frontier experience helped make American society more democratic; emphasized cheap, unsettled land and the absence of a landed aristocracy.

Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851

Established reservation lands for the Sioux; Restricted the Plains Indians from using the Overland Trail and permitted the building of government forts.

William Jennings Bryan

Led the populist party, nominated by Democrats to become president, said the famous "Cross of Gold Speech", loses to Wiliam McKinley

Free Silver

Political issue involving the unlimited coinage of silver, supported by farmers and William Jennings Bryan

Muckrakers

1906 - Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big business

The Jungle

This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.

Referendum

a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the general people

19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

Booker T. Washington

African American slave; created the Tuskegee Institute (technical education); said the Atlanta Compromise Speech

NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; formed by WEB DuBois

Square Deal

Theodore Roosevelt's promise of fair and equal treatment for all

Bull Moose Party

A name given to the Progressive Party, formed to support Theodore Roosevelt's candidacy for the presidency in 1912.

Federal Reserve Act

established by Woodrow Wilson to monitor banks and the money supply

Clayton Antitrust Act

established by Woodrow Wilson and it explained what trusts were allowed to do