APUSH

Frederick Jackson Turner:

Said the Frontier is one of the most important democratizing forces in the U.S.

Ida Wells Barnett:

She formed an international (or institutional) movement against lynching

Jane Addams: 

(some unknown date), founder of Hull House and the Settlement house movement in the U.S.

Emilio Aguinaldo:

Philippines nationalist who opposed rule by the Spanish and then opposed rule by the United States.

Eugene V. Debs:

The face of American Socialism, he ran for president in 1912 and received nearly a million votes. 

Andrew Carnegie:

Wealthy typhoon of the Steel industry, published “The Gospel of Wealth”

John D. Rockefeller:

(some unknown date, could be 1858), discovery?? at Titusville, PA, made him one of the world’s richest men

Jacob Riis:

Danish immigrant, he wrote the marketing photojournalist classic, “How the Other Half Lives”

Booker T Washington:

Founder of the tuskegee institute

Alfred T Mahan:

Author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History

Interstate Commerce Act:

1887, legislation that led to the first federal regulatory commerce.

Homestead Act:

Said if you live on and develop a percent of land, the federal government will give (money i'm assuming).

Hepburn Act:

1906, this gave the ICC power to set maximum (or minimum) levels for railroad shipping sales. 

Clayton Antitrust Act:

1914, provided clarification and muscle? To federal legislation in price fixing. 

Chinese Exclusion Act:

1882, the only federal legislation aimed at one ethnic group

Morrill Land Grant Act:

1862, legislation that made possible Virginia Tech and UCLA

Dawes Act: 

1887, federal legislation aimed at treating indians as individuals, not tribes

Keating Owen Act:

1916, federal legislation prohibiting the sale as interstate commerce of goods (produced by child labor im assuming)

Recall:

Introduced by Robert Lafayette, allows voters to unelect an elected official

Referendum:

Introduced by Robert Lafayette, allowed citizens to undo an act of the state legislature

Initiative:

Introduced by Robert Lafayette, allowed citizens to enact law in the absence of _______.

16th Amendment: 

1913, this permitted the federal government to tax income.

17th Amendment:

1913, this allowed the direct election of U.S. senators

18th Amendment:

1919, prohibited the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages in the U.S.

Vertical Integration:

Combination in one company of two or more stages of production

Free Silver: 

1896 (not sure), the issue that motivated the Cross of Gold Speech and the Presidential candidates ________.

Plessy V Ferguson:

1896, SCOTUS case arising in New Orleans, established the principle of “separate but equal”

Social Gospel: 

Movement associated with Walter Rauschenbusch and Charles Sheldon

Granger Laws:

They were found unconstitutional because only the federal government can regulate railroads and grain elevators. 

Horizontal Integration:

Acquisition of a business operating at the same level of the value chain in the same industry. 

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