Unit 4 VOCAB Terms:

  1. This legislation provided a legal method for settlers to gain clear land title to property in the West.
  1. In this battle, the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Indians met the U.S. Army and killed them all.
  1. This chief of the Lakota Sioux was also a religious leader who would allow assistants to make cuts on his body before he performed his ceremonial dances.
  1. Supporters of this idea believe that the government should stay out of the economy and just focus on protecting private property rights and maintaining peace.
  1. This term refers to disgustingly rich business people who gained their great wealth by unethical means and by the hard work of underpaid and exploited workers
  1. This rich guy made his fortune in steel and is known for supporting charities and explaining why he and others like him should support charities in The Gospel of Wealth.
  1. This was a method for making high quality steel quickly and cheaply
  1. One of the early impacts of unions was this boycott by railroad workers that was settled when President Cleveland sent in troops to keep mail running on the railroads.
  1. This legislation cut off immigration from a large place in Asia for 10 years and immigrants already in America could not become citizens.
  1. This was the entry point for millions of immigrants on the East Coast of the United States
  1. This term refers to the dark, crowded, multi-family apartment buildings that housed much of the urban population
  1. This term refers to unethical actions by politicians who got rich by bribes, kickbacks, or cheating on contract bids.
  1. This philosophy incorporates theories about competition and natural selection and applies then to progress in human society where the strongest survive and the weak die out.
  1. This term is literally “love of humanity” and means that rich people should give part of their wealth back to society to improve it.
  1. Passage of this finally signaled a shift away from the spoils system in government by establishing a Civil Service Commission to test candidates for government jobs and protect those appointed from being removed for political reasons.
  1. Passage of this legislation was meant to prevent businesses from acting like monopolies. Although it was ineffective, it did set a precedent for similar laws later.
  1. This person was one of the first “social workers” in the late 1800s who believed that it was a Christian’s duty to improve living conditions for the poor.
  1. This 1896 Supreme Court ruling expressed a new legal doctrine endorsing “separate but equal” facilities for African Americans
  1. This person proposed that African Americans focus on getting the skills they needed for good paying jobs before they expected legal or political rights.
  1. This person published a collection of essays called The Souls of Black Folk and believed that African Americans needed to insist on equal treatment in both legal and voting rights.
  1. This term means the domination of one country’s political, economic, social or cultural life by another country.
  1. This person led a naval expedition to force Japan to trade with the United States.
  1. This term refers to a style of writing that uses exaggeration and even “make-believe” stories to attract readers and “sell” a story to the public.
  1. This 1899 proposal by Secretary of State John Hay declared that all foreign countries should respect equal trading rights in China.
  2. This “add-on” to the Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States would intervene in Latin American affairs to maintain economic and political stability in the Western Hemisphere.
  1. This was President Taft’s policy of investing in Latin American and Asian countries to help improve their economies and increase American profits at the same time.
  1. This constitutional change allowed for the direct election of state senators by state voters.
  1. This describes the domestic policy of Teddy Roosevelt that envisioned a government actively and fairly balancing the needs of competing groups in American society.
  2. This term describes Woodrow Wilson’s 1912 presidential campaign program that tied liberty for Americans with free economic competition and the destruction of monopolies.
  1. This constitutional change gave the federal government the power to directly tax individual incomes.