FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 6 APUSH VOCAB

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT UNIT 6 APUSH VOCAB

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Question 1: CharlottePerkinsGilman

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trendsetter for women's rights, wrote a book called Women and Economics that called for women to abandon their dependence upon men by entering the workforce

Question 2: FlorenceKelley

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a lifelong advocate for the welfare of women, children, blacks, and consumers; she led the National Consumer League and successfully lead an anti-sweatshop movement in IL (1893)

Question 3: ThomasEdison

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he perfected the incandescent lightbulb, along with other inventions such as the phonograph, Dictaphone, and the motion picture camera; he also improved the telegraph and telephone

Question 4: Imperialism

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the policy & practice of building an empire in a quest to control raw materials & materials & markets through conquest & colonization

Question 5: ThomasNast

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popular NYTimess political cartoonist, dealt w/ social & political issues but was most famous for his criticisms of corrupt political machine leader "Boss" Tweed of the NY Democratic Party

Question 6: YellowJournalism

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sensationalized journalism that had little regard for sticking to facts; it was designed to sell newspapers, very common during the Gilded Age when the newspaper market was very competitive

Question 7: MaryELease

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a renowned populist speaker during 1890s, she railed against the "monied" corporate and gov't interests she thought were insensitive to the plight of farmers

Question 8: CorneliusVanderbilt

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grew rich first through his NYC-based shipping business; then expanded his business to include a railroad for NYC to Chicago

Question 9: PanicOf1893

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the most devastating economic collapse of the 19th century, it came between Panics of 1873 & 1907 & showed the boom-bust nature of laissez-faire capitalism

Question 10: SocialGospel

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a religious counter to ideas like the Gospel of Success, the Self-Made Man, and Social Darwinism; it emphasized competition & individualism; this belief system emphasized that helping the poor was a Christian virtue

Question 11: TranscontinentalRailroad

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funded by the Civil War-era Pacific Railway Act, railroad was built by Chinese & Irish immigrants in two directions at once-- west from Omaha, NE & east from Sacramento, CA; was completed in northern UT

(1869)

Question 12: BookerTWashington

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ex-slave who became influential businessman & reformer; he said blacks and whites could live separately and they should focus on gaining economic equality before expecting political equality; was founder of Tuskegee Institute for the education of blacks

Question 13: Geronimo

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an Apache leader of the American Southwest, he used raids from Mexico to fight white encroachment on Apache land; he eventually surrendered in Mexico after the US and Mexican gov'ts began collaborating to capture him

Question 14: TweedRing

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group named after their leader, NY Democratic politician William "Boss" Tweed-- they took corruption to new heights during 1860s-70s through their very powerful political machine

Question 15: WilliamJenningsBryan

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big speaker & congressman, he made a famous speech agains the Gold Standard called the "Cross of Gold" speech; he also ran for president (1896) & was nominated by both the Peoples Party (populists) & the Democrats but lost to William McKinley, Republican

Question 16: JosiahStrong

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Christian minister who had superiority over white "Anglo-Saxon" civilization and called upon Americans to spread their religion and values to "backwards" non-Anglo-Saxons worldwide

Question 17: EugeneVDebs

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originally organized & led the American Railroad Union; he was imprisoned for his role in the Pullman Strike of 1894; later ran for president as a Socialist earning the highest percent ever (6%) for a Socialist presidential candidate in 1912

Question 18: RutherfordBHayes

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Republican from OH; won the very close election of 1876 after a backroom deal between Democrats and Republicans that handed him the presidency in exchange for a renewed promise to pull US troops out of the South to end Reconstruction

Question 19: AmericanFederationOfLabor

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(AFL) one of earliest nationwide labor unions, they were made up of many "locals" that were locally managed while the AFL centrally planned national strategy; focused on "skilled" labor which meant in excluded many immigrants, people of color, and women

Question 20: HaymarketSquareIncident

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(1886) explosion in Chicago during labor disputes that killed several people including police officers; the explosion appeared to have been perpetrated by anarchists, but the public blamed striking workers in general

Question 21: Jingoism

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an intense form of nationalism that is aggressive and expansionist; it grew in popularity in the US by the late 1800s as the US began building an overseas empire with the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Hawaii