HIUS 222 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, UPDATED AND VERIFIED,
ALREADY GRADED A+
John Rockefeller
Initially tried to make refining as efficient as possible and called for companies to join as one, producing
the largest company (standard oil w/ the biggest size and the most money through the trust) A great
example of horizontal integration (gain total control of one part of production process)
Samuel Gompers
leader of the AFL (American Federation of Labor); exclusive labor (restrictive membership) and careful
when to use strikes, preached accommodation rather than resistance and was sparing with strikes
Jane Addams
founded hull house in Chicago; Addams kept up the fight for honest government and social reform for
garbage clean up;
William McKinley
25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of
Hawaii, imperialism. McKinley tariff; Is assassinated by an anarchist
Chief Joseph
Leader of Nez Perce. Fled with his tribe to Canada instead of reservations. However, US troops came and
fought and brought them back down to reservations; Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and
sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever."
George Custer
United States general who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux at the battle of Little
Bighorn (1839-1876); Custer's "last stand" marked the beginning of the end of Indian military successes.
These battles did not end
Geronimo
in 1861, Led by y Geronimo and Cochise, bands of Apaches escape reservations and begin to attack
white outposts in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas;
Geronimo surrenders in southeastern Arizona, ending Apache Wars in 1886
William Jennings Bryan
Democratic candidate for president in 1896 under the banner of "free silver coinage" which won him
support of the Populist Party; Cross of Gold speech; lost to McKinley in the first popular vote victory
since Grant
W.E.B. DuBois
, W. E. B. Du Bois, a profes-sor at Atlanta University, leveled the most stinging attack in The Souls of Black
Folk (1903). Du Bois saw no benefit for African Americans in sacrificing intellectual growth for narrow
vocational training; Du Bois called on the "talented tenth," a cultured black vanguard, to blaze a trail of
protest against segregation, disenfranchisement, and discrimination which eventually became the
NAACP in 1908
Andrew Johnson
17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he
became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts (civil rights) over his
veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote.
Ulysses S. Grant
served two terms; there was corruption under grant bc he hired some friends who betrayed him; during
his second term congress passed the civil rights act
Woodrow Wilson
28th president; lowered tariffs to encourage competition; federal reserve act (regulating credit and
money supply), federal trade commission (regulating converse), and clayton antitrust act (barred some
of the worst corporate practices)
William Howard Taft
(1908-1912), was endorsed by Roosevelt because he pledged to carry on progressive program, then he
didn't appoint any Progressives to the Cabinet; protected land, set child labor laws, set safety standards,
was more a trust buster than TR and supported a graduated income tax but is more remembered for
being fat
Alice Paul
Head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the
Constitution, and radically protested for suffrage
Lydia Pinkham
face of the vegetable compound that claimed to cure all female maladies; said to cure worst forms of
female complaints
Terence Powderly
Knights of Labor leader; He called for "one big union" to embrace the "toiling millions"—skilled and
unskilled, men and women, natives and immigrants, all religions, all races.
Eugene Debs
It was just such an order that had brought federal deputies into the Pullman strike and put Eugene Debs,
head of the American Railway Union, behind bars. The Indiana-born Debs, a former locomotive fireman
and early labor organizer, received a six-month jail sentence for violating the court in-junction. After his
release, he abandoned the Democratic Party to become the foremost Socialist leader in America
ALREADY GRADED A+
John Rockefeller
Initially tried to make refining as efficient as possible and called for companies to join as one, producing
the largest company (standard oil w/ the biggest size and the most money through the trust) A great
example of horizontal integration (gain total control of one part of production process)
Samuel Gompers
leader of the AFL (American Federation of Labor); exclusive labor (restrictive membership) and careful
when to use strikes, preached accommodation rather than resistance and was sparing with strikes
Jane Addams
founded hull house in Chicago; Addams kept up the fight for honest government and social reform for
garbage clean up;
William McKinley
25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of
Hawaii, imperialism. McKinley tariff; Is assassinated by an anarchist
Chief Joseph
Leader of Nez Perce. Fled with his tribe to Canada instead of reservations. However, US troops came and
fought and brought them back down to reservations; Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and
sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever."
George Custer
United States general who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux at the battle of Little
Bighorn (1839-1876); Custer's "last stand" marked the beginning of the end of Indian military successes.
These battles did not end
Geronimo
in 1861, Led by y Geronimo and Cochise, bands of Apaches escape reservations and begin to attack
white outposts in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas;
Geronimo surrenders in southeastern Arizona, ending Apache Wars in 1886
William Jennings Bryan
Democratic candidate for president in 1896 under the banner of "free silver coinage" which won him
support of the Populist Party; Cross of Gold speech; lost to McKinley in the first popular vote victory
since Grant
W.E.B. DuBois
, W. E. B. Du Bois, a profes-sor at Atlanta University, leveled the most stinging attack in The Souls of Black
Folk (1903). Du Bois saw no benefit for African Americans in sacrificing intellectual growth for narrow
vocational training; Du Bois called on the "talented tenth," a cultured black vanguard, to blaze a trail of
protest against segregation, disenfranchisement, and discrimination which eventually became the
NAACP in 1908
Andrew Johnson
17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he
became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts (civil rights) over his
veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote.
Ulysses S. Grant
served two terms; there was corruption under grant bc he hired some friends who betrayed him; during
his second term congress passed the civil rights act
Woodrow Wilson
28th president; lowered tariffs to encourage competition; federal reserve act (regulating credit and
money supply), federal trade commission (regulating converse), and clayton antitrust act (barred some
of the worst corporate practices)
William Howard Taft
(1908-1912), was endorsed by Roosevelt because he pledged to carry on progressive program, then he
didn't appoint any Progressives to the Cabinet; protected land, set child labor laws, set safety standards,
was more a trust buster than TR and supported a graduated income tax but is more remembered for
being fat
Alice Paul
Head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the
Constitution, and radically protested for suffrage
Lydia Pinkham
face of the vegetable compound that claimed to cure all female maladies; said to cure worst forms of
female complaints
Terence Powderly
Knights of Labor leader; He called for "one big union" to embrace the "toiling millions"—skilled and
unskilled, men and women, natives and immigrants, all religions, all races.
Eugene Debs
It was just such an order that had brought federal deputies into the Pullman strike and put Eugene Debs,
head of the American Railway Union, behind bars. The Indiana-born Debs, a former locomotive fireman
and early labor organizer, received a six-month jail sentence for violating the court in-junction. After his
release, he abandoned the Democratic Party to become the foremost Socialist leader in America
