MULTIPLE CHOICE, TRUE OR FALSE, MATCHING TOPICS

Frederick Jackson Turner

- “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893)

- Famously argues that the Frontier is “closed (westward frontier)

- Claims that westward expansion helped further nationalism, individualism, and

democracy

- And that it made the United Sates unique among nations

- Theory lasting impact: Black Elk’s Story- biggening of a corrective narrative

Gospel of Wealth

- "Wealth", more commonly known as "The Gospel of Wealth", is an article written

by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy

by the new upper class of self-made rich.

- Rich Should use their money to help the Poor

Yick Wo v. Hopkins

- the first case where the United States Supreme Court ruled that a law that is race-neutral

on its face, but is administered in a prejudicial manner, is an infringement of the Equal

Protection Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

- Overwhelmingly, the Board used their discretion to discriminate against Chinese owned

laundry services, making it illegal for them to operate and faced them with fines for doing

so without a permit. Sang Lee, the owner of Yick Wo Laundry was fined for continuing to

operate without a permit

-Equal protection Clause – 14th Amendment

Exodusters

- Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the

Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster

Movement or Exodus of 1879.

- It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War

The Jungle

- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's infamous 1906 book exposing the horrific conditions of the

meatpacking industry, brought to light what was actually happening when the

government didn't step into businesses.

- Changed the way many Americans came to regard the operation of the free market

economy

History 1302 Exam 1 Study Guide - Williams

Texas History (HIST 4346)