this was a strike at Carnegie Steel Corporation in June of 1892 after the company president announced his plan to cut wages, guards were hired so that the corporation would be protected from scabs.
What is Homestead Strike
100
He lent money to the government to help with the depression, He is known as the Master of finance, and currently his banks are Chase Banks.
What is J.P. Morgan
100
A case that tested the constitutionality of slavery. It established the clause of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
100
Stated that a man could vote if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote before January 1st, 1867.
What is Grandfather Clause
100
Test of reading/writing that was used to limit the rights to vote.
What is Literacy Test
200
During the panic of 1893 and the depression that followed caused the Pullman company to lay off more than half of its employees, the employees who were not cut had their wages cut by 25% to 50%. This strike broke out in 1894, protesting their wage cuts.
What is Pullman Strike
200
He created the standard oil company, in 1882 he had a near monopoly company going on, and he is a polluting businessman.
What is John D. Rockefeller
200
Act passed in 1890 that made it illegal to have monopolies, this act was very difficult to enforce and now companies have to have government approval to combine companies.
What is Sherman Anti-Trust Act
200
Segregation laws, segregated schools, hospitals, parks, theaters, transportation systems, and many more public places.
What is Jim Crow Laws
200
Uses natural selection to explain human society, wealthy are successful because they work hard and poor are unsuccessful because they're lazy.
What is Social Darwinism
300
In July 1877 workers for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad struck to protest their second wage cut in two months, this strike impeded interstate commerce so federal troops intervened.
What is Great Railroad Strike
300
He worked on railroads, by 1889 he owned a steel corporation, and he revolutionized steel production in the U.S.
What is Andrew Carnegie
300
This Act established the governments right to own railroads.
What is Interstate Commerce Act
300
When a company has control over the entire industry, the company buys out competitors, and they can make the prices whatever they want because they are the only company with that product.
What is Monopoly
300
Station where immigrants underwent physical examination and inspection of documents before being admitted to the U.S., it was the chief immigration station in the U.S. from 1892 to 1924
What is Ellis Island
400
She founded the Hull House in 1889 to provide housing, education, and vocational training for immigrants.
What is Jane Addams
400
Act passed in 1882 that banned Chinese immigration to the U.S. and was not repealed until 1943.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act
400
Giving a job to someone as a reward for political or financial support.
What is Patronage
400
Favoritism toward native born Americans, led to anti-immigrant groups, and demands for immigration restrictions.
What is Nativism
500
May 1886 3000 people were gathered in Chicago's Haymarket Square to protest police brutality, when police arrived a bomb was thrown into the line of police. The person who threw the bomb was never found but they killed 7 officers and several workers in the chaos.
What is Haymarket Riot
500
President who sent troops to put down the Pullman Strike and created labor day.
What is Grover Cleveland
500
Act that said in order for someone to get a government job they had to pass tests, which was to reduce corruption and patronage.
What is Pendleton Civil Service Act
500
An annual tax that a person had to pay before he could vote, this caused even fewer black people to vote because they couldn't afford it.
What is Poll Tax
500
An organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city.