Reconstruction Reckoning
Though Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders served brief jail terms, by 1868 every one of them received this
What is a pardon/amnesty?
This was the main reason most white migrants headed to the West and Great Plains.
What is to profit from the region's natural resources?
Carnegie's strategy of owning every stage from raw ore to finished steel within one company.
What is vertical integration?
When the presidents of the four largest railroads cut wages 10 percent in 1877, workers did this.
What is go on strike?
William Hope Harvey's runaway bestseller Coin's Financial School argued on behalf of this.
What is free silver?
This was the single greatest achievement of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What is educating formerly enslaved people?
In 1890 the Seventh Cavalry slaughtered hundreds of Lakota Sioux in this massacre.
What is Wounded Knee?
The national government financed transcontinental railroad construction chiefly with these two things.
What are land grants and loans?
Grover Cleveland took this side in the 1894 Pullman strike.
What is the side of management?
This was the first major farmers' organization.
What is the National Grange?
This was the main purpose of the Black Codes passed by southern states in 1865–66.
What is ensuring a stable and subservient labor supply?
Plains peoples embraced this ritual, which promised a return to a freer, more authentic way of life.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This Grant-era scandal involved railroad construction kickbacks and congressmen bribed with cheap stock.
What is Crédit Mobilier?
This is the central conclusion to be drawn from the general railway strike of 1877.
What is that if all else failed, the federal government could be counted on to put down labor unrest?
This was the Grange's original purpose, before it turned to politics.
What is stimulating self-improvement through educational and social activities?
This action by Andrew Johnson in February 1866 blew the Congress–President clash into the open.
What is his veto of the bill extending the Freedmen's Bureau?
Under the 1887 Dawes Severalty Act, this is what happened to reservation land left over after allotment.
What is it was sold to railroads and white settlers?
This was the greatest economic consequence of the transcontinental rail network.
What is that it united the nation into a single, integrated national market?
This organizational flaw, an indiscriminate "big tent" membership, helped doom the Knights of Labor.
What is being too big of a tent?
The Populist Party was the direct successor of this group.
What is the Farmers' Alliance?
Feminist leaders were bitterly disappointed by the 14th and 15th Amendments for this reason.
What is that they granted national citizenship and voting rights to Black men but not to women of either race?
This Native society built a vast livestock-trading empire in the heart of the Great Plains.
Who are the Comanche?
In this 1886 decision, the Court held states could not regulate railroads because they were interstate businesses.
What is Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Co. v. Illinois?
Written to curb trusts, this 1890 law's power was first actually used against labor unions.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Of these four, this was NOT a Populist/Farmers' Alliance goal: 1 nationalizing the railroads, 2 an increased money supply, 3 direct election of senators, 4 or a higher protective tariff.
What is a higher protective tariff?