In order to increase the weight of cows this technique was used. It entailed forcing a cow to bloat itself with water before it was weighed for sale. This cheapened the value of cows and cow products.
What is "Stock Watering"?
100
An African American activist who was president of the all-black Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.He advocated for black social equality.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
100
Americans who believed that immigrants should not be able to settle into American society.
Who are The Nativists?
100
Created by Alexander Graham Bell, this invention gave people the option to communicate from a long distance.
What is the telephone?
100
The movement in which reformers sought to change societal ills, including politics and social reform
What is the Progressive Movement?
200
These were state-level legal codes of segregation.
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
200
A party of mostly poor subsistence farmers in the Midwest and South. They faced the negative effects of high tariffs and taxes. They advocated rights in favor of the people.
What is the Populist Party?
200
This is a movement in which African Americans began to fight for their rights.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
200
This special railroad was completed in 1869. It allowed trade and travel through continents.
What is Transcontinental Railroad?
200
The name of the buildings where millions of new immigrants lived when they fled into US cities. These were often tiny one-room apartments sharing a single bathroom with other families on the floor.
What are Tenements?
300
A term used for a policy when the Treasury began to accumulate gold stocks against the appointed day for the continuation of metallic money payment.
What is "Contraction"?
300
An African American activist, historian and sociologist who argued that blacks should fight for immediate and overdue social and economic equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
300
This completely banned Chinese immigration to the United States.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
Created Thomas Edison, This invention used electricity to emit something that would one to see clearly in the dark and allow longer work hours.
What is the Light bulb?
400
A reaction to the economy after too many people had taken out loans of which they were unable to pay back due to lack of profit from where they had invested their money. There was too much money expansion.
What is The Panic of 1873 ?
400
A female reformer who founded Hull House in 1889. She sought to end the harsh poverty condition.
Who is Jane Adams?
400
A case in which the Supreme Court upheld the policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
What is the Plessy v. Ferguson case?
400
The company founded by John D. Rockefeller. It provided cheap abundant oil for consumers.
What is Standard Oil Company?
400
A name for the late nineteenth century. It suggests that the economy was soaring but was actually not.
What is "The Gilded Age"
500
A term used in reference to congress in the late 19th century named for its "lavish spending" giving pensions to Civil War veterans, and increased government purchases on silver.
What is "The Billion-Dollar Congress"?
500
A political party that formed in the late 1880s merged with other liberal Democrats to form the Populist Party.
What is The Farmers Alliance?
500
A Period in the late nineteenth century which focuses on the transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877.
What is the Reconstruction Period?
500
The expansion of a corporation to include other previously competitive enterprises within the same sector of goods or service production. This is a way in which a monopoly can be created.
What is Horizontal Integration?
500
A labor Union who sought to employ the poor and tried to unite both unskilled and skilled workers.