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He is credited for inventing the steel plow.
Who was Oliver Kelley?
This organization was formed to provide social interaction for farmers but later became involved in economic and social issues as well as politics.
What was the Grange?
The 16h Amendment put this type of taxes into law, a tax that today effects most of us on April 15th of each year.
What is the Income Tax?
This law offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers who would live on and improve it for at least five years, encouraging westward migration as well as conflicts with Native Americans.
What was the Homestead Act?
Carnegie utilized this technique to produce affordable and strong steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This process, that allows for the people to choose candidates instead of party bosses, is engaged in heavily in election years.
What is Direct Primary Elections?
This occurs when a single company dominates an entire industry, eliminating competition; John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil is a famous example.
What is a Monopoly?
I am just a person from a farm family in Kansas, representing the "everyman".
Who is Dorothy Gale?
Harvest season became very productive with the use of the mechanical reaper thanks to the person credited for inventing it.
Who is Cyrus McCormick
These were organizations established by the Grange that bought and sold in bulk in order to lower costs for farmers.
What were cooperatives?
A proposed reform by the Populist Party included allowing voters to directly elect senators which became reality with the passage of this amendment.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Passed in 1887, this law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual plots for farming, with “excess” land sold to settlers.
What is the Dawes Act?
Critics gave this railroad magnate the label “robber baron” because he used ruthless tactics—such as crushing competitors and exploiting workers—to build his fortune and dominate the transportation industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This direct democratic process allows voters to remove an elected official from office before the end of their term, often initiated through petition and followed by a public vote.
What is a Recall Election?
This type of business is legally recognized as a separate entity from its owners, allowing it to raise capital by selling stock while limiting the personal liability of its shareholders.
What is a Corporation?
I searched for a brain because people didn't think I was very smart when in fact, I was smart enough to make scratch out a living despite the unfairness of the railroads. After all, I represent the farmers.
Who is the Scarecrow
Should you try to climb over a fence topped with this product invented by Joseph Glidden you are likely to get some serious scratches and cuts.
What is barbed wire?
Its mission was to promote "the rights, awareness, dignity, well-being and education of children and youth as they relate to work and working."
What is the National Child Labor Committee?
This Supreme Court case upheld the right of states to regulate businesses that served the public interests, such as grain elevators and railroads, establishing that private property could be subject to government oversight.
What is Munn v. Illinois?
This law established the government commission which regulated railroads, though with limited power.
What was the Interstate Commerce Act?
John D. Rockefeller used this strategy—controlling every step of production from raw materials to distribution—to dominate the oil industry and maximize profits.
What is vertical integration?
These two direct democracy tools allow citizens to propose new laws or vote directly on existing laws, bypassing the legislature in some cases.
What are Initiatives and Referendums?
Journalists and writers who exposed corruption, social injustices, and unsafe working conditions during the Gilded Age and early 20th century were nicknamed this.
Who were Muckrakers?
I represent the factory workers and laborers who are worked so hard that Populists push for a shorter work day.
Who is the Tin Man?
Bimetallism support came from farmers and laborers, from the southern and western states and many democrats.
Bimetallism opposition came from businessmen, bankers and industrial leaders, the New England region, and from many Republicans.
The nicknames for these two groups are...
Silverites and Gold Bugs
A later Supreme Court case struck down state laws regulating interstate railroads, ruling that only the federal government could regulate interstate commerce—effectively overturning Munn v. Illinois and paving the way for the Interstate Commerce Act.
What is Wabash v. Illinois?
Passed in 1890, this landmark law aimed to curb monopolies and promote competition, declaring any restraint of trade or attempts to monopolize interstate commerce illegal.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Andrew Carnegie expanded his steel empire by using this strategy, buying out or forcing other competing steel companies to merge with his in order to control the market and reduce competition.
What is horizontal integration?
Ratified in 1920, this constitutional amendment granted women the legal right to vote in the United States, marking a major victory for the women’s suffrage movement.
What is the 19th Amendment?
These overcrowded, often poorly built apartment buildings in cities housed many immigrant families and were notorious for unsanitary and unsafe living conditions.
What are Tenements?
I am the Cowardly Lion and while I can make a lot of noise by giving speeches, like the Cross of Gold Speech, I find that I really don't have the ability to make change. I ran for president multiple times and lost, the last time to McKinley.
Who is William Jennings Bryan
This person was the Republican candidate for president in 1896 which he won. He was also characterized as the Wizard in Emerald City, though despite being in charge, he held little real power.
Who was William McKinley?
This political party was composed of farmers, labor leaders, and other reformers. The party platform wanted a graduated income tax, bank regulation, government ownership of railroad and telegraph companies, and free and unlimited coinage of silver
What was the Populist Party?
Passed in 1916, this law sought to curb child labor by banning the interstate sale of goods produced by children under certain ages, though it was later struck down by the Supreme Court.
What was the Keating-Owen Act?
This law was the first significant U.S. federal legislation to restrict immigration, prohibiting Chinese laborers from entering the country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This powerful banker and financier earned the “robber baron” label by using his wealth to buy and consolidate struggling railroads and industries, creating massive trusts and controlling key sectors of the economy.
Who is J.P. Morgan
The 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of this in the United States.
What is Alcohol?
This process encouraged minority groups or immigrants to adopt the customs, language, and culture of the dominant society, often at the expense of their own traditions.
What is Assimilation (Americanization)?
This 1917 law created a literacy test for immigrants and barred entry to people from the Asia-Pacific region, marking one of the first major federal restrictions on immigration.
What is the Immigration Act of 1917?
Like the Populists before them, Progressives sought regulations of corporations and businesses as well as protections for laborers and a reduction of child labor usage. They also wanted to help in any of the one of the following ways.
What is:
Improve living conditions of the urban poor, attempts to curb alcohol and drug use as well as prostitution, supporting women's rights (mostly about voting) and working on improving race relations.
These individuals or groups opposed immigration, favoring the interests of native-born Americans and often promoting restrictions on newcomers.
Who were Nativists