The West
American Indians
New South
2nd Industrial Revolution
Immigration
Gilded Age Politics
100
The mechanization of farming and overproduction of agricultural products such as wheat had this impact on farm prices.
suppressing/lowering/decreasing
100
What was the main food and life source for the Plain Indians that was hunted to near extinction by white settlers?
Bison/Buffalo
100
What took the place of slavery and the plantation system in the South following the Civil War?
Sharecropping/Tenant Farming
100
The term “Gilded Age” was coined by this famous American writer.
Mark Twain
100
This is the name of the small, dark, unsafe living space in which many immigrant industrial workers lived.
Tenement
100
The French term to describe the “hands-off” approach that the government took toward regulating business during the Gilded Age.
Laissez-Faire
200
Farmers organizations called for the (increase/decrease) in regulation of the railroad industry.
Increase
200
This Sioux/Cheyenne victory intensified anti-Native sentiment and accelerated the grabbing of Native land.
Battle of Little Bighorn/Custer’s Last Stand
200
What Alabama city saw some industrialization in iron and steel production?
Birmingham
200
The Bessemer process was a cheaper and more efficient way to produce this essential material.
Steel
200
Who was the early muckraker who used flash photography to expose the poor living conditions of city dwellers?
Jacob Riis
200
What was the most famous New York City political machine of the era?
Tammany Hall
300
Along with railroads and the discovery of precious metals, this law granting loyal citizens 160 acres of free land drew many Americans to the West.
Homestead Act
300
This was the Native American ritual which they hoped would help them to return to the way life was before contact with white Americans.
Ghost Dance
300
The 14th Amendment was interpreted to include “separate but equal” facilities in this Supreme Court decision.
Plessy v. Ferguson
300
This industrialist controlled 95% of the nation’s oil supply.
Rockefeller
300
What two regions of Europe were included in the “new” immigrants?
Southern and Eastern
300
What common political machine practice is illustrated here?
Voter fraud
400
These were created in order to allow railroad companies across the country to coordinate their schedules for both efficiency and safety.
Time Zones
400
This was the site of the massacre where an Army regiment killed 200-300 Lakota Sioux men, women and children.
Wounded Knee, SD
400
This is an example of these kinds of laws.
Jim Crow Laws
400
What was the name of the first major labor organization which included both skilled and unskilled labor?
The Knights of Labor
400
This political cartoon was published in response to what piece of legislation.
Chinese Exclusion Act
400
Under which presidential administration did the Credit Mobilier and the Whiskey Ring scandals take place?
Ulysses S. Grant
500
The first transcontinental railroad was completed in this state?
Utah
500
This law forced American Indians to stop living communally by dissolving tribal land and awarding 160 acres of land to heads of household under the stipulation that they improve the land and live like whites for 25 years.
Dawes Act
500
Fifty-Eight years of segregation will begin to end with this Supreme Court decision in 1954.
Brown v. Board of Education
500
Which industrialist penned the Gospel of Wealth suggesting the rich have a responsibility to engage in philanthropy?
Carnegie
500
This Nobel Peace Prize winner established the Hull House to support poor and immigrant communities in Chicago.
Jane Addams
500
What was the very successful third party whose platform included government ownership of the RR and free coinage of silver?
Populist Party