Industrial Titans
The founder of Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
One of the major labor unions from this period.
What is the Knights of Labor?
What is the AFL?
The major group of immigrants that faced restrictions with an 1882 law.
What is the Chinese, or Chinese Exclusion Act?
The Act that tried to assimilate Native Americans by dividing land.
What is the Dawes Act?
The party that fought for farmers’ rights.
What is the Populist Party?
The business strategy involving control of every step of production.
What is verticle integration?
The event that led to the decline of the Knights of Labor.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Crowded, unsanitary urban apartments.
What are tenements?
The battle the George Custer was defeated in.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
William Jennings Bryan’s famous speech.
What is the Cross of Gold?
The belief that the wealthy should give back to society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
The strike that the government broke with federal troops in 1894.
What is the Pullman Strike?
Who is Jane Addams?
The last major Native American conflict.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
The law that ended the spoils system.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act(Exam)?
The purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
What is to limit monopolies and trusts?
The leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
Who is Samuel Gompers?
What is nativism?
The industry that flourished due to the railroad expansion.
What is the cattle industry?
The Interstate Commerce Act regulated this industry.
What is the railroad industry?
The innovation that allowed for skyscrapers and massive industrial growth.
What is the Bessemer Process?
The reason(s) factory owners preferred hiring immigrants.
Why is cheap labor, strikebreakers, or easily replaceable?
The political machine that controlled New York City.
What is Tammany Hall?
The term for people who moved west to claim land.
Who are Homesteaders?
The key demand of the Populists.
What are free silver, direct election, or regulation of railroads?