Westward Expansion
This 1869 achievement connected the nation and accelerated settlement of the West.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This business strategy involves controlling every step of production, from raw materials to distribution.
What is vertical integration
These overcrowded apartment buildings housed many immigrant families in poor conditions.
What are tenements?
This 1877 political agreement ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877
Populists supported this monetary policy because they believed expanding the money supply would ease farmers’ debts and raise crop prices.
What is free silver (bimetallism)?
This 1887 law attempted to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act
This law, passed in 1890, was the first federal attempt to regulate monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This photographer exposed urban poverty in his book How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
He was the Populist reformer who became the Democratic Party candidate in the Election of 1896?
William Jennings Bryan
a U.S. law that encouraged westward expansion by offering 160 acres of public land to adult citizens (or intending citizens) who agreed to live on, cultivate, and improve it for five years
What is the Homestead Act
This labor union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on skilled workers and bread‑and‑butter issues.
What is the AFL (American Federation of Labor)?
This political machine, led by Boss Tweed, dominated New York City politics.
What is Tammany Hall?
This leader promoted vocational education and economic self‑help for African Americans at the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This organization of farmers, also known as the Patrons of Husbandry, laid the groundwork for Populist political activism by fighting railroad abuses.
What was the Grange?
The name for these settlers, who built homes from prairie sod, struggled with harsh weather and isolation on the Great Plains.
Who were the exodusters?
This 1892 strike at Carnegie Steel turned violent and weakened the labor movement.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This 1882 law was the first major federal restriction on immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This civil rights leader advocated for immediate equality and helped found the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This political cartoonist used his artwork to expose corruption, especially targeting Boss Tweed, helping turn public opinion against political machines.
Who is Thomas Nast?
These settlers, who built homes from prairie sod, struggled with harsh weather and isolation on the Great Plains.
Who were the Homesteaders/Sodbusters
This Gilded Age ideology claimed that wealth and success were signs of superior talent and effort.
What is Social Darwinism?
This reformer founded Hull House in 1889 to assist immigrants and promote social reform.
Who is Jane Addams?
Who coined "The New South" -- describes the South’s attempt to modernize its economy through industry and railroads after the Civil War.
Who is Henry Grady?
This system, common in Gilded Age cities, allowed political machines to maintain power by trading jobs, food, or favors for immigrant votes.
What is the patronage or spoils system?