Reconstruction
This was the government bureau made to help freedmen.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This change in time keeping was instituted because of the railroads.
What are time zones?
Factories that had poor working conditions.
What are sweatshops?
The movement which sought to restrict immigration.
What is the Nativist Movement?
This woman went into bars and saloons with a hatchet and smashed things up.
Who was Carrie Nation?
A term used by Southerners to describe Northerners who came to the South, thought of as taking advantage of the economic weakness of the South following the Civil War.
What are Carpetbaggers?
This Native American leader repeatedly escaped capture and was something of a celebrity.
Who is Geronimo?
This inventor is most famous for producing the first workable lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
A name for the late 19th century emphasizing both its wealth and social problems.
What is the Gilded Age?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
The president after Abraham Lincoln who opposed the Radical Republicans.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This political party championed the policy of Free Silver to increase inflation.
What is the Populist Party?
This titan of industry focused on oil and used the tactic of horizontal integration.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This act sought to protect the economy from monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This Amendment banned the sale and transport of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
A system in which a landowner rented land to a farmer in return for a share in the crops.
What is sharecropping?
This bloody event marks the end of Native American resistance to American expansion.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This titan of industry focused on steel and used the tactic of vertical integration.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This amendment allowed for the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This state was the first to give women the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?
The 1896 Supreme Court decision which upheld segregation.
This act gave 160 acres of land to anyone who paid a small fee and lived on it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
When unions represent workers in bargaining with management.
What is collective bargaining?
This act established the Civil Service Commission and set up competitive examinations for federal jobs.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This convention marks the beginning of the Women’s Suffrage movement in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?