Civil War
American West
Growth of Business
Immigration and Labor
Misc.
100
The Civil War was divided into these two groups
What is the Union and Confederacy?
100
Location of the last battle between U.S. Army and the Indians
Where is Wounded Knee?
100
When one company controls an industry
What is a monopoly?
100
Crowded, run down apartment buildings in which most immigrants lived
What is a tenement?
100
New method of factory production in which a worker did only one job over and over.
What is Division of Labor?
200
The period following the Civil War when the Southern States Became part of the United States again.
What is Reconstruction?
200
This connected the eastern and western United States and helped make settlement of the west easier
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
Law that required railroads to charge fair prices
What is Interstate Commerce Act?
200
A neighborhood where people from the same nation lived
What is a ghetto?
200
Railroad industry strike that stopped delivery of the US mail
What is Pullman Strike?
300
Removed federal troops and ended Reconstruction in the South
What is Compromise of 1877?
300
Name for a mining town that developed when gold or other metals were discovered
What is a Boomtown?
300
The name for a bad business leader who paid low wages and/or forced other companies out of business
What is a robber baron?
300
The three main reasons for immigration
What is religious freedom, escape poverty, and more opportunities?
300
Labor protest in Chicago that led to the end of Knights of Labor
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
400
Rules passed by southern states to keep blacks and whites separated
What is Jim Crow Laws?
400
The process used by the U.S. government to make Indians part of white culture
What is assimilation?
400
Term meaning government should not control business
What is laissez-faire?
400
The three main problems that cities faced during the late 1800's
What is unclean water, no trash pick-up, and not enough police or firefighters?
400
Strike at Carnegie Steel plant
What is Homestead Strike?
500
Name two ways southern states kept African Americans from voting
What are poll tax and literacy test?
500
Under certain regulations, this law gave land to encourage settlement of the Great Plains
What is Homestead Act?
500
The president's of the steel, oil, and railroad industries
Who are Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt?
500
The U.S. government used this to limit the number of immigrants coming to America
What is the quota system?
500
The union for skilled workers whose goals were better working conditions, better wages and an 8 hour work day
What is the AFL?
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