It's Wild
Along with the horse, animal that Plains Indians depended on?
What is the buffalo?
Political party created by Western farmers in late 1800's
What is the Populist Party?
Situation where one company controls the supply of a commodity
What is a monopoly?
What is the "Gilded Age"?
Bell invention that connected the world
What is the telephone?
What is the Dawes Act?
Main villain for Populists - mostly due to overcharging
What is the railroad?
Creating a monopoly by controlling the same level of an industry
What is "vertical integration"?
An organization that ran city politics through corrupt means
What is a political machine?
Inventor of the light bulb, phonograph, movie camera?
Who is Edison?
Leader of the 7th Cavalry, defeated at the Little Bighorn
Who is Custer?
Name for Populist Platform demanding RR regulation, increased inflation, etc.
What is the Omaha Platform?
En francais, term meaning "hands off" - describes gov. policy toward business
What is "laissez faire"?
Law that ended Patronage after death of Garfield
What is the Pendleton Act?
His "process" made Carnegie very wealthy
Who is Bessemer?
Last "battle" of the Indian Wars; sparked by Ghost Dance
What is Wounded Knee?
Populist Presidential candidate in '96; known for "Cross of Gold" speech
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
First law to regulate monopolies (Not the Int. comm. act)
What is the Sherman Act?
Most infamous political machine; led NYC via Boss Tweed
What is Tammany Hall?
Wealthy banker; he once loaned gold to the US government
Who is JP Morgan?
Promoted assimilation in her "Century of Dishonor"
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
Case where Populists in Western states temporarily won right to regulate RR's - led to ICC
What is Munn v. Illinois?
Tactic used by owners; judge's order to end strike
What is an injunction?
What is "graft"?
inventor of the typewriter
Who is Sholes?