Reconstruction
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1862 act provided 160 acres of public land to settlers who would improve it over five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This Scottish immigrant became one of America's wealthiest men through his steel empire and later became a famous philanthropist.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This 1882 law was the first significant restriction on immigration to the United States, targeting a specific nationality.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This 1890 act was the first federal law to prohibit monopolistic business practices and trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This 1876 battle saw the defeat of George Custer and the 7th Cavalry by Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This oil tycoon created the Standard Oil Company and controlled about 90% of U.S. oil refineries by the 1880s.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This New York City political machine, led by Boss Tweed, became infamous for corruption in the 1860s-1870s.
What is Tammany Hall?
This third party, founded in 1892, advocated for farmers' interests and called for free silver, graduated income tax, and government ownership of railroads.
What is the Populist Party (or People's Party)?
These laws, passed by Southern states after the Civil War, restricted the rights and movements of formerly enslaved people.
What are Black Codes?
This 1887 act broke up tribal lands into individual allotments, aiming to assimilate Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
This 1886 labor protest in Chicago turned violent when a bomb exploded, leading to a crackdown on labor unions.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This immigration processing center opened in New York Harbor in 1892.
What is Ellis Island?
This 1896 Democratic presidential candidate delivered the famous "Cross of Gold" speech advocating for free silver.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This Reconstruction agency provided food, housing, medical aid, and education to formerly enslaved people and poor whites.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This 1890 massacre marked the end of the Indian Wars on the Great Plains.
What is Wounded Knee?
This 1892 strike at a Carnegie Steel plant in Pennsylvania ended in violence and a major defeat for organized labor.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This journalist and photographer exposed the harsh conditions of tenement life in his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This 1883 act created a merit-based system for federal employment, reducing the spoils system.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
This system of agriculture kept many formerly enslaved people in a cycle of debt and poverty in the post-Civil War South.
What is sharecropping?
The completion of this railroad in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, connected the East and West coasts.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Founded in 1886, this labor organization led by Samuel Gompers focused on skilled workers and "bread and butter" issues.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
These community centers in urban areas provided education, healthcare, and social services to immigrants and the poor.
What are settlement houses?
This 1887 act created the first federal regulatory agency to oversee railroad rates and practices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?