Settlement of the West
The way in which settlers and railroad companies obtained land out west (either cheap or for free).
What are through federal government subsidies/loans (Homestead and Pacific Railway Act)
The amendment that granted equal citizenship to all people born in the US regardless of race.
What is the 14th?
The farmers were particularly sensitive about the big business dominance of this market due to their dependence on transporting their crops to distant markets.
What are Railroads?
The term used to describe a company that has possession or control of the supply of or trade in a particular business.
What is a monopoly or a trust?
The evolutionary principle used by the wealthy that is "part of the natural process" for those at the top to be wealthy, and those at the bottom to suffer.
What was Social Darwinism?
The main purpose of the Indian Boarding Schools
What is assimilation.
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.
What is sharecropping?
One of the two early organizations who worked to improve conditions for farmers (not the Populists).
What are Grange Movement or Farmer's Alliance?
The name of the first labor union that included all races and genders.
What are the Knights of Labor?
The reaction of the federal government to strikes such as the Homestead Strike, the Great Railroad Strike and the Pullman Strike.
What is they sided with business, sent in federal troops to break up the strike.
The way in which white settlers hurt the Indians economically, essentially depleting their entire culture.
What was the destruction of the buffalo.
The name given to the segregation laws that began after the Civil War and continued through the 1950s and 1960s.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Political party, mainly made up of farmers, established to encourage the federal government to take a greater role in the economy.
Who are the Populists?
The most well-known political boss that stole millions of dollars from the city of New York.
Who was Boss Tweed?
The policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society.
What is Laissez-Faire economics?
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. (Note: didn't work, they lost their land)
What was the Dawes Act?
The doctrine that was established during the Plessy vs. Ferguson case (1896) until it was overturned in by Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)
What is "separate but equal"?
These two events in 1873 and 1893 made it more difficult for farmers to pay off their loans.
What are the Panics of 1873 and 1893?
These were at the center of political corruption at the state and local level who exchanged favors for votes, immigrant votes in particular.
What are political machines/bosses?
The violent conflict between labor and management that erupted after an 8 day strike and a bomb thrown into the crowd, killing police officers. It set back the labor movement.
What was the Haymarket Riot/Affair?
The Indian Nation in which the Treaty of Fort Laramie was agreed upon, but the treaty was broken, like many other Native American treaties - Sitting Bull was a member of this nation.
What are the Sioux?
The lone dissenter of the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.
Who was Justice John Marshall Harlan?
Name at least three of the key ideas on the Populists' Omaha Platform of 1892.
What are: free coinage of silver, government control of railroads, direct election of Senators, income tax, abolition of national bank, government ownership of telegraph, restriction of "undesirable" immigrants
The socialist who was thrown in jail following the Pullman Strike and whose case went to the Supreme Court (but he lost). He will be thrown in jail A LOT.
Who was Eugene Debs?
The labor union created after the Knights of Labor that included skilled, white male workers and was headed by Samuel Gompers.
What was the American Federation of Labor? (AFL)