How the West was Won
This was completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
In 1892, this opened its doors to the “huddled masses” of the world.
What is Ellis Island?
Founded by Booker T. Washington. The school focused on agricultural and industrial training of black students to help African Americans gain economic independence from whites.
What is the Tuskegee Institute
His satire entitled Gilded Age criticized the greed of the industrialists, naivety of the working class, and political corruption, all of which coincided with post-Civil War nationalism.
Who is Mark Twain?
This innovation helped to create many jobs for women. Such as secretaries and switchboard operators.
What is the telephone
This act overturned the ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, stating that Native Americans were no longer considered “ sovereign nations,” and tribes would now be subject to U.S. laws and government oversight.
What is the Indian Appropriation Act?
This idea asserted that wealth was a direct result of God’s will and that, in turn, the wealthy had an obligation to give money away in order to better society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Founded in Baltimore, this organization broke workers up into committees to fight for issues such as the eight-hour work day.
What is the National Labor Union?
Utilizing vertical and horizontal integration, he formed a monopoly in the oil industry. He focused on transporting and refining oil, which had less variable costs than oil exploration and drilling.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
He is credited with inventing the moving picture.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Some of this tribe resisted Manifest Destiny and re-location. After fighting in several battles against the U.S. Army, they were eventually defeated, suffering many casualties. (This war was known as the Flight of 1877.)
Who is the Nez Perce Tribe?
According to proponents of this theory, humans either prospered or failed because, as is the case in nature, only the strong survive as they are able to dominate the weak.
What is Social Darwinism?
Founded by Oliver Hudson Kelley, this organization sought to unify farmers hurt by the mechanization of farming, high transport costs, low crop prices, and the use of the gold standard over paper money.
The Grange
In 1898, she fruitlessly spent 5 weeks in Washington, DC, trying to persuade the federal government to enact anti-lynching legislation. She helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Who is Ida B Wells?
This was the name of Edison's research and development business located in New Jersey?
What is Menlo Park?
This movement was characterized by tribal dances done by Western tribes protesting encroachment of white settlers. It was one of the last efforts by Native Americans on the Great Plains to resist American settlement.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?
A work of photojournalism published by muckraking journalist Jacob Riis.This work exposed the poor living conditions of the working class and immigrants living in the slums of New York City.
What is "How The Other Half Lives"
Originally a secret society of garment workers who organized in Philadelphia, they later emerged as a national movement by 1878 under the leadership of Terence V. Powderly.
What is the Knights of Labor?
He argued the education of blacks should not be merely vocational but should nurture bold leaders willing to challenge segregation and discrimination through political action, demanding an immediate ended to disenfranchisement and legalized segregation.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, defeated the U.S. Army troops under the command of Lt. Col. George Custer. This became known as “ Custer’s Last Stand .”
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
This was one of many scandals that fell under Ulysses S. Grant’s presidential term. His advisors were illegally seizing money to fund Republican campaigns, including Grant’s re-election.
What is the Whiskey Ring Scandal
This formed to fight the evils associated with the consumption of alcohol. Frances Willard took over in 1879 and expanded the goals to include labor laws and suffrage.
What is the Women’s Christian Temperance Union
He was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, who emphasized a “New South,” that abandoned plantation agriculture, embraced industries such as textiles , and promoted economic diversity.
Who is Henry Grady?
This invention by Joseph Glidden made it possible to cheaply build fences without lumber and protected railroad tracks from animals. This signified the end of the open-range and long cattle drives.
What is Barbed Wire?