Settlement of the West
Conflict between the U.S. Army and the Lakota Sioux that ended in the murder of 300 Native Americans
What is Wounded Knee
This gave southern states legal justification for segregation.
What is Plessy v Ferguson
Farmers believed they were being abused by these industries. They felt the government should regulate them for the benefit of the farmers.
What are Railroads and banks
The first major industrial labor union in the United States. Admitted women and African Americans but favor anti-immigration legislation. The Haymarket Affair spelled their demise.
Who are the Knights of Labor
This was considered a great victory for the Sioux, though within a decade the remaining Sioux would be defeated and forced onto reservations.
What is Custer's Last Stand
Created in the South to intimidate and limit African-American's access to the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
What is the creation of KKK
This made farming easier and more productive; however, had the negative impact of overproduction which led to lower prices, debt, and migration back to urban areas for work.
What is New Technology and modern farming equipment
The federal government invested in the Railroad industry by doing this.
Granting lands, providing loans, and subsidies
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.
What is Sharecropping
An example of a local organization that worked to improve conditions for farmers.
Who are the Grangers or Farmer's Alliance
An example of political corruption at the state and local level who exchanged favors for votes and maintained control of the politics in an area.
What are Political Machines
He coined the term Gilded Age to describe the discrepancy between the wealthy industrialists and the mass of poor laborers.
Who is Mark Twain
New towns that emerged almost overnight in the west filled with people searching for a quick profit. These towns were male-dominated and violent.
Mining Towns or Boomtowns
He established the ideology of The New South. Focus on the economic development of the South while protecting the growing racial segregation of the region from any Northern interference.
This was formed to give the federal government the ability to regulate the railroad industry
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission
An example of a conflict between labor and management that erupted after an 8 day strike and a bomb being thrown into the crowd.
What is the Haymarket Riot
He believed the frontier was closed and posed a threat to U.S. tranquility. He believed in the The “safety valve” theory, which stated was “that when hard times came, the unemployed who cluttered the city pavements merely moved west, took up farming, and prospered.”
Who was Fredrick Jackson Turner or the Turner Thesis
Segregation that is required by law
de jure segregation
This Supreme Court decision stated that some of the Granger Laws were unconstitutional because states could not regulate commerce that crossed state lines.
What is the Wabash Decision
This was passed to in an attempt to break up any organization that limited competition and hurt consumers.
What is The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
President of the American Federation of Labor Union and promoted the idea of collective bargaining.
Who is Samuel Gompers