Settlement of the West
A law that gave citizens and intended citizens the opportunity to claim 160 acres of free federal land
What is the Homestead Act
Laws enforcing segregation.
What are Jim Crow laws
The belief that government should not regulate business, allowing trusts to grow unchecked.
What is laissez-faire?
This labor leader later ran for president as a Socialist after witnessing federal suppression of strikes.
Who is Eugene Debs?
Short-lived victory seen as lasting symbol of indigenous resistance
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn aka Custer's Last Stand
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.
What is the Sharecropping
This caused farmers to go in debt and led to overproduction and falling prices.
What is New Technology/mechanization
Andrew Carnegie most famously used this strategy to dominate steel production.
What is vertical integration?
This labor organization sought to unite skilled and unskilled workers and was damaged by the Haymarket Affair.
What is the Knights of Labor?
This event symbolized the violent end of Native American resistance on the Plains due to fear of the Ghost Dance (killed 250 men, women, and children of the Sioux nation)
What is Wounded Knee Massacre?
Self-educated former slave advocated for the education of African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington
This organization formed to fight railroad monopolies and unfair rates.
Who are the Grangers or Farmer's Alliance?
The idea of "survival of the fittest" applied to society.
What is Social Darwinism?
An exclusive labor union who only allowed skilled workers and fought for "Bread and Butter" goals like better wages and less hours.
What is American Federation of Labor (AFL)
This law attempted to assimilate Native Americans through private land ownership.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This Supreme Court case legalized segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This currency policy was championed by William Jennings Bryan.
What is bimetallism/free silver?
This law created a merit-based civil service system.
What is the Pendleton Act?
New immigrants often lived in these neighborhoods that preserved language and culture.
What are ethnic enclaves?
W.E.B. DuBois' idea argued that a small, educated group of African Americans should lead the fight for racial equality.
What is the Talented Tenth?
Although designed to limit monopolies, this law was first used most often against this group.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
NY political machine that gave out favors/aid to immigrants in exchange for votes.
What is Tammany Hall?