Settlement of the West
The New South
Farmers
Big Business
Labor Problems
100
The last group of Native Americans that had to be forcibly removed from US territory.
Who are the Plains Indians
100
After the Civil War this was made legal under Plessey v. Ferguson.
What is Segregation
100
The Big Business who controlled farmers because of farmers dependence on transporting their crops to distant markets.
What are Railroads
100
The king of the Oil Industry during the Industrial Revolution.
Who is John Rockefeller
100

The first labor union formed

National Labor Union

200

The act of trying to make Native Americans become a part of American Society

What is Assimilation

200
An example of violence use by the South to limit African-American's access to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment.
What is the KKK
200

This caused farmers to go in debt and led to surplus and falling prices.

What is New Technology

200

An industrialist who got his start in Railroads and then began a career in banking of buying and selling businesses.

Who is JP Morgan

200
An example of a conflict between labor and management that took place at Andrew Carnegie's Steel Plant.
What is the Homestead Strike
300
The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Homestead Act paid for by the Federal government by is an example of this.
What are Government Subsidies
300
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.
What is Sharecropping
300
An example of a local organizations who worked to improve conditions for farmers.
Who are the Grangers or Farmer's Alliance
300
An example of political corruption at the state and local level who exchanged favors for votes.
What are Political Machines
300

Group of people who began to organize and to fight for better conditions in Industrial cities.

Who is Labor or Factory unions

400

An example of a new economic activity in the west which included the search for valuable resources like gold and silver.

What are Mining Towns/boom towns

400
The goal of the New South.
What is to Industrialize like the North
400

This was a result of the new technology for farmers resulting in harming their profits

What is Deflation

400
An example of the justification of wealth created by a small group of people despite the majority of people living in poverty.
What is Social Darwinism or the Gospel of Wealth
400
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
500
an example of a new economic activity in the west that involved providing meat for slaughter houses for people to eat.
What are Cattle Ranches
500
Laws created in the South to enforce Segregation after Reconstruction ended.
What are Jim Crow Laws
500

The political platform for the Populist Party during the election of 1892 included a push for 8-hour work days and special taxing system

What is the Omaha Platform

500

An attempt by the federal government to break up big businesses and monopolies

What is Sherman Anti-trust Act

500
An economic system that allowed for economic freedom and monopolies to grow

What is Laissez-Faire

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