a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century).
Robber Baron
enacted during the Civil War in 1862, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
The Homestead Act
a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activity
Political Machines
was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Ida B. Wells
Who largely advocated the theory of social darwinism
Herbet Spencer
was a left-wing agrarian political party in the United States in the late 19th century.
The People's Party or The Populist Party
1887 regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States
The Dawes Act
were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States
Jim Crow Laws
was an American lawyer, orator and politician. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and the 1908 elections.
William Jennings Bryan
was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca. 1875.
The Farmers’ Alliance
System of scientific management, the task of factory management was to determine the best way for the worker to do the job, to provide the proper tools and training, and to provide incentives for good performance
Taylorism
This was predominantly built by the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California (CPRR) and Union Pacific (with some contribution by the Western Pacific Railroad Company) over public lands provided by extensive US land grants.
Transcontinental Railroad
Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?
Democratic Party
was an American journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. Grady encouraged the industrialization of the South. Coined the Phrase "the New South"
Henry Grady
Who founded the settlement house or hull house movement?
Jane Addams
violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in July of 1892
Homestead Strike
In 1864, the U. S. Army carried out a surprise attack on a non-combatant encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along the Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado, killing about 160 men, women, and children, including elderly or infirm
The Sand Creek Massacre
Who wrote The “Gospel of Wealth”
Andrew Carnegie
was an American writer, lecturer, feminist, suffragist, reformer, slave owner, and politician who was the first woman to serve in the United States Senate
1st President of Hawaii
Sanford Ballard Dole
in late 19th-century American history, advocacy of unlimited coinage of silver
Free Silver Movement or Bimettalism
American historian Frederick Jackson Turner theorized that the availability of unsettled land throughout much of American history was the most important factor determining national development
The Frontier Thesis
Name one of the Notable labor Unions from this time period
National Labor Union, 1866-1877
Knights of Labor, 1877-1886
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 1886-Present
Was a leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States, in the latter half of the 19th century. Became famous in 1877 for leading his people on an epic flight across the Rocky Mountains
Chief Joseph a
Used to leverage construction of RRs, speculated on value, construction mired by this scandal resulting monopolies fixed prices
Credit Mobilier