West
The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific two companies of what business?
What is the Transcontinental railroad
The area where the new immigrant are from.
What is Eastern and Southern Europe and China
When farmers farm rented pieces of land, giving half their crops to the owners in exchange for housing and land.
What is sharecropping.
A major strike at one of Andrew Carnegie's Steel Plants
The name of 2 major conflicts between the Native Americans and the U.S. government.
What are Little Big horn, the Sandcreek massacre and Wounded Knee.
The goal of the New South
To industrialize like the north
This economic system were transactions between businesses are free of government intervention.
What is Laissez Faire Capitalism
A disaster in the workplace where 146 workers died, because the doors were locked to prevent workers from striking
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The first major law to restrict immigration
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Three examples of new technologies of the industrial revolution
What is the telephone, telegraph, typewriter, electric lightbulb, and more
During a protest for the 8 hour work day, a bomb was thrown. 8 anarchist leaders were arrested for it - 4 were hung.
What is the haymarket affair?
The political policy of wanting to stop immigration to the U.S. and only focus on Americans.
What is Nativism.
What organization wanted immediate equality between African Americans and whites. Founded by Ida B Wells, W.E.B Du Bois, and others
What is the NAACP.
Rockefeller - oil. Carnegie - Steel. Vanderbilt - railroads.
This first major union included women, immigrants, minorities, skilled workers and unskilled workers. They often held strikes.
What is Knights of Labor.
Organizations that supported farmers
The Grange and the Farmer's Alliance
The movement of African Americans out of the South into farms and ranches in the west
What is the Exoduster Movement
He was am educator, author and adviser to the president. He prioritized economic advancement over political equality.
Who is Booker T. Washington.
The reason it is called the Gilded Age
"Golden on the outside, rotten on the inside". There was large wealth inequality. Extreme wealth and extreme poverty
This major union focused just on the economic issues - "bread and butter"
What is the American Federation of Labor.