Home on the Grange
What is the Homestead Act?
THIS 1887 act of Congress divided Native land into individual plots, which contradicted Native cultural norms about collective land ownership.
What is the Dawes Act?
The California Gold Rush began in THIS year, which became the basis for the nickname its participants were given.
What is 1849?
THIS is one of the many techniques used against striking workers in the Gilded Age. Name one!
What is lockouts, yellow dog contracts, court injunctions, deploying private detectives, deploying state militias...
Reconstruction in the South (especially Radical Reconstruction) was pursued primarily by THIS political party
What are the Republicans?
The desire of farmers to limit the price-gouging power of railroads, grain elevator operators, and middle men fueled the push for THIS type of local and state-level laws.
What are Granger Laws?
Xenophobic reactions to "New Immigration" included the demonization of Asian cultures and THIS 1882 law, which barred Chinese workers from entering the US for a period of time (which was later extended).
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The first complete route of the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in THIS year.
What is 1869?
THIS labor union was discredited by the Haymarket Affair and dissolved soon thereafter.
What is the Knights of Labor?
THIS political party stated its ideas and principles in the Omaha Platform in 1892.
What is the Populist (or People's) Party?
Long before they even dreamed of forming a political party, Grange movement activists created THESE organizations, which often supported interracial cooperation between farmers.
What are the Farmers' Alliances?
Cultural changes during the Gilded Age included the growth of the middle class and growing support for public funding for THIS.
What is education?
The famous election between William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley took place in THIS year, the same year as the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
What is 1896?
THIS was the first major piece of legislation aimed at breaking apart trusts and big monopolies, although in the beginning it was mostly used against labor unions.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
William Jennings Bryan belonged to THIS political party.
What is the Democratic Party?
Settlers moving West came into conflict with Native peoples, notably THIS nation, which consisted of the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota ethnic groups. You need to be able to spell the name for full points.
Who are the Sioux?
African American leaders disagreed over how to respond to racism and racist violence in the South. Booker T. Washington asked Black citizens to work with white people for gradual change and economic advancement, while THIS leader famously argued that full civil rights should be demanded right away.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The Wounded Knee Massacre could place in THIS year, the same year as the enactment of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
What is 1890?
Conflicts between Native Americans and settlers began with the arrival of Columbus and were accelerated by THIS act of Congress under Andrew Jackson in 1830.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
William McKinley belonged to THIS political party.
What is the Republican Party.
Farmers who settled the West sometimes lived in very difficult conditions and had to survive disease, crop failures, and poor housing conditions, notably the infamous houses made out of THIS material (especially grass and dirt).
What is sod?
Reform movements in the Gilded Age included the introduction of settlement houses for destitute women, a momvement spearheaded by THIS activist.
Who is Jane Addams?
The Battle of Little Bighorn took place in THIS year, the same year as the disputed election of Rutherford B. Hayes.
What is 1876?
Name the four major labor-related disputes and incidents of violence that we've discussed in this class, which took place in 1877, 1886, 1892 and 1894 respectively.
What are.
Most presidents in the late 1800s were Republicans, with the exception of Andrew Johnson and THIS two-time president.
Who is Grover Cleveland?