Industrialization & Big Business
This industry was transformed by the invention of the Bessemer process.
What is the steel industry?
This group is often called the first major national labor union.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Most “new immigrants” came from these two regions of Europe.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This act gave free land to settlers willing to farm it.
What is the Homestead Act (1862)?
This business strategy involved controlling every step of production.
What is vertical integration?
This strike ended after federal troops were sent in to restore order.
What is the Pullman Strike (1894)?
These crowded apartment buildings housed many urban immigrants.
What are Tenements?
These laws required segregation in public facilities.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This policy forced Native Americans onto reservations.
What is the reservation system?
This businessman built a monopoly in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This violent 1892 strike occurred at a Carnegie steel plant.
What is the Homestead Strike (1892)?
This group was barred from immigration in 1882.
Who are Chinese immigrants?
This Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
This battle marked the last major armed resistance of the Plains Indians.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
This corporation used horizontal integration to dominate oil refining.
What is Standard Oil (John D. Rockefeller)?
This event in 1886 became a symbol of the labor movement after a bombing in Chicago.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This reform movement addressed urban poverty and education.
Settlement House Movement
This political era was marked by patronage and corruption.
What is the Gilded Age?
This law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands.
What is the Dawes Act (1887)?
This term describes extremely wealthy industrialists who influenced politics.
What are Robber Barons (or Captains of Industry, depending on framing)?
This federal action showed the government siding with business during strikes.
What are the use of federal troops / injunctions (e.g., Pullman Strike response)?
This inspection station became the main entry point for immigrants on the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island?
This law ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This conflict symbolized the decline of Native resistance on the Plains.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn