Scandal!
Carrie Nation wanted to chop up American alcohol consumption as part of the ____ movement.
temperance
Cowboys' traveled with herds of cattle from Texas to Kansas railroad. This difficult, lengthy journey was called a...
What is a long drive?
Farmers helped to found the People's Party, also known as _____
Populists
Access to natural resources in the West for businesses changed from the mid-1800s to the late 1800s mostly due to which communications system invention?
The westward expansion of communication systems such as the electric telegraph, which followed the transcontinental railroad lines.
"To die rich is to die disgraced," said this charitable steel tycoon.
Andrew Carnegie
This scandal involved a construction company for the Union Pacific Railroad and showed Grant may not be as good a president as he was a war general.
Credit Mobilier
Federal land was given to companies in this industry to develop the western United States.
Railroads
Segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement were the results of these laws in the southern states.
Jim Crow laws
In the late 1800's, the population of the United States exploded and the workforce expanded because of _____
immigration...Bonus 100 points: but in what decade did the government start restricting immigration?
You might learn not to trust this oil magnate, with his sneaky railway deals, sneaky spying on his competitors, and ruthless consolidation of his industry.
John D. Rockefeller
Low wages and dangerous working conditions led workers to form...
What are labor Unions? 100 Bonus Points: Name one...
As settlers, prospectors, railroads, and more moved west, with whom did they find themselves in conflict?
American Indians
Farmers organized these to resist corporate control of agricultural markets to combat big business.
What Cooperatives, or the Grange, or the Farmers' Alliance, or the Populist Party
In response to the woeful conditions in the cities for the poor, Jane Addams and other women started ____ which sought to provide services and education for families
settlement houses
Hull House or settlement house founders like Addams led the way toward a movement of reform by 1900 that became known as ...
The Progressive Movement
The political machine: at Tammany Hall in New York City, this politician was famous for taking bribes.
Boss Tweed
Want 160 acres in the west? Willing to develop it and live there for 5 years? This law will make it happen.
Homestead Act of 1862
How were farmers supposed to pay their debt if they didn't have any money? They proposed coining money from ____ not ____ to influence inflation.
silver, gold
Samuel Gompers founded the labor union known as the _________________
American Federation of Labor
African Americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start anew in Kansas were known as
Exodusters
This Supreme Court case legitimized the "separate but equal" practice of the Jim Crow South.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This act sought to give American Indians 160 acres and turn them into subsistence farmers. Additionally, it established the boarding schools, hotbeds of assimilation. It wasn't until 1934 that this act would be overturned.
Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
In the Gilded Age, this political party generally favored Northern business interests...
What is the Republican Party. To get an extra 100 points, name a Gilded Age Republican politician.
powerful and sometimes corrupt political machines were created by recruiting the loyalty of ...
immigrants
This prevailing belief promoted by Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations economic theory book led to governments being less active in regard to the economy.