The West & Expansion
This 1862 law gave settlers 160 acres of land.
What is the Homestead Act?
This industry was dominated by Andrew Carnegie.
What is the steel industry?
This group was an early national labor union open to many workers.
What are the Knights of Labor?
This immigration station processed Europeans.
What is Ellis Island?
Term used to describe this era of wealth and corruption.
What is the Gilded Age?
This transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.
What is the First Transcontinental Railroad?
This businessman controlled the oil industry through Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This union focused on skilled workers only.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
This immigration station processed many Asian immigrants.
What is Angel Island?
System where jobs were given as political rewards.
What is the spoils system?
This battle in 1876 was a major Native American victory.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Practice of eliminating competition by lowering prices.
What is predatory pricing?
This 1886 protest for an 8-hour workday turned violent.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
Law that restricted Chinese immigration in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This reform required government jobs to be based on merit.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This law forced Native Americans onto reservations and into assimilation.
What is the Dawes Act?
This concept justified wealth as survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism?
This 1892 strike at a steel plant turned into violence.
What is the Homestead Strike?
Overcrowded urban housing for immigrants.
What are tenements?
This group of farmers (party) pushed for economic reform and regulation.
What is the Populist Party?
This 1890 event marked the end of major Native resistance.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This law attempted to regulate monopolies in 1890.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This 1894 railroad strike disrupted the nation’s transportation system.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This political organization provided services in exchange for votes.
What is a political machine?
Cartoonist who exposed political corruption, especially in New York.
Who is Thomas Nast?