Reconstruction and the South
This year's election saw the withdrawal of federal troops from the South in exchange for Republican Rutherford Hayes's presidency.
What is the Election of 1876?
Created under the Cleveland administration, this was the first regulatory commission in the United States, aimed at cracking down on national monopolies.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
This 1887 act subdivided Indian reservations, forcing them into a capitalistic society with private property in order to encourage their assimilation.
What is the Dawes Act?
Later known as trust busted and broken up under the Roosevelt administration, this oil company maintained a monopoly over the oil industry.
What is Standard Oil?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This 1896 Supreme Court case made official the practice of segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1890 act restricted the reach and influence of monopolies and trusts, yet was often used to prosecute labor unions.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This company hired majority Chinese immigrants to build the transcontinental railroad from the west to the east off the Atlantic Coast.
What is the Central Pacific Railroad Company?
This business practice, popularized by John D. Rockefeller, pertained to the consolidating and acquiring of competition to establish a monopoly in a particular industry.
What is Horizontal Integration?
As opposed to the immigrants from the early to mid 1800's, the majority of immigration in the late 1800's consisted of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe; for the most part, less educated, less adept to American society, and more persecuted than the previous immigrants.
What are the New Immigrants?
This legal statute in many Southern states only granted suffrage to men whose ancestors had voted in the election of 1860. As African-Americans couldn't have voted in that election, this clause was used to deprive from them the right to vote.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
This labor union of skilled and unskilled laborers, founded in 1869, was dissolved following their "involvement" in the Haymarket bombing.
What is the Knights of Labor?
This famous Native American chieftain famously defeated General George Custer at the Battle of Littlebighorn
Who is Crazy Horse?
This doctrine of Andrew Carnegie's stated that it was the wealthy's duty to grace the community with their riches and give back to them.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
In 1889, this woman helped the masses of New Immigrants coming into the US through her Hull House and aided in establishing settlement houses in America.
Who is Jane Addams?
This series of acts, passed from 1870 to 1871, protected the rights of persecuted African-Americans in the South by allowing for the prosecution and takedown of the Ku Klux Klan.
What are the Force Acts?
This 1886 Supreme Court case saw the affirmation of the idea that only the federal government could regulate interstate commerce.
What is Wabash v. Illinois?
This precursor to the Populist Party, established in 1867, promoted the rights of farmers, particularly against the growing influence of the railroads.
What is the Grange?
This cataclysmic economic crisis was brought on by over-speculation in the railroad industry and company failures. Influential banker JP Morgan bailed out the federal government by buying their gold reserves, preventing a default amidst the crisis.
Who is Panic of 1893?
This Progressive Reformer got his start in 1890 after publishing his book How the Other Half Lives, detailing the struggles and hardships faced in the tenement housing of New York.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This senator from Mississippi was the first of African-American descent to be elected.
Who is Hiram Revels?
The 1894 Pullman Railroad strike saw the debut of this labor union leader on the national stage with his leadership during the strike.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
This American writer penned the Frontier Thesis in 1893, arguing that the history of the US is the history of that nation expanding West
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
This new process for producing steel allowed for its mass production and popularization under titan of industry Andrew Carnegie.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This famous cartoonist exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed contributing to his arrest.
Who is Thomas Nast?