Politics
This banned Chinese employment and organized boycotts of Chinese labor.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)?
The U.S. economy sunk into deep depression from 1893-1897 leaving 25% of Americans unemployed.
What is the Panic of 1893?
Law that was passed that created the ICC that supervised the railroads.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This term means artificially covered with gold on the outside, but not golden on the inside.
What is Gilded?
The significance of the 1491 date in AP U.S. History is...
What is the year before Columbus? (Columbian Exchange)
In the Election of 1876, Samuel Tilden won the popular vote but a special commission awarded someone else the presidency.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Wages were cut but rent was not lowered for railroad workers leading to this event.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This would not be overturned until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
This would be the final major battlefield clash of the federal government and Native American conflicts in the West.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
This event marks the importance of 1848 in AP United States History.
What is Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo? (Movement toward Civil War)
This disbanded the reservation system formally used for Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
This protest, involving the Knights of Labor Union, over an eight hour work year led to a bomb being thrown and the death of seven Chicago police officers.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
This court case established the principle "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
In William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, he defended ___________.
What is bimetallism?
This event marks the importance of the 1800 date in AP U.S. History.
What is Jefferson's election; the first peaceful transfer of power in the United States?
There were four major demands (Ocala Demands) by the Populist Party. Name one.
What are the direct election of senators, a graduated income tax, and a new banking system regulated by the federal government?
What is "The Great Railroad Strike of 1877"?
This case established the federal government's right to regulate private industry to serve the public interest.
What is Munn v. Illinois (1877)?
This author claimed that the frontier experience had helped from American culture and identity by promoting independence and individualism.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner in his "Frontier Thesis" (1893)?
This event marks the importance of 1754 in the APUSH curriculum.
What is the French and Indian War (Seven Year's War) 1754-1763?
"The People's Party" emerged in the 1890's due to economic hardships of farmers and laborers.
What is Populism?
The spoils system led to increased governmental corruption. This was passed to establish a civil service commission to make appointments through a merit system.
What is the Pendelton Civil Service Act?
This made trusts and monopolies illegal.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The rise of this lead to calls from smaller businesses, farmers, and workers for government regulation of the economy to promote competition and free enterprise.
What is the rise of Big Business?
This event marks the importance of the year 1607 in the APUSH curriculum.
What is the founding of Jamestown?