Industrialization and Big Business
This industry, led by Andrew Carnegie, dominated steel production.
What is the steel industry?
This 1862 act gave free land to settlers willing to farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
These overcrowded apartment buildings housed many immigrants.
What are tenements?
This system rewarded government jobs to political supporters.
What is the spoils system (Patronage)?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This business strategy involves controlling all aspects of production.
What is vertical integration?
This was completed in 1869 at Promontory Point.
What is the First Transcontinental Railroad?
This organization helped immigrants adjust to city life, led by Jane Addams.
What is Hull House (settlement houses)?
This act reformed the civil service system with merit-based hiring.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation was legal under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This act was passed to regulate railroads and prevent unfair practices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This conflict in 1876 involved George Armstrong Custer and the Lakota Sioux. (Known as Custer's Last Stand)
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This law restricted Chinese immigration in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These were taxes on imported goods, often debated in this era.
What are protective tariffs?
The case Northern Securities v. The US led to the creation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 which was wrongly used against these for 10 years.
What are labor unions?
Name the oil tycoon who founded Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This policy (law) aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands.
What is the Dawes Act?
These political machines traded services for votes; one famous example was Tammany Hall.
What are political machines?
This term describes government policies that favor big business with little regulation.
What is laissez-faire?
This SCOTUS case ruled that states could not regulate interstate commerce.
What is Munn v. Illinois?
This idea justified wealth inequality as natural and beneficial.
What is Social Darwinism?
This event in 1890 marked the end of major armed Native resistance.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This term describes the belief that native-born Americans were superior to immigrants.
What is nativism?
This political scandal during Ulysses S. Grant’s presidency involved railroad companies bribing government officials.
What is the Crédit Mobilier Scandal?
The Supreme Court limited the power of the 14th Amendment by ruling it only applied to what?
What is the law (not individuals)?