Vocabulary
Politics
Laws
People
Labor Movements
100
Vast grasslands located in the center of North America.
What is the Great Plains?
100
An organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city; offered services in exchange for votes.
What are political machines?
100
Offered 160 acres of free land to any citizen who would move West
What is the Homestead Act?
100
Revolutionized steel industry, business fueled economy, rich dude
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
The labor union that was open to all workers regardless of race (except for Asians), gender, or degree of skill; wanted equal pay for men and women; supported an 8-hour work day
What is the Knights of Labor?
200
Economic reforms included increase in money supply, graduated income tax and a federal loan program. After it dissolved it left reforms that were carried out later in the 20th century.
What is populism?
200
Monetary system in which government would only back paper currency with gold; less money available with more value per dollar; favored by William McKinley
What is the Gold Standard?
200
Broke up reservations and gave some reservation land to individual Native Americans
What is the Dawes Act?
200
What was Rockefeller known for; a major achievement he did
What is oil/owning a major oil company; what is a pipeline system to transport oil?
200
What are some major characteristics of the Industrial Workers of the World?
What is founded by radical workers and socialists, advocated government control of business and property for equal distribution of wealth, and had members known as Wobblies?
300
An economic downturn throughout the US, farmers had large amounts of debt, railroads went bankrupt, the price of silver plunged, thousands of businesses and banks collapsed.
What is the Panic of 1893?
300
Monetary system in which government would back paper currency with gold and silver; more money available with less value per dollar; favored by William Jennings Bryan
What is Bimetallism?
300
This act was passed when businessmen made it hard and expensive to sell goods on railroads; caused grangers to be upset and complain to their congress representatives; has a 5 member team
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
300
Who was William McKinley?
Who is the republican candidate that ran for president in the election of 1896, and favored the gold standard?
300
What is strike that was used to protest police brutality, and led to somebody throwing a bomb into the police line?
What is Haymarket Riot?
400
Were called _________ because they were rich while others were poor.
What is Robber Barons?
400
Stated that a man could vote if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote before January 1, 1867
What is the Grandfather Clause?
400
Stated that people have to pass competitive exams to get jobs in the government; stops patronage
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
400
Democratic candidate for president in the election on 1896
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
400
What is the Homestead Strike?
What is the strike in which workers at the Carnegie Steel Company did to protest cut wages? -Workers kept the plant closed until the Pennsylvania National Guard arrived -When the strike ended, the union had lost much of its support
500
Giving out government jobs to reward political support.
What is patronage?
500
State the name of the most famous political machine, the city it is located in, and the major boss of this political machine
What is Tammany Hall, NYC, William M. Tweed
500
What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act do?
What act can't monopolize trade, maintains free trade, and allowed equality within businesses?
500
Was a leader of a group of Sioux Indians. Distrusted the US government and white settlers until his death in 1890
Who is the Sitting Bull?
500
What are labor unions, and what grievances did the laborers' have (list at least 5)?
What is an organization formed by workers to advocate for change and to protect their interests; seven day work-week, 12+ hours of work per day, not entitled to vacation, no sick leave, no unemployment compensation, no reimbursement for injuries, poor working conditions, low wages
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