Ch. 23
What was the case that legally established segregation in the United States?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan are examples of what?
Robber Barons
What three main countries were immigrating to the U.S is the 1880-90's?
German, English, Irish
What act limited the land rights of Native Americans and allowed for people to go on their reservations?
Dawes Severalty Act
What was the process that kept former slaves in a cycle of debt on southern plantations?
Sharecropping
What act gave congress the power to regulate foreign trade?
Interstate Commerce Act
What was the act passes to prevent Chinese immigration?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
What species was hunted nearly to extinction as a result of western expansion?
Bison
What were the segregation laws in the south called?
Jim Crow Laws
What was it called when a small company buys a stake in a larger company?
Trust
What was the name of the first all African American engineering school?
Tuskegee Institute
What was the line that devided the humid east and arid West in the United States?
100th Meridian
What was the strike in the involving Henry C. Frick and the workers of this Pittsburgh area steel mill?
The Homestead Strike
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Gram Bell
What was the journalism practice of over exaggerating events to encourage people to buy newspapers?
Yellow Journalism
Which financial concept helped farmers who were in Debt?
Inflation
What was the act that established merit based evaluation of government officials?
Pendleton Act
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
Which group of Christian Americans rejected Charles Darwin's ideas?
Conservative Christians
What strike lead to the creation of the American Railway Union?
Pullman Strike