Social Change
This labor union was the most effective and most enduring of the post-Civil War period.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
This man made his fortune in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
When America became industrialized, this founding father's vision for American was realized.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Presidents Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, and Harrison were known as these.
What are the Forgettable Presidents?
The Dawes Act and the Carlisle Indian Industrial Schools had this common purpose.
What is assimilation of Native Americans?
This word means to cover with a thin layer of gold and is used as a metaphor for the late 1800s.
What is gild or gilded?
This man made is fortune in the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This founding father's dream for America was a population of mostly farmers.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Bribery, graft, and fraud were tools of this corrupt boss.
Who is "Boss" Tweed (William Tweed).
This act was intended to promote frontier settlement.
What is the Homestead Act?
This man said, "Thou shalt not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!"
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This man made his fortune in banking.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
Most immigrants arrived at Ellis Island just outside this city on the east coast of the United States.
What is New York City?
This body of Congress was controlled by millionaires who owed their allegiance to corporations instead of their constituents.
What is the Senate?
Ideas about private property created conflict between Native Americans and this country.
What is the United States?
This strike was caused by an increase in rent, but not an increase in pay in a corporate town of the same name.
What is the Pullman strike?
Buying every step of production including resources, manufacturing, and distribution is called this.
What is vertical integration?
While many immigrants wanted to move west, they did not because the only work they could find was wage work in these.
What are factories?
Boss Tweed would "help" immigrants by helping them get jobs and find housing in return for this.
What is votes?
Conflict between farmers and cowboys were caused by these technologies.
What are barbed wire and railroads?
Bimetallism and free coinage of silver were ideas promoted by this political party.
What is the Populist Party?
Merging companies that produce similar products is known as this.
What is horizontal integration?
Small apartments, usually shared by multiple families, are called this.
What are tenements?
Political corruption was one of the reasons the late 1800s is referred to as this, a term coined by Mark Twain.
What is the Gilded Age?
This battle marked the end of a long and bitter struggle between Native Americans and the United States.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?