Gilded Age
This period was known for rapid industrial growth, great wealth, and serious social problems.
What is the Gilded Age?
Workers joined these organizations to demand safer workplaces, better pay, and shorter hours.
What are unions?
This movement sought to improve conditions for farmers and ordinary people.
What is Populism?
This 1887 law divided some Native American reservation lands into individual allotments.
What is the Dawes Act?
This 1862 law offered 160 acres of public land to settlers who agreed to live on and improve it.
What is the Homestead Act?
These crowded apartment buildings were often home to immigrant and working-class families.
What are tenements?
This labor organization sought to unite workers from different occupations and improve working conditions.
What are the Knights of Labor?
This book by Jacob Riis exposed the terrible living conditions of poor immigrants in New York City.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
This was the 1890 killing of the Lakota people by U.S. soldiers.
What is Wounded Knee?
This 1862 law provided federal support for colleges focused on agriculture and mechanical arts.
What is the Morrill Act?
This organization gained political support by providing services and favors in exchange for votes.
What is a political machine?
A walkout of a certain type of job in mass, normally by unions, is called what
What is a Strike
Populists wanted to protect farmers and ordinary people from these powerful economic interests.
What are monopolies and powerful businesses?
The Dawes Act attempted to encourage Native Americans to adopt the customs and practices of this culture.
What is white American culture?
This type of land was given by the government to encourage settlement, transportation, and economic development.
What is a land grant?
Electric lighting and streetcars helped cities grow by changing how Americans did this.
What is traveling and enjoying leisure/entertainment in cities?
his 1880s novel exposed dangerous and unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
Populists supported regulating railroads and changing the money supply mainly to help this group.
Who are farmers?
This 1876 battle was fought between U.S. forces and Native Americans before Wounded Knee.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This railroad system was completed in 1869 and connected the eastern and western United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A company or group that controls nearly all of a market and limits competition is called a monopoly.
What is a monopoly?
The main groups of people targeted for factory work, as they are new to the country, are called what?
What are Immigrants?
Riis's book and Sinclair's novel were important because they helped expose social problems and encouraged this.
What is reform?
The Dawes Act had a major cultural goal of encouraging this process among Native Americans.
What is assimilation?
This government policy encouraged thousands of settlers to move west and establish farms, but also contributed to conflicts over Native American lands.
What is the Homestead Act?