Gilded Age Politics
This election resulted in the ultimate end of the Reconstructionn Era when troops were removed as part of the compromise.
What is the election of 1876.
Name for collective bargaining units.
What is a Labor Union?
Law that provided 160 acre plots of land to settlers out west.
What is the Homestead Act.
The most common, and effective, method used by labor unions.
What are Strikes.
Group of paid mercenaries during the Gilded Age used often to break of strikes.
This law forced the Native American tribes like the Sioux to cede their communal lands and divide them into private, individual parcels.
What is Dawes Severalty Act.
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Name the processes used by Carnegie to mass produce steel.
What is the Bessemer Process.
The political movement that preceded the Progressive Era, but included ideas like the silver standard, direct election of senators, and government control of the railroads.
What is the populist movement.
To become like the dominiate group in a nation or area (willingly or unwillingly).
What is assimilation.
This cartoonist is credited with the arrest of "Boss" Tweed due to his slanderous political cartoons.
Who is Thomas Nast.
This strike occured at one of Andrew Carnegie's steel plants. Pinkertons were brought in and violence ensured. Name this strike.
Homestead Strike.
Name the financier who bailed out the U.S. treasury. He invested in railroads, and electricity with Edison, and eventually bought U.S. Steel.
Who is J.P. Morgan.
The first large-scale, organized agrarian movement of the 19th century.
What is the Granger Movement.
Explain the meaning behind the term "Gilded Age" and who coined this term.
Mark Twain. Not a complement.
Explain why immigrants were often disliked by labor unions.
Multiple responses, but should indicate that immigrants were generally willing to work for less, thereby undermining union goals.
Andrew Carnegie wrote a book wherin he incouraged wealthy Americans to use their wealth in a certain way. Name this book, and describe the general message.
Gospel of Wealth -- The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
Explain why the Crittenden Compromise was rejected by Lincoln.
It involved the extension of slavery west along the original Missouri Compromise line and Lincoln was opposed to the spread of slavery.
This man authored a the Frontier Thesis on American westward expansion upon learning that the frontier was "closed" to settlement as the last Homestead was claimed.
Who is Fredrick Jackson Turner.