Industrialization
The West
Labor
Immigration
Potpourri
100
A consolidation of the stocks of competing companies to be managed by one board of directors.
What is a trust?
100
Increased the population of cities like Los Angeles and Seattle.
What is the railroad?
100
Labor union founded by Samuel Gompers.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
100
They were barred from entry into the United States in 1882.
Who were the Chinese?
100
He pushed Black economic independence and hard work rather than openly pushing for racial equality.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
200
The combining into one organization all phases of manufacturing from mining to marketing.
What is vertical integration?
200
This movement largely ended with the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.
What is the Ghost Dance?
200
Hands-on people who were not included by Gompers.
Who are unskilled workers?
200
This political machine provided services to immigrants in New York from the 1850s to the 1930s.
What was Tammany Hall?
200
Its followers believed it was the role of the church to fix societal ills.
What was the social gospel movement?
300
He justified his wealth but felt he had to prove himself morally responsible.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
300
A policy giving Native Americans farms, dissolving tribal identities in exchange for eventual citizenship.
What is the Dawes Act?
300
They included men and women, blacks and whites, but couldn't survive the Haymarket Square Riot in 1886.
Who were the Knights of Labor?
300
Unlike the new immigrants, most of the old immigrants were of this religious persuasion.
Who are Protestants?
300
A leading Lakota chief and victor at the Battle of Little BigHorn.
Who was Sitting Bull?
400
These were examples of government regulation but were very weakly enforced before 1900.
What were the Interstate Commerce Act and Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
400
Popular in the West, they grew out of the Farmers' Alliances and called for nationalizing railroads among other things.
What is the Populist Party?
400
From 1881 to 1900 there were over 23,000 of these including 6,610,000 workers.
What are strikes?
400
The region which received the fewest number of immigrants from 1870-1900.
What is the South?
400
Belief used to argue against direct aid to the poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
He pushed for the increased commercialization and industrialization of the South.
Who was Henry Grady?
500
Founded by John Muir to preserve the wildness of the western landscape.
What is the Sierra Club?
500
Most labor unions supported this number.
What is the eight hour work day?
500
The two most famous immigrant processing centers in US history.
What are Ellis and Angel Island?
500
It established the Civil Service Commission to make appointments to federal jobs on the basis of competitive examinations.
What is the Pendleton Act of 1883?
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