Politics + Industralization
What nickname did Mark Twain give to the era known for its glittering wealth and underlying corruption?
What is the Gilded Age?
What major problems did cities face as they rapidly grew during the Gilded Age?
What are overcrowding, poor sanitation, and crime?
Through which island did most immigrants enter the U.S. on the East Coast?
What is Ellis Island?
What term describes workers joining together to bargain for better conditions?
What is a labor union?
What 1862 law gave settlers free land if they improved it for five years?
What is the Homestead Act?
Who was the famous “boss” of New York City’s Tammany Hall?
Who is William “Boss” Tweed?
What were the laws called that enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction?
What are Jim Crow laws?
Immigrants from Asia often entered through what West Coast location?
What event in Chicago turned violent and hurt the labor movement?
What is the Haymarket Riot?
What was the name of the railroad that connected the East and West coasts?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Who was known as the “Captain of Industry” in steel production?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What was the name of the African American migration from the rural South to northern cities in search of jobs during the late 1800s?
What is the Great Migration?
What were crowded urban apartment buildings called?
What are tenements?
What strike in 1894 stopped railroad traffic nationwide?
What is the Pullman Strike?
What was a major reason settlers moved west after the Civil War?
To own land or find gold.
Which political party represented farmers and wanted government ownership of railroads?
What is the Populist Party?
What organization helped newly arrived immigrants with housing and education?
What is the Settlement House movement?
What law banned Chinese immigration to the U.S.?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)?
What was the name of the 1911 factory fire that led to safety reforms?
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
What term described the belief that the United States was destined to expand across North America?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What term describes a business that controls all production of one product?
What is a monopoly?
What landmark Supreme Court case in 1896 upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal”?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What group of Americans opposed immigration for fear of job competition and cultural change?
Who are nativists?
What did labor unions fight for during the Industrial Era?
Better wages, shorter hours, safer conditions.
What 1876 battle saw a major defeat for U.S. forces by Native Americans led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?