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What famous railroad connected the East and West coasts?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This political party aimed to improve the conditions for the countries farmers and Agrarian workers.
What is the Populists Party?
Which famous robber baron is known for establishing the Standard Oil Company?
Who is John D. Rockerfeller?
How many acres of public land did the homestead act promise to provide, as long as the family that lived there improved upon the land for 5 years?
What is 160 acres?
A native American religious movement for hope and cultural revival. U.S government saw it as a threat.
What is The Ghost Dance?
What immigrant groups predominantly worked on the Transcontinental Railroad?
Who are the Irish and Chinese?
What did the Granger Laws Regulate?
What are railroad and grain elevator companies?
Industrialist who led the expansion of the steel industry and prompted the gospel of wealth.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Supreme Court ruling testing that decided segregation was constitutional as long as it was “separate but equal"
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
Early labor union advocating for workers rights, including an 8-hour work day.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
Aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into private plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
Populists proposed this measure, which would give wealthy individuals a higher tax rate.
What is increased income tax?
Leader of the American federation of labor (AFL), focused on improving conditions and wages for skilled workers.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
In the Election of 1896, William McKinley's campaign party promoted this monetary system.
What is the Gold Standard?
A religious movement from 1820 to 1920, common among liberal protestant liberals.
What is the Social Gospel?
Group opposing U.S. expansion and imperialism especially in the Philippines.
Who are the Anti-Imperialist League?
What were the goals of the Patrons of Husbandry?
What are further advances in agriculture, and the promotion of the social and economic well being of Farmers?
21st President of the U.S, known for supporting and advancing civil service reforms, and signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in 1883.
Who is President Chester Alan Arthur?
The first federal law regulating the unfair railroad practices, targeting monopolies and discrimination.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Railroad workers strike in 1894, primarily against the _________. Took place in Chicago, where workers protested against wage cuts.
What is the Pullman Palace Car Company?
A powerful nativist organization against Catholics, specifically Irish immigrants and Catholic Churches.
What is the American Protective Association?
A plan that proposed a system where farmer’s could store their crops in government-owned warehouses and would receive low interest rates.
What is the Subtreasury Plan?
President of the American Railroad Union, led a strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company?
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
A federal law that established a merit-based system for hiring and promoting government employees, ending the widespread use of the spoils system.
What is the Pendleton Act of 1883?
What was the book and author that exposed unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry leading to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
What is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?