Settlement of the West
The New South
Farmers
Big Business
Labor Problems
100
The builders of the transcontinental railroad were mostly immigrants from what part of the world?
What is Asia?
100
After the Civil War this was made legal under Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Segregation
100
The Big Business who controlled farmers because of farmers dependence on transporting their crops to distant markets.
What are Railroads
100
The king of the Oil Industry during the Industrial Revolution.
Who is John Rockefeller
100
The first major labor union in the United States.
Who are the Knight of Labor
200
This is the name of the last major Native American victory over American soldiers.
What is Custer's Last Stand or the Battle of Little Bighorn.
200
This man believed that civil rights could only be achieved through demanding equality through the court system
Who is W.E.B. Dubois
200
The majority of immigrants in the late 19th early 20th centuries came from these regions in Europe
What are Southern and Eastern Europe
200
Many believers in the Gospel of Wealth based their beliefs off of the discoveries of this scientist who studied natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin
200
An example of a conflict between labor and management that took place at Andrew Carnegie's Steel Plant.
What is the Homestead Strike
300
This is the name of the major railroad that spanned from East coast to West Coast
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
300
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.
What is Sharecropping
300
Farmers opposed this, which backed up every dollar with a precious metal?
What is the gold standard
300
An example of political corruption at the state and local level who exchanged favors for votes.
What are Political Machines
300
Group of people who began to organize and to fight for better conditions in Industrial cities.
Who is Labor or Factory Workers
400
This act was passed that gave free or cheap land to anyone willing to set up a farm in the West
What is the Homestead Act
400
This was the goal of the New South.
What is to Industrialize like the North
400
Farmers wanted this, a rise in the production of money, to allow them to pay back their loans.
What is Inflation
400
This French word is the idea that the government should stay out of economic affairs
What is Laissez-faire
400
This union was led by Samuel Gompers which was the most powerful union of the 19th century.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
500
The building of the Transcontinental Railroad was part of this deal that ended Reconstruction and put Rutherford B. Hayes into office.
What is the Compromise of 1877
500
Laws created in the South to enforce Segregation after Reconstruction ended.
What are Jim Crow Laws
500
The demand for free silver and the end to the gold standard led by small farmers led to this movement and political party.
What is the Populist Party/Populism
500
Whenever a company controls all means of production, it is called this.
What is a monopoly?
500
The idea of a union negotiating the pay of workers rather than individual workers.
What is collective bargaining
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