The Closing of the Frontier
This large mammal provided the American Indians of the Great Plains with plenty of food and material
What is the Buffalo?
These laws passed in the southern United States segregated African American in all areas of public life
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This word, a synonym for monopoly was used to describe the vast wealth of Robber Barons during the Gilded Age
What is a trust?
This style of organization is when many workers join together to bargain for better pay and conditions
What is a union?
This immigration station located in New York City has welcomed 33% of citizens to the United States
What is Ellis Island?
Completed in 1869, this innovation allowed Americans to move from the East Coast to the West Coast in a week.
This court case finalized in 1896 determined that "separate but equal" facilities were legal on public train cars.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Different from a partnership, this business structure allows a company to have limited liability and perpetual life
What is a corporation?
This organization was one of the first unions. They were more welcoming than later unions like the American Federation of Labor
Who are the Knights of Labor?
This uncomfortable dwelling had many immigrants piled into small dark rooms together. Often disease infected many residents
What is a tenement building?
This law passed in 1862 granted 160 acre plots of land to settlers who improved the plot over a five year period.
What is the Homestead Act?
The "New South" referred to the fact that the South needed to do this. Something accomplished by the North 50 years earlier.
What is industrialize?
This style of business structure requires a company to control every step of their business from start to finish. Including raw materials, manufacturing, and transport.
What is vertical integration?
This group of farmers organized to provide more educational, social, and cultural opportunities for rural Americans
Who are the Grangers?
This Nativist law led to the exclusion of many immigrants from Asia starting in 1892
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The Treaty of Fort Laramie
This African-American reformer was the leader of Tuskegee Institute and desired that African-Americans pursue education and vocation rather than Civil Rights
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This economic policy requires that government keep a limited approach to running the market. They should be more hands off.
What is Laissez-faire economics?
This labor movement connected to Andrew Carnegie led to the death of nine union members at the hands of Pinkerton agents and Henry Clay Frick
What is the Homestead Strike?
Jacob Riis, a photojournalist, took many pictures of new immigrants in this book published in 1890
What is How the Other Half Lives?
This silver deposit located in Nevada transformed the lives of many settlers starting in 1859
What is the Comstock Lode?
What is a convict lease?
The Gospel of Wealth, the idea that the wealthy should use their money for public acts was pioneered by which Titan of Industry?
This charismatic leader of the Socialist Party led the Pullman Strike and used nonviolence to get workers additional rights
Who is Eugene v. Debs?
This law, passed in 1883 required that those working in the federal government needed to be hired on merit not because of personal connections
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?