Industrialization
Political Paralysis
The Last Frontier
Urbanization and Reform
Immigration
100
In this article, Andrew Carnegie expressed the wealthy were morally obligated to use some of their wealth for the improvement of society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
100
The Credit Mobilier and the Whiskey Ring scandals tarnished the administration of this president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
Location in Utah where the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads met completing the first transcontinental railroad.
What is Promontory Point?
100
The idea that the good morals of Christianity could improve the lives of the urban poor.
What is the Social Gospel?
100
A new stream of immigrants who began to arrive during the early 20th century from southern and eastern Europe.
What are "new immigrants"
200
Andrew Carnegie's use of this type business consolidation allowed a capitalist to control all aspects of the production process.
What is vertical integration?
200
This act, passed under President Arthur, was the first civil service reform that dealt with the problems of patronage and nepotism in government hiring practices.
What is the Pendleton Act?
200
After General Custer declared that gold had been found in the Black Hills of South Dakota, hordes of greedy gold-seekers swarmed into Sioux lands. The Sioux, along with the Cheyenne and the Arapaho, attacked and soundly defeated Custer at this battle in 1876.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
200
A new form of housing named for the outline of its floor plan that was developed after a law required that all bedrooms in apartments have a window.
What are the "dumbbell" tenements?
200
This law passed in 1882 closed the door on Chinese immigration for over 50 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
This oil tycoon used horizontal integration, holding companies, and trusts to gain control of 90% of the nation's oil market.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
This Republican presidential candidate was able to defeat President Grover Cleveland by convincing many voters that lowering the tariff would destroy business prosperity and lead to mass unemployment.
Who is Benjamin Harrison?
300
In an attempt to force assimilation, the federal government outlawed the Sun Dance, a sacred religious practice. When the Dakota Sioux continued the ritual the US army massacred 200 Indian men, women, and children at this so-called battle.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
300
These allowed people to live miles from their jobs and easily commute to city centers for work.
What are streetcars?
300
She started Hull House in Chicago which was a settlement house meant to relieve the effects of poverty by providing social services for the poor.
Who is Jane Addams?
400
Herbert Spencer's belief that Darwin's theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest should be applied to the economic marketplace. By concentrating the wealth in the hands of the "fit" it would benefit all of society.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
The Panic of 1873 led to a debate over the use of "hard" versus "soft" currency which was ultimately won by the "hard" money advocates through this act which withdrew the last of the greenbacks from circulation.
What is the Specie Resumption Act?
400
Designed to break up tribal organizations, which many felt kept Native Americans from becoming "civilized" and law-abiding citizens, this law divided up land to families and if they "adopted the habits of civilized life," they would be granted the land and citizenship.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
400
This organization was founded, by long time women's rights activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, after the Civil War when suffragettes renewed their battle for the vote.
What is the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
400
Political organizations, such as Tammany Hall in New York City, that would find jobs and apartments for newly arrived immigrants in exchange for votes.
What are political machines?
500
This strike at the Carnegie Steel Company was crushed by Henry Clay Fricke and hired Pinkertons.
What is the Homestead Strike?
500
The Compromise of 1877 gave the election to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for removing all federal troops from the South which ultimately ended this period.
What is Reconstruction?
500
This industry became the symbol of agrarian discontent in the post-Civil War period.
What are railway companies?
500
The first African American to graduate with a Ph.D. from Harvard, he demanded complete equality for blacks, social as well as economic, and helped form the NAACP in 1909.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
500
This nativist organization, reminiscent of the "Know-Nothings," urged voters against Roman Catholic candidates and were joined by labor unions in their efforts to restrict immigration.
What is the American Protective Association (APA)?
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