Economics
The name of the railroad that expanded the national market
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The refusal to buy goods/service as a protest is referred to as ...
What is a boycott?
The process of becoming similar to something/someone.
What is assimilation?
The trail that cattle drives follow.
What is a Long Drive?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
The term used for good businessmen
What are Captains of Industry?
High amounts of exploitation and unsafe conditions in the work place contributed to the growth of these organizations.
What are labor unions?
Most immigrants came from these regions of Europe.
What are the Eastern & Southern regions?
This was the last major gold rush.
The coinage of silver
What is Free Silver?
Cornelius Vanderbilt gained his wealth of this industry
What is the railroad?
Agreements on wages, hours, and working conditions are the three components under this umbrella term.
What are "Bread and Butter" issues?
This type of housing system was built as a response to rapid industrialization but was often overcrowded & unsanitary.
What is tenement housing?
This advancement helped increase production for farmers across the Great Plains.
What is mechanization?
This court case established the idea of separate but equal.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
The french word which describes the economy during the Gilded Age
What is laissez-faire?
This process paved the way for the fortune of Andrew Carnegie.
What is the Bessemer Steel Process?
The name given to corrupt political machines located in NY during the late 1800s
What was Tammany Hall?
- Settlers 21+
- Must build a house & live on the land for 5+ yrs
- Must improve the land
This list describes ...
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
The name of William Jennings Bryan's famous Gilded-Age speech.
What was the Cross of Gold?
This term is referenced in the phrase "survival of the fittest."
What is Social Darwinism?
The Pullman Strike of 1894 was triggered as a result of pay cuts in this industry.
What is the railroad industry?
This belief favors the interests of native-born people over immigrants.
What is nativism?
This act promoted cultural assimilation of American Indians
What was the Dawes Act of 1887?
The rise of this political party was a result of frustrated farmers and aimed to favor the common man over elites to have greater control of the government
What is the Populist party?