Pre-Civil War
Political party founded by farmers, main candidate was William Jennings Bryan
Populist Party
President of the Union during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Government organization created to helped newly freed slaves and poor whites in the south
Freedman's Bureau
A group of workers who join together to fight for better pay or better working conditions
A union
theory that some individuals were innately better than others and justified their wealth
Social Darwinism
Leader of the Sioux who fought during the Indian Wars
Sitting Bull
Slave who’s supreme court case ruled that African Americans were property
Dred Scott
This group formed to oppose Reconstruction efforts
The Ku Klux Klan
This invention led to more jobs for women in the workplace
Typewriter
Theory that government should not intervene or regulate businesses
Laissez-faire
Law that forced Native American to leave their land and supported the assimilation of Native Americans
Dawes Act
Declared the freedom of all enslaved people in Confederate states
Emancipation Proclamation
these were passed to restrict newly freed slaves rights
black codes, literacy tests, poll taxes (any would work!)
Founder of the Standard Oil Company.
John D. Rockefeller
When a company buys out other small competitors it is called...
Horizontal Integration
Site of the final defeat of the Native Americans on the frontier
Wounded Knee
The military strategy the North blocked off the South from trade
Anaconda Plan
This amendment made all people born in the United States a citizen
The 14th Amendment
Scandal where railroad companies charged stockholders higher prices for construction and kept the extra money
Credit Mobilier
What law broke up monopolies and promoted competition
Sherman Antitrust Act
a monetary system in which a government recognizes coins composed of both gold or silver
bimetalism
The deadliest battle of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
Who became president after Lincoln's assassination?
Andrew Johnson
Union leader who founded the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
the goal of this law was to help the government regulate shipping rates
Interstate Commerce Act