Politics
A late-19th-century political movement demanding that people have a greater voice in government and seeking to advance the interests of farmers and laborers
What is Populism?
This famous inventor is credited with developing the first practical light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The region of the United States where most farming, ranching, and settling happened after the Civil War.
What is the Great Plains?
This term refers to the additional wave of inventions and manufacturing that swept America in the late 1800s, including the newfound use of electricity in the production process.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
Known for his dominance over the U.S. steel industry, this man was known as both a ruthless business owner but also a generous philanthropist.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
A law, enacted in 1882, that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials from entering the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
This railroad connected the East and West Coasts of America for the very first time, linking the entire country by rail.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
A cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This President led America into the Spanish-American War and was in office during a period where the US experienced rapid economic and territorial growth.
Who is William McKinley?
An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
What is a Labor Union?
Known as the "richest American to ever live", this tycoon dominated the oil industry in the late 19th Century.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This famous trail brought cattle from South Texas up to train stations in Oklahoma and Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
A term meaning a mixture of people from different cultures and races who blend together by abandoning their native languages and cultures.
What is a melting pot?
The founder of the AFL, this man became a famous advocate for workers' rights.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
A U.S. law enacted in 1862, that provided 160 acres in the West to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux tribe who led his people's resistance against the United States.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This battle, which has been more accurately described as a massacre, ended the American Indian Wars.
This immigration station welcomed foreigners into the United States on the West Coast.
What is Angel Island?
Groups of farmers, or those in sympathy with farming issues, who sent lecturers from town to town to educate people about agricultural and rural issues.
What are Farmers' Alliances?
The policy of extending a nation’s authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means.
What is imperialism?
This populist politician became even more beloved after his "Cross of Gold" speech in 1896.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
The nickname for the trip cowboys, along with their herds of cattle, made each year.
What is the long drive?
An economic and social philosophy - supposedly based on the theory of evolution by natural selection - holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism?
A minority group’s adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture.
What is assimilation?