Government
This type of government interference led to protests by citizens of the country.
What is corruption?
These segregation laws were adopted throughout the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell developed this invention.
What is the telephone?
Immigrants from Asia migrated to this state after the discovery of this material.
What is gold?
Who is Mark Twain?
The assassination of this president in 1881 caused public outrage.
Who is President Garfield
This act was designed to break up tribal organizations and kept many Native Americans from becoming US citizens.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887?
The Civil War ended in this year, marking the start of Period 6.
What is 1865?
Congress was pushed into saving this Western icon because of the breathtaking paintings and photographs.
What is Yosemite Valley?
This African American scientist, who shared a name with a former president, had an important role in shifting the Southern agricultural field into a more diverse base.
Who is George Washington Carver?
The government supported progress in railroad companies by giving more than 80 railroad companies 170 millions acres of land in this type of grant.
What are Federal Land Grants?
This act, along with the Forest Reserve Act of 1891, withdrew federal timberland from development and regulated their use.
What is the Forest Management Act of 1897?
Railroad time, which divided the country into 4 separate time zones as opposed to the prior 144, was created by this association.
What is the American Railroad Association (ARA)?
Tribes in this area such as the Chinook and Shasta developed complex communities based on abundant fish and game.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
This manager of Andrew Carnegie's homestead steel plant near Pittsburg precipitated a strike in 1892 by cutting wages by nearly 20%.
Who is Henry Clay Frick?
This "game" was played by politicians when they gave loyal people party jobs in offices.
What is Party Patronage?
This essay written by Fredrick Jackson Turner was on the significance of the frontier in American history.
What is Turner's Frontier Thesis?
This is one of the worst labor violence outbreaks occurring in 1887 because of railroad companies cutting wages..
What was the Great Railroad Strike of 1887?
The Democratic party was able to count on the votes of every state that was formerly part of the Confederacy, giving the region this nickname based on its location.
What is the "Solid South"?
This well-known preservationist was a leading founder of the Sierra Club.
Who is John Muir?
Reform-minded politicians that did not participate in giving political party jobs to those who were loyal were referred to by this slang name.
What is a Mugwump?
The injustices done to Native Americans were chronicled in this bestselling book by Helen Hunt Jackson.
What is A Century of Dishonor?
President William McKinley was given this title in 1896 due to the fact that he had helped steer the nation's foreign affairs back into a power position on the international scale.
What is the "First Modern President"?
In 1893, more than 12 million people attended the World's fair known as the World's Colombian Exposition in this city.
What is Chicago?
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1886 was founded by this woman.
Who is Samuel Gompers?