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Bonanza farms are....
What are large commercial wheat farms usually in the Great Plains region of the USA.
The belief that people are born biologically superior; known for the phrase, "survival of the fittest" and ideas of competition.
What is Social Darwinism?
Jim Crow laws in the South started in this year.
When is 1870?
Founded by Jane Addams in support of many social reform movements, this acted as a community center for immigrants and the urban poor.
What is the Hull House?
The first federal agency made to regulate trade between states, especially targeting railroad companies.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)?
A business strategy where a company expands by acquiring or merging with other companies at the same stage of production. This is seen in Rockefeller's oil business.
What is horizontal integration?
Bonus point if you can tell me what vertical integration is.
A supreme court case that upheld the ideas of "separate but equal," legalizing segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
A violent clash at a labor rally who advocated for an 8-hour workday and was sparked by a bomb being thrown into a crowd resulting in many casualties.
What is the Haymarket Affair (1886)?
Andrew Carnegie's philosophy that the mega wealthy have the moral obligation to give back to their communities with acts of philanthropy.
What is the "Gospel of Wealth?"
The authorization of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad by merging western and eastern railways together. This act promoted the building of western railways.
What is the Pacific Railway Act (1862)?
Founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886, this federation of labor unions focused on the improvement of wages, hours, and conditions for skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Bonus point if you can tell me how this was done.
A federal law that banned all immigration from China for 10 years, fueled by economic fear and racism.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Bonus points if you know the date.
A Danish-American journalist who pioneered photojournalism and social reformer, focused on the slums of New York.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Bonus points if you know the name of his book.
"New Immigrants" were primarily migrants from these countries.
Bonus points if you know the dates they migrated to the USA.
Where is Southeastern Europe (Italy, Poland, Romania, etc)?
When is 1866 to 1915?
A supreme court case that upheld the right of states to regulate private industries that serve the public.
What is Munn v. Illinois (1877)?
America's first major labor union whose goal was to unite all workers and advocate for better conditions for all workers.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
Advocate for African Americans to focus on economic independence and vocational training to promote racial equality.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
An act that broke apart communal tribal land into individual plots or allotments for Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
An act that encouraged westward development by providing individuals with 160 acres of federal land to anyone who improved the land within 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The first federal law to outlaw monopolistic business practices in order to maintain fair competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)?
A supreme court case that found the Sherman Antitrust Act as constitutional but limited it to interstate commerce and not intrastate commerce.
What is United States v. E.C. Knight Co (1895)?
A leading black intellectual and activist who advocated for immediate civil rights and cofounded the NAACP.
Who is WEB Dubois?
This brutal killing of hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux by the US army marked the official end of the Plains Indian Wars and was fueled by the Ghost Dance movement.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)?
What is the Social Gospel?
This supreme court case declared that states did not have the authority to regulate interstate commerce, especially in regard to railway rates.
What is Wabash v. Illinois (1886)?