Vocab
A railroad system that ran across the United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This invention in the 1870s ended open range by allowing farmers to fence in their land cheaply.
An American industrialist and philanthropist, Worlds first billionaire, and founded the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
A law that divided Indian reservation lands into several private plots.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887?
Political party that represented farmers and laborers and called for free silver, government control of railroads and direct election of senators.
What is the Populist party?
When a company buys competing companies in order to be the lone seller of said product.
What is horizontal integration?
This organization aimed to support struggling farmers with education, cooperation and lobbying for railroad regulation.
What is the Grange Movement?
26th President of the United States who helped push forward the Progressive Movement.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This was the first major restriction on free immigration in U.S. history and it banned Chinese immigrants from entering the country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This labor strike turned violent in Chicago and led to the decline of the Knights of Labor.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
A steel making method that involves blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities and carbon.
What is the bessemer process?
This spiritual movement sought to bring back the buffalo and get rid of white settlers.
What is the Ghost Dance?
An African American educator who had controversial views on segregation and advocated for self-reliance for African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Railroad car company workers rebelled after their wages were cut and rent remained high.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This law was the first federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
It resulted in the The Supreme Court upholding the state law, finding it constitutional as long as the facilities were "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
In 1893, this historian argued that the closing of the frontier marked the end of a vital era in American Development.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
An American politician who ran Tammany Hall and was known for having corrupt morals.
Who is Boss Tweed?
Massacre of 300 Lakota people by the U.S. army which ended the American Indian Wars.
What is Wounded Knee?
This processing center in NY harbor was the entry point for millions of immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
A US federal law designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
The founder of Hull House and advocate for the working poor.
Who is Jane Addams?
A major financial crisis that lasted 4 years and triggered a major economic depression in the U.S.
What is the Panic of 1893?
Corrupt city politicians who used bribery and patronage to control local governments.
What are political machines?