This group helped found universities and schools for freedmen and the children of freedmen, as well as carried out other Reconstruction programs.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
The government issued this type of currency during the Civil War, only to take it out of circulation in the years following, causing significant financial damage to some farmers.
What are greenbacks?
100
This man once worked for Thomas Edison, and some claim that he should be given credit for some of the innovations that Edison is credited with.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
100
Many immigrants in the late 19th century came to the United States from this country, and a good number planned to return.
What is Italy?
100
An organized group that controls the actions of a political party.
What is a political machine?
200
This constitutional amendment guaranteed the right of all to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
200
This movement educated farmers about financial decisions, debt, and helped them organize against railroads.
What are the farmers' alliances?
200
This idea, based on biological theories, supported the notion of laissez faire/free market economics.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
This event in 1877, which originally started out as a general strike for the 8 hour workday, resulted in a violent melee on the streets of Chicago.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
200
The illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
What is graft?
300
This was the name given to Southerners who joined the Republic party during Reconstruction.
What are scalawags?
300
Populists argued for this major change to the electoral structure of the US government.
What is the election of senators by popular vote?
300
This process, favored by many robber barons, had the industrialist buy out suppliers, thereby controlling costs.
What is Vertical Integration?
300
This organization was a left-wing industrial union known for its extremely progressive membership policies and victories in promoting free speech.
What is the IWW?
300
One of the most famous machine bosses in US history, and the architect of one of the most extravagant examples of corruption and graft.
Who is Boss Tweed?
400
This act allowed the government to send in federal troops to Southern states to combat KKK violence.
What is the Enforcement Act of 1870?
400
“Goldbugs” wanted to keep to a gold standard (as their name suggests). Those that favored using BOTH a gold and silver standard favored thisconcept.
What is bimetallism?
400
This innovation created a cheap and efficient manufacturing process to make steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
400
This man was a major proponent of industrial unions and became one of the most well known socialists in the United States.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
400
This word describes the giving of government jobs to people who helped a candidate get elected.
What is patronage?
500
This agreement allowed for Rutherford B. Hayes to take power.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500
History has referred to the major speech given by William Jennings Bryan at the Democratic Convention with this name, based on his imagery.
What is the Cross of Gold Speech?
500
This man was known for making sleeper cars and built a town for his workers that corresponded to his rules/supervision
Who is George M. Pullman?
500
Along with Ellis Island, this destination in San Francisco, was a major inception center for immigrants.
What is Angel Island?
500
This act, in effort to target government corruption, authorized a civil service commission to make appointments to federal jobs through a merit system based on the performance on an examination.