Taming the West
Captains or Robber Barons?
The Working-Class Revolt
A Nation Divided
Rebuilding the Republic
100
This 1862 legislative act granted 160 acres of public land to any head of household who settled and cultivated a Western plot for five consecutive years.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
This industrial advancement revolutionized manufacturing by allowing factories to run a graveyard shift and continue production through the night.
What is the incandescent lightbulb?
100
During the Second Industrial Revolution, this harsh economic reality forced labor unions to organize to fight for higher pay and shorter days.
What are low wages or long workdays/unsafe working conditions?
100
Issued as a military measure during the war, this executive action freed slaves living strictly within territories controlled by the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This congressional group clashed fiercely with President Andrew Johnson because they wanted to use federal power to fundamentally reshape Southern society.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
200
Look at this sequence of Western milestones:
1862-Homestead Act → [ ? ] → 1887-Dawes Act
This 1869 infrastructure milestone completes the timeline by linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
Adopted heavily by Andrew Carnegie, this British industrial innovation allowed for the cheap mass production of high-quality raw steel.
What is Bessemer Process?
200
Unlike unions that welcomed all workers, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) under Samuel Gompers prioritized organizing this specific class of skilled individuals.
What are skilled laborers?
200
This constitutional amendment permanently and legally abolished the institution of slavery across the entire United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
This specific Reconstruction amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision by guaranteeing birthright citizenship and "equal protection under the law" to all Americans.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
Designed to dismantle communal tribal ownership, this 1887 law distributed reservation lands into individual private plots to force Native American assimilation.
DOUBLE POINTS
What is the Dawes Act?
300
This specific architectural innovation became possible in late-19th-century cities due to the rapid abundance of cheap, mass-produced steel girders.
What are skyscrapers?
300
These two labor unions were crucial to the movement and progression of worker rights, safe condition, standard work hours, and worker compensation.
What is the knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor?
300
Read the following 1865 excerpt from Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner regarding the post-war South:
"If the work of Reconstruction is to be a success, we must create a new order of things... The old plantation masters must learn that the former slave is now a citizen, and the federal government must act as a guardian to protect this new liberty."
Sumners quote has a goal in mind as it relates to the government and reconstruction, what is it.
What is he wanted the federal government to actively protect and enforce the civil rights of freedmen?
300
In this political cartoon from Thomas Nast in 1872, A traveler is depicted carrying a giant luggage sack to exploit the broken Southern economy. This derogatory term describes these Northern civilians.
What are carpetbaggers?
400
To enforce cultural assimilation, the federal government sent Native American children away from their families to these specialized institutions.
What are Indian Boarding Schools?
400
What type of integration is this called based on the political cartoon from Udo Keppler (1904) "The Next Generation Monster"
What is horizontal integration?
400
This invention and innovation led to the ssuccess of a longstanding corporation in the United States.
What is Henry Ford's Assembly Line?
400
General Winfield Scott designed this strategic plan to suffocate the Southern economy using a naval blockade and controlling the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
400
This post-war exploitative financial loop trapped newly freed African Americans in a legal cycle of debt peonage to white landowners.
What is sharecropping?
500
What event is this cartoon emphasizing during the movement of immigration?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
This late-19th-century business philosophy used the concept of "survival of the fittest" to justify massive wealth gaps, low worker wages, and poor safety conditions.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
Look at a map of historical labor strikes from 1877 to 1894.
Because of heavy urbanization and factory density, the highest concentration of major industrial strikes occurred in this geographical region of the country.
DOUBLE POINTS
What is the Northeast?
500
This 1896 supreme court case decision allowed state and local governments to mandate racial segregation, providing that the segregated facilities were "separate but equal".
What is the Plessy v. Ferguson decision?
500
In Thomas Nast's 1874 cartoon "Worse Than Slavery," white supremacist groups shake hands over a terrified Black family. The removal of federal troops in 1877 allowed Southern legislatures to legally enforce this oppressive era of segregation.
DOUBLE POINTS
What are Jim Crow Laws (Black Codes)