Show:
Reconstruction
Farming/Populism
Important Men and Women
Scandals and Reform
Wild Card
100
This was the catch-all name for discriminatory laws that separated the races in the American South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
Identify the forerunner to the Populist Party: a farmer's organization that tried to regulate the railroads and create cooperatives (Co-ops) to improve farmers' conditions.
What is the Grange?
100
These men (1) invented an efficient process for manufacturing steel and (2) vertically integrated the steel industry to create a steel monopoly based around Pittsburgh, PA.
Who are (1) Henry Bessemer and (2) Andrew Carnegie?
100
This railroad scandal involved overcharging the government for constructing the transcontinental railroad, and then bribing government officials to keep federal subsidies coming.
What is the Crédit Mobilier scandal?
100
(1) THESE immigrants came from northern and western Europe before c. 1890, while (2) THESE came from southern and eastern Europe after c. 1890.
Who are the "old" and "new" immigrants, respectively?
200
Identify the (1) presidential election (names and year) and the (2) bargain that followed it led to the ending of the Reconstruction Era.
What is (1) Hayes-Tilden Presidential Election of 1876; (2) The Compromise of 1877?
200
THIS person won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896 and was also endorsed by the Populists because he supported the free, unlimited coinage of silver.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
200
These men invented (1) the light bulb, electric generator, motion picture etc., (2) the telephone, and (3) refrigerated rail cars.
Who are (1) Thomas Edison, (2) Alexander Graham Bell, (3) Gustavus Swift (Swift and Armour Meatpacking Co.)
200
(1) This scandal involved a conspiracy among liquor manufacturers and corrupt politicians to defraud the government of liquor tax revenues. And (2) This political cartoonist helped publicize the scandal.
What is (1) the Whiskey Ring and (2) Thomas Nast?
200
This 1882 law (1) banned all Chinese immigration, and this (2) informal agreement limited Japanese immigration to the US in exchange for desegregating California schools.
What is (1) the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and (2) the Gentleman's Agreement?
300
THIS calamity led to whites fleeing Memphis and allowed southern blacks to come to Memphis and take advantage its infrastructure.
What is the Yellow Fever Epidemic of the 1870s?
300
Identify TWO reasons why farmers wanted to increase the money supply & cause inflation.
(1) To pay off debts/bank loans more easily, (2) to raise crop prices.
300
These MEN were involved in (1) monopolizing the oil industry through horizontal integration, (2) investing in the railroad and steamship industries, and (3) using his financial assets on Wall Street to invest in railroads, create the US Steel holding company, and be the "monopoly man"!
Who are (1) John D. Rockefeller, (2) Cornelius Vanderbilt, (3) J.P. Morgan?
300
This 1890 law outlawed certain corporations that interfered with healthy competition in the economy. An anti-monopoly law.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
300
This 1886 national labor strike culminated with a bomb going off at a crowded protest in Chicago, where policemen and strikers were killed and the Knights of Labor was blamed for the violence.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
400
Identify at least THREE methods by which southern blacks were disenfranchised.
What is (1) poll taxes, (2) literacy tests, (3) grandfather clauses, (4) lynching, (5) political violence from groups such as the KKK.
400
Identify THREE different FINANCIAL problems that farmers were experiencing in the late 1800s.
(1) Falling crop prices, (2) high railroad shipping rates, (3) high debts from bank loans/foreclosures.
400
These WOMEN (1) opened Hull House in Chicago to serve the immigrant poor with education, medical care, child care, etc., and (2) crusaded against lynching in the South by writing articles and lobbying for a federal anti-lynching law.
Who are (1) Jane Addams and (2) Ida B. Wells
400
This 1883 law was intended to replace the patronage/spoils system in the civil service with a merit-based system using competitive written exams to measure ability.
What is the Pendleton Act of 1883?
400
This 1894 strike began when George Pullman cut wages at his Pullman Palace Car factories. Railroad workers refused to unload any trains with Pullman Cars attached to them. The federal government broke the strike with a court injunction and the US Army.
What is the Pullman Strike of 1894?
500
(1) This ex-fugitive slave from Tennessee promoted the migration of southern blacks out of the South into the West to become farmers. (2) What were these Western black farmers called?
(1) Pap Singleton and (2) the Exodusters.
500
List at least THREE goals of the Populist Party.
(1) Free coinage of silver/bimetallism, (2) federal ownership of railroads, (3) graduated income tax, (4) 8-hour workday, (5) immigration restrictions
500
(1) This man believed the path to black social equality lay in first training southern blacks to be economically valuable to society, then equality would gradually follow. While (2) this man believed in using any reasonable means necessary to secure full civil rights without any delay or exceptions.
Who are (1) Booker T. Washington and (2) W.E.B. Du Bois?
500
This 1887 law was primarily intended to regulate railroads to ensure they charged fair shipping rates, but also allowed the government to regulate any business crossing state lines.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887?
500
(1) This social philosophy urged a ruthless "survival of the fittest" ethic, while (2) this social philosophy stressed charitable service to the poor with aid, education, training, etc. while still (3) this social philosophy struck a middle path, demanding that wealthy Americans create the conditions to help the poor help themselves.
What are (1) Social Darwinism, (2) the Social Gospel Movement, and (3) the Gospel of Wealth?