Big Business
An industrialist (and philanthropist) of the steel industry during the late 1800s
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Author of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, a satirical view of greed and corruption in the post-Civil War.
Who is Mark Twain?
The deadly strike at the Carnegie Steel plant near Pittsburgh that resulted in many deaths, including some Pinkerton men
What is the Homestead Strike?
The influential speech given in 1893 that declared the "frontier closed" and justified foreign expansion
What is the Turner Thesis (Frederick Jackson Turner's Thesis)?
Areas from (Europe) where immigration shifted in the late 1800s
What is southern and Eastern Europe? (Italy, Russia)
The head of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City who took graft in exchange for votes.
Who is Boss Tweed (or William Tweed)
A multi-story, cramped housing unit built in large cities to house many families.
What is a tenement?
The first, organized, skilled trade union that fought for better economic growth and pay for workers
What is the American Federation of Labor?
The association started by farmers in the Midwest to promote agriculture and fair practices in the economy and politics
The is The Grange (or Granger)
The social term of absorbing one cultural group into another, usually through conformity to language, foods, and customs.
What is assimilation?
An example of economic consolidation that allowed business owners to create a monopoly and destroy their competition.
Horizontal or vertical integration
Photojournalist Jacob Riis' collection which documented the slums of NYC and exposed squalid living conditions
What is How the Other Half Lives?
The founder and head of the AFL
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Two of the three major conflicts between Native Americans and the U.S. Government during the settlement of the west
What are
Wounded Knee
Little Big Horn
Sandcreek Massacre
Activist and social reformer, this woman set up settlement houses for new immigrants; most famously, the Hull House in Chicago
Who is Jane Addams?
A political & economic philosophy that supported big business and promoted little government interference.
Laissez-faire
Author of "dime" novels aimed at young people to encourage hard work and ingenuity to rise up and achieve the American Dream.
Horatio Alger
The political party that was established to help workers and farmers and pushed for the "free silver" movement and government ownership of the railroads
What is the Populist (or People's) Party?
Large groups of emancipated southerners who left after Reconstruction and settled in areas such as Kansas to make a new life.
Who are the Exodusters?
The federal law that outlawed immigrants from Asia (year must also be specifically added)
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
A government regulation that prohibited monopolies from gaining too much power and tried to restore fair competition in the market.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The spoils system of hiring and promoting government workers without merit was revised after the assassination of President Garfield with this act in 1883.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
A protest by unemployed workers after the Panic of 1893 to demand government assistance from lawmakers in Washington D.C.
What is Jacob Coxey's March on Washington?
After the transcontinental railroad was developed, this town's economy (and population) boomed because of the discovery of essential minerals such as silver.
What is Tombstone?
The California immigration station that was the in-processing center for millions