The Sierra Club was created by this person in order to promote the preservation of nature
John Muir
This court case established the principle of "separate but equal" which legalized jim crow segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
This is the name for when a company buys out all of its competitors, thus eliminating the competition
(Horizontal Integration, Standard Oil)
Job opportunities in the United States that attract immigrants from other countries would be called a __________ factor for immigration
pull factor
The temperance activist who used a hatchet to protest against alcohol
Carrie Nation
This law intended to break up the reservation system to make Native Americans into landowners and farmers
Dawes Act (1887)
This inventor and scientist developed a new way to efficiently create stronger steel
Henry Bessemer
This famous economist wrote that the economy is most efficient when the government is "hands off" or doesn't interfere with the economy
Adam Smith
crowded, run down apartments where immigrants lived in cities were called
tenements
The religious idea that helping society, including helping the poor, would lead to individual salvation
Social Gospel
This law gave people 160 acres of free land as long as they agreed to farm and develop the plot for 5 years
Homestead Act of 1863
This black leader famously and controversially delivered the "Atlanta Compromise" speech
Booker T. Washington
The Knights of Labor became associated with anarchists and violence due to this tragic event
Haymarket Bombing/Riot (1886, Chicago)
The name of the anti-Catholic nativist group who published this political cartoon
American Protective Association
This third political party believed in expanding democracy, increasing the money supply, and taxing the rich more
Populist Party/People's Party
This was the name of the huge deposit of silver that was discovered in the mountains of Nevada
Comstock Lode
Name two examples of voter discrimination laws that were passed to stop African-Americans from voting
(poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause)
This scandal involved companies bribing government officials during the construction of the railroads
Credit Mobilier
As cities grew, wealthier and middle class people moved out of cities to these surrounding residential communities
suburbs
This is the name for a tax placed on foreign goods to protect domestic manufacturing
tariffs
This invention led to the decline of cattle drives and the end of cowboys in the United States
barbed wire
This was the name for poor tenant farmers who rented land and had to give part of their harvest to the plantation owner
sharecroppers
Which labor strike involved mail cars being attached to railroad cars?
Pullman Strike (1894)
Federal Law that provided land grants to states to establish colleges and universities
Morrill Act (1862, 1890)
This law, passed after President Garfield's assassination, made taking an exam a part of being selected for classified government jobs