Post Civil War America
THIS is the type of farming most freed slaves participated in after the Civil War.
What is Sharecropping (farming) OR Tenant (Farming)?
THIS is the term for the prominent American ideal that the United States was destined by God to spread its control, democracy, and capitalism across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
THIS almost went extinct based on the overhunting by White settlers and the limited usage of items beyond the fur. At their peek there were 32 million and then 9 million were killed between 1872 and 1875. By 1900 only a few thousand survived.
What are buffalo OR bison?
THIS is the belief that the wealthy are "chosen by God" to be successful and were therefore responsible to look out for the well being of those less fortunate AND THIS is the originator of the philosophy.
What is Gospel of Wealth AND Who is Andrew Carnegie?
THIS is an example of how newly freed slaves and Black Americans as a whole were disenfranchised (taking away voting rights).
What are Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, Grandfather Clause, or the KKK? (Need 1)
THIS is the #1 focus to provide unity from East to West, similar to early attempts with the Erie Canal, steamboats, etc that led to unity between the North and South.
Prior to its completion, it took almost 6 months to travel from New York to California. After completion, it cut travel time between the two coasts to just one week.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
THIS is yielded deposits of gold and silver worth more than $500 million, the richest single strike in American history
What is Comstock Lode (in Nevada)?
THIS signaled the end of the Indian Wars on the Great Plains. 300 Indians and 25 Whites lay dead after violence erupted.
What is Wounded Knee?
THIS person wrote a book titled "How the Other Half Lives" exposing the conditions of immigrants in New York City tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
THIS is the act that required the United States federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies, and organizations suspected of violating the Act limiting cartels and monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
THIS is the difference in the average amount of time to enter through Ellis Island vs. Angel Island.
What is 1 day to 1 week through Ellis Island vs. 1 week to 6 months through Angel Island? (As long as you are in the range for both)
Cowboys drove herds of 2,000 to 2,500 steers on long drives to “cow towns” in Kansas along THIS trail from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas (4 month journey)
What is the Chisholm Trail?
THIS treaty in 1851 between U.S. government and Plain tribes established that tribes guaranteed safe passage for settlers on the Oregon Trail and allowed the construction of roads and forts. In exchange the tribes received defined lands that would be theirs forever. But “forever” lasted less than 4 decades.
What is the Fort Laramie Treaty?
THIS is the philosophy that centered around the claim that any man could achieve wealth through hard work. Horatio Alger wrote fictional tales of hard-working young men going from “rags to riches” based solely on their ambition and determination.
What is the "Gospel of Success?"
THIS is the term for what were used power to rig elections, became wealthy from kickbacks - illegal payments, and controlled police force to stay out of trouble.
What are Political Machines?
THIS is where MOST immigrants entering through Ellis Island came from following the Civil War. (NEED BOTH AREAS) - This was known as "new immigration" vs. "old immigration".
What is Southern and Eastern Europe (NEED BOTH)?
THIS perception of the land in the West of cowboys roaming the unexplored frontier; oftentimes ignored the complexities of the Native American life.
What is "romantacizing the West"?
THIS is the book written by Helen Hunt Jackson that condemned the government's Indian policy and its record of broken treaties. THIS book led to the creation of the reservation system.
When Jackson sent a copy of the book to every member of Congress with the following admonition printed in red on the cover “Look upon your hands: they are stained with the blood of your relations.” To her disappointment, the book had little impact.
What is the book, A Century of Dishonor?
Rockefeller used THIS type of integration to take over 22 of his 26 competitors. Controlling THIS percent of the oil refining in America.
What is Horizontal Integration? AND What is 95%?
THIS act attempted to end Patronage/Spoils System by creating the Civil Service Commission which required appointed government officials to pass the Civil Service Exam to base jobs on merit instead of friendship. This followed Garfield's assassination.
What is the Pendleton Act?
THIS Supreme Court Case set the precedent that "Separate but Equal" was the law of the land (United States)
Jim Crow Laws will follow and legal segregation of races will last legally until the 1950s and 60s
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
THIS is the time period that the Chinese Exclusion Act lasted ... started on THIS date & originally it was meant to be temporary and then extended and the permanent until THIS date.
What is from 1892 (1893) - 1942 (1943)? OR What is 50 years?
THIS boarding school in Pennsylvania was established after it was concluded that Indians must adapt to white culture if peace was ever to happen. (Adopt Christianity, White Education). They came from the farthest corners of the United States and its territories: Thousands of American Indian children, some barely teens, boarded trains, stagecoaches, and ships bound for the boarding school after the 19th century Indian Wars.
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
THIS is the bloody riot in Chicago in 1886 which was intended to protest police cruelty against strikers, but got out of hand when one member of the THIS union threw a bomb and killed a police officer.
In the resultant chaos, nine people were killed and close to sixty injured. As a result the union lost popularity.
What is the Haymarket Riot? AND What is the Knights of Labor?
THIS person gained control of most of the railroad industry. He offered rebates to customers and refused service for people traveling on competing railroad lines. He lowered the rates on his railroad in order to gain more business. He drove competing railroad companies out of business and bought up their railroad lines.
Who is Vanderbilt?