Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
After the end of Reconstruction, many southern states passed __________ that legalized segregation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This practice gave railroad companies alternate square mile plots of land along the proposed route of the railroad.
What is checkerboarding?
One of the ethnic groups that dominated the new immigration of the 1880's and 90's was:
Who were the Italians, Jews, Croats, Slovaks, Greeks, or Poles?
This animal was crucial to lives of many plains Native Americans.
What is the bison?
This native queen fought against the annexation of Hawaii.
Who is Queen Lili'uokalani?
In the late 1800s, soft money advocates were sometimes called this.
What are "silverites?"
This act prohibited rebates and pools, forbade unfair discrimination against shippers, and outlawed charging more for a long haul than a short haul.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst perfected this kind of sensationalistic news.
What is yellow journalism?
Name one farmer-interest organization in the late 1800's.
What is the Grange, the Greenback Labor Party, the Farmer's Alliance, or the People's Party?
The explosion of the ship the Maine set off this war.
What is the Spanish- American War?
The Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibited this people group from entering the United States.
Who are the Chinese?
This company, owned by John D. Rockefeller, was one of the first examples of horizontal integration on a large scale.
What is Standard Oil?
Protestant ministers Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch started this movement in the late 1800's.
What is the social gospel?
This presidential candidate gave the moving "Cross of Gold" speech.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
These Supreme Court Cases followed U.S. annexation of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, and ruled that people under the U.S. flag do not necessarily have the rights of U.S. citizens.
What are the Insular Cases?
The Pendleton Civil Service Act was signed by this president.
Who is Chester Arthur?
An incident known as Haymarket Square tarnished the reputation of what labor union?
What are the Knights of Labor?
This state was the first to grant unrestricted suffrage to women in 1869.
What is Wyoming?
This president sent in the National Guard to crush the Pullman railroad strike.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
This U.S. president earned the Nobel Peace Prize after mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
The Populists, or People's Party, polled 5% of the electoral vote and 8.5% of the popular vote in 1892 with this candidate.
Who is General Weaver?
The theory of social darwinism was developed by this philosopher.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
These two acts granted states the authority to sell public lands to create land grant colleges.
What are the Morrill Act and the Hatch Act?
The reservation system was started through treaties at these two forts in 1851 and 1853.
What are Forts Laramie and Atkinson?
"The supreme geopolitical fact of the modern era is that the Americans speak English" was said by this European politician.
Who is Otto von Bismark?