Westward Expansion
New South & Jim Crow
Big Business & Industry
Labor & Immigration
Miscellaneous
100
This railroad connected the East and West coasts in 1869.
Transcontinental Railroad
100
Term used to describe post–Civil War Southern industrialization.
New South
100
Process that made steel cheaper and stronger.
Bessemer Process
100
First
major national labor union open to skilled and unskilled workers.
Knights of Labor
100
This city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and later renamed Istanbul.
Constantinople
200
This railroad connected the East and West coasts in 1869.
Pacific Railway Acts
200
Journalist who promoted the New South idea.
Henry Grady
200
Business strategy controlling every stage of production.
Vertical Integration
200
Union focused on skilled laborers.
American Federation of Labor
200
This scientist proposed the theory of natural selection in On the Origin of Species.
Charles Darwin
300
This farming tool increased crop efficiency.
Mechanical Reaper (Steel Plow)
300
Farming system that trapped farmers in debt.
Sharecropping
300
Oil tycoon who used horizontal integration
John D. Rockefeller
300
Violent labor protest linked to a bombing.
Haymarket Affair
300
What gas makes up the largest percentage of Earth’s atmosphere?
Nitrogen
400
Farmers formed this group to fight against railroad tyranny
The Grange
400
Supreme Court case that legalized segregation.
Plessy v. Ferguson
400
Term for powerful, wealthy industrialists.
Robber Barons
400
This major labor conflict disrupted railroads after a wage cut in 1894.
Pullman Strike
400
Which grade in Leighton has the most students?
G10 (64 students)
500
Farmers formed this group to fight railroad abuses.
EX: created national markets / lowered transportation costs / boosted industrial growth
500
Compare Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois in one sentence.
EX: Washington favored gradual change; Du Bois demanded immediate equality
or Washington favored compliance to build equality; Du Bois demanded more radical action in comparison
500
Explain one reason monopolies worried Americans.
EX: reduced competition / controlled prices / political influence
500
Explain one reason immigrants formed ethnic enclaves.
EX: safety, cultural support, jobs, language familiarity
500
How many Leighton teachers (and principal) are from the US?
12