Name one of the two robber barons/captains of industry we studied at length.
Who is Rockefeller?
Who is Carnegie?
The founder of settlement houses to help immigrants adjust to life in America. Settlement houses were mainly in cities.
The US government policy toward Native Americans; ______ and move onto individual plots of land, give up culture
What is assimilation?
The cramped urban housing that was most accessible to immigrants; Jacob Riis take photos of these conditions to show the wealth gap
What are tenements?
A group that practices collective bargaining to gain better wages and working conditions
What is a labor union?
The area the group of immigrants arriving from 1880 to 1930 were largely from
What is Southeastern Europe?
What is Asia?
Groups that use power and money to gain influence in elections; particularly appealing to immigrants and urban poor
What is a political machine?
The form of labor most common to recently freed African Americans in the South
What is sharecropping?
This French word means letting business run without any government interference
What is laissez-faire?
The belief that "survival of the fittest" applied to humans; the wealthy used this to justify their enormous wealth
What is social darwinism?
The name for the group of farmers who formed a political party to protest the growth of wealthy businessmen and wanted increased power in government
What is the People's/Populist Party?
The body of Congress most closely associated with corruption due to being appointed, not elected
What is the Senate?
Name one of the prominent labor strikes that we studied in Period 6.
What is....
Homestead Steel Strike
Haymarket Square Riot
The idea that the South should industrialize after the Civil War to rebuild
What is the New South?
The political party that held onto the presidency for decades after the Civil War
What is the Republican Party
The SCOTUS case that decided that segregation was legal as long as it followed the idea of "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The key issue that farmers were campaigning for during the election of 1896; William Jenning Bryan gave his famous speech in favor of this policy
(free coinage of silver or bimetallism)
A movement of religious leaders to improve life for the poor living in cities
What is the Social Gospel?
The legislation passed to stop the immigration of Asians to the United States in 1882
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This period is known as the ______ because businesses were growing at a rapid rate and made the country look great, but America had many problems below the surface
What is the Gilded Age