People
A US financier, investment banker, and industrial organizer who dominated wall street during the Gilded Age.
J.P. Morgan
By the time more industrial work was booming, what type of working-class (Specific jobs) fell into deeper and deeper poverty?
Those working in farming and agriculture
Emergency paper currency issued during the civil war.
Greenbacks
The belief that Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection can be applied to the marketplace.
Social Darwinism
The shift of many Americans from rural to urbanized cities/ areas in the country.
Urbanization
The owner of Standard Oil who created the first monopoly in America and widely considered one of the wealthiest men in American History.
John D. Rockefeller
Begun to boom to become one of the largest industries in America within the 1860s.
The Railroad Industry
State and local laws which enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Jim Crow Laws
Concerns about deforestation caused the _____ movement; where people created art of Yellowstone and caused Congress to preserve certain areas.
Conservation
Following the end of the Reconstruction in 1877, which region took away the support and protection of freedmen in the south?
The North
With Lucia Mott, organized the first convention on women's rights held in Seneca Falls, New York 1848. Co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony and helped issue the Declaration of Sentiments which declared all men and women to be equal demanding a women's right to vote.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The transition to a new manufacturing process which included the Pacific Railroad Act, the Laissez-Faire, National Labor Union, and the Haymarket bombing.
Industrial Revolution
This political party dominated the Presidency from 1868-1900 due to a vast number of African Americans joining this party.
Republican
Reduced work hours and times and improved transportation, as well as decreasing Puritan and Victorian views, led to a gradual increase in ___.
Amusements; shows, sports, movies, and other leisure technology.
What was the primary cause of many Mexicans immigrating to America, specifically the Southwest?
Were drawn to the explosion in economic growth in the region.
Andrew Carnegie
The second large attempt to create a national labor union; started as a secret society to avoid attention and detection from employers.
Knights of Liberty
This government act attempted to eliminate the monopolies and trusts big businesses were forming, however, it was rarely enforced.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What people preached when trying to convince people to apply Christian principles to social issues.
Social Gospel
Citizen pressure caused Congress to pass a law prohibiting/ restricting Chinese laborers from entering the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act
One of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people and an investigate, journalist, and educator of the early Civil Rights movement. (1892-1931)
Ida B. Wells
Which two companies were authorized by Congress to split the task of building the first transcontinental railroad?
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
A Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws such as the Jim Crow laws were not a violation of the US Constitution.
Plessy v Ferguson
The Supreme Court case where the Court upheld a Lousiana Law allowing "separate but equal accommodations" for white and black passengers on railroads.
Plessy v. Ferguson
By 1865 many American Indians had been forced out of previous lands/ American occupied areas. By this time, about 2/3 of American Indians lived in __.
The Great Plains