Settlement of the West / Native Resistance
A law that gave people the opportunity to claim 160 acres of free federal land in the west.
The Homestead Act
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that enforced segregation of African Americans in the South.
The heads of this industry exerted a lot of power over farmers because of farmers dependence on transporting their crops to distant markets.
Railroads
The belief that government should not regulate business, allowing trusts to grow unchecked.
Laissez-faire
This labor leader later ran for president as a Socialist after witnessing federal suppression of strikes.
Eugene V. Debs
Short-lived victory seen as lasting symbol of indigenous resistance
The Battle of Little Bighorn aka Custer's Last Stand
What is the TPE for the system of agricultural labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North?
Sharecropping/Tenant Farming
Easier to repay debts, could get higher prices for crops
Andrew Carnegie most famously used this business strategy to dominate steel production.
Vertical integration
This labor organization sought to unite skilled and unskilled workers and was damaged by the Haymarket Affair.
The Knights of Labor
This event symbolized the violent end of Native American resistance on the Plains due to fear of the Ghost Dance (killed 250 men, women, and children of the Sioux nation)
Wounded Knee Massacre
He was a self-educated former slave advocated for the education of African Americans for economic self-reliance.
Booker T. Washington
This organization formed to fight railroad monopolies and unfair rates.
Grangers/Farmer's Alliance
What is the TPE meaning the idea of "survival of the fittest" applied to society.
Social Darwinism
This was an exclusive labor union who only allowed skilled workers and fought for "Bread and Butter" goals like better wages and less hours.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
This law attempted to assimilate Native Americans through private land ownership.
The Dawes-Severalty Act
This Supreme Court case legalized segregation under “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
This currency policy was championed by William Jennings Bryan.
Bimetallism/free silver
This law created a merit-based civil service system (as opposed to patronage).
The Pendleton Act
This was an example of a conflict between labor and management that erupted after an 8 day strike and a bomb being thrown into the crowd.
The Haymarket Riot
Name two traits common of "New Immigrants".
Eastern European and Chinese, not Protestant, darker skinned, different languages.
This is the TPE for W.E.B. DuBois' idea arguing that a small, educated group of African Americans should lead the fight for racial equality.
The Talented Tenth
This is the name for the Populist Party's political platform during the election of 1892, which included the Free Coinage of Silver and government regulation of the Railroads.
The Omaha Platform
This important law was enacted in 1890 to limit monopolies.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This was a specific New York political machine that gave out favors/aid to immigrants in exchange for votes.
Tammany Hall