The South
This was the type of labor that kept many former slaves and poor whites in perpetual debt.
What was sharecropping?
Two examples of economic consolidation that allowed business owners to create a monopoly and destroy their competition.
What are vertical and horizontal integration?
This labor organization succeeded by creating an association of skilled labor groups.
What was the American Federation of Labor?
He was the leader of New York's Tammany Hall.
He coined the name "Gilded Age."
Who was Mark Twain?
This was the terrorist organization that kept African Americans, Catholics, and other non-WASPs marginalized in society.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
He was the king of the steel industry.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This catastrophic 1886 event led to many Americans turning against the labor movement for being too radical.
What was the Haymarket Disaster?
This was the event that led to the ending of Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This was an example of a network of local organizations that worked to improve business, politics, and social conditions for farmers.
Who are the Grange or Farmer's Alliance?
This was the name given to the region suggesting that it would turn to more modern, industrialized means of economic production.
What was the New South?
This was the worst economic crisis since the Civil War.
What was the Depression of 1873?
This was an early national labor union, founded in 1869, that invited skilled and unskilled labor.
What was the Knights of Labor?
These three specific tactics were used to prevent African Americans from voting.
What were: 1) literacy tests; 2) poll taxes; and 3) the Grandfather Clause?
What was the "Cross of Gold" speech?
These laws kept many African Americans socially segregated and disenfranchised politically across the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This was an economic depression in the United States that deeply affected every sector of the economy, and produced political upheaval that led to a political realignment and the election of William McKinley.
What was the Panic of 1893?
This was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894.
What was the Pullman Strike?
This was a left-wing agrarian populist late-19th-century political party in the United States.
Populist or People's Party
Meant to curb the influx of Chinese immigrants to the United States, particularly California, this law suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization.
What was the The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This was a law in the United States that restored the nation to the gold standard through the redemption of previously-unbacked United States Notes and reversed inflationary government policies promoted directly after the American Civil War.
What was the Resumption Act of 1875?
This was a violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in 1892.
What was the Homestead Steel Strike?
This political party supported business and industry with a protective tariff and hard money policies.
What was the Republican Party?
These were a group of five landmark cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments did not empower Congress to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals.
What were the Civil Rights Cases of 1883?