We're Just Farmers
Industrial Capitalism
You Are On Stolen Land
We are all immigrants
Labor Day Came From Chicago
100
Most black farmers in the South were
What are the sharecroppers?
100
When a company excercises control over an entire industry so that there are no competitors
What is a monopoly?
100
After they signed a treaty with the federal government, most native tribes were forced to live on these
What are reservations?
100
Unlike the previous periods, the "New Immigrants" of the late 19th century came from
What is Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central Europe?
100
Members of this union stopped trains nationwide on behalf of striking Pullman Palace Car workers
What is the American Railway Union?
200
1862 Law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years for $10
What is the Homestead Act?
200
This theory states that businesses should be left to themselves, resulting in optimal market production and prices.
What is laissez-faire?
200
The near-extinction of this animal could be seen as an act of genocide against native nations of the Plains
What is the buffalo (bison)?
200
The first-ever U.S. law that restricted immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
A horrible system never covered in your textbook, but made possible by a loophole in the 13th Amendment allowing slavery "except as punishment for a crime"
What is convict leasing?
300
By the late 19th century, farmers were no longer practicing subsistence farming, they were instead doing
What is commercial farming?
300
Calling Period 6 the "Gilded Age" is a reference to
What is the decadent golden wealth that is just a thin cover over the massive suffering of workers
300
This conflict was one of the last armed battles of the Indian Wars
What is the Massacre of Wounded Knee?
300
Investigative journalists who exposed awful working conditions, living conditions, and corruption
Who are Muckrakers?
300
Employers often used this private army to break strikes, most violently at the Homestead steel mill in Pennsylvania
Who are the Pinkertons?
400
William Jennings Bryan ran for President in 1896 representing these TWO political parties
Who are the Democrats & Populists?
400
A business that controls all aspects of production, from the raw materials to the factory production to the transportation
What is vertical integration?
400
The goal of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to
What is divide up reservation land into individual plots?
400
Run by local bosses, gave city residents assistance and jobs in return for their votes
What are political machines?
400
This group demanded a graduated income tax, an 8-hour work day, and the government ownership of railroads and phone lines
Who is the Populist Party?
500
The Populists wanted the US to get off the gold standard and instead operate on this principle
What is the unlimited coinage of silver?
500
The belief that the most successful deserve their wealth because they are the fittest in society
What is social darwinism?
500
By cutting students' hair, forcing them to dress in white clothing, and preventing them from speaking their native language, boarding schools promoted this cultural policy
What is assimilation?
500
These community centers provided classes, social events, and financial help to immigrant communities
What are settlement houses?
500
This outbreak of violence at a rally supporting an 8-hour day for workers at the McCormick Reaper Plant led to the first Labor Day (Workers' Day) on May 1
What is the Haymarket Bombing?