Society and Culture
This was used to justify the vast differences between classes in society.
What is Social Darwinism?
This union allowed skilled and unskilled workers to join as well as women and African Americans.
What is the Knights of Labor?
This was passed to limit immigration of one group of people after they helped build the railroads.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This was reached after the Republicans promised to withdraw remaining forces from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This established that "separate but equal" was legally acceptable.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This writer used distinctly American vernacular that influenced future fiction writers.
Who is Mark Twain?
This led to the retirement of greenbacks and a return to the gold standard.
What is the Panic of 1873?
This distributed reservation lands to the head of each Native American family.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This group demanded free and unlimited coinage of silver, graduated income tax, and government ownership of telephone, telegraph, and railroad industries.
Who is the Populist Party?
This led to the trial of eight anarchists and the eventual execution of four of them.
What was the Haymarket Square Riot?
This person provided services to help poor immigrants settle in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
This event prompted President Hayes to use federal troops to restore order after workers were killed.
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
This established open competitive exams for civil service jobs and officially ended the Spoils System.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This is characterized by social, political, and economic reform that came as an American response to problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, and immigration.
What is progressivism?
This necessitated the need for Pinkerton security guards and the Pennsylvania State Militia to be brought in to take control of the situation.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This person wrote an article where he promoted the belief that the wealthy were just trustees of their money.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This group was led by Samuel Gompers and represented craft unions.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
This declared every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of interstate trade to be illegal.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This was given by William Jennings Bryan where he criticized the gold standard.
What is the Cross of Gold Speech?
This is considered the last skirmish of the Indian Wars.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
Ida Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil company shed more light on the dealings of this group of people.
Who are the Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
This person used such business practices as horizontal integration and trusts.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This prohibited rebates and required railroads to publish their rates as well as outlawing the practice of charging more for short hauls than long hauls.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This group supported a protective tariff and opposed civil service reform.
Who are the Stalwarts?
This is sensationalized news that helped to lead the United States into the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism?