The West
The ______ Indians were the last to be forcibly removed from US territory.
Who were the Plains Indians
After the Civil War this was made legal under Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Segregation
The Big Business who controlled farmers because of farmers dependence on transporting their crops to distant markets.
What are Railroads
The king of the Oil Industry during the Industrial Revolution. Likely the richest man in history.
Who is John Rockefeller
The first major labor union in the United States.
Who are the Knights of Labor
Also called "Custer's Last Stand." It was the biggest American Indian victory in the west.
The Battle of Little Bighorn
A terrorist group that rose in the South to limit African-American's access to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction
What is the KKK
This caused farmers to go in debt and led to overproduction and falling prices.
What is New Technology/better machines
An industrialist who got his start in Railroads and then began a career of buying and selling other companies. Later loaned money to the federal government.
What is JP Morgan
a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer
What is a strike
The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Homestead Act paid for by the Federal government by is an example of this.
What are Government Subsidies
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.
What is sharecropping
An example of a local organizations who worked to improve conditions for farmers.
Who are the Grangers or Farmer's Alliance
An example of political corruption at the state and local level who exchanged favors for votes.
What are Political Machines
Group of people who began to organize and to fight for better conditions in places of work in industrial cities.
What is a union or labor group
Towns that popped up in the West when migrants went there to search for valuable resources like gold and silver.
What are Mining Towns, or boom towns
a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
What is a carpetbagger
This was a result of the Crime of 73 and made it more difficult for farmers to pay off their loans.
What is Deflation
An example of the justification of wealth created by a small group of people despite the majority of people living in poverty.
What is Social Darwinism or the Gospel of Wealth
An example of a conflict between labor and management that erupted after an 8 day strike and a bomb being thrown into the crowd.
What is the Haymarket Riot
a battle during Red Cloud's War on December 21, 1866, between a confederation of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians and soldiers of the United States Army, based at Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming.
What is the Fetterman Massacre, or Fetterman Fight
Laws created in the South to enforce Segregation after Reconstruction ended.
What are Jim Crow Laws
The political platform for the Populist Party during the election of 1892 that included the Free Coinage of Silver and government regulation of the Railroads.
What is the Omaha Platform
A belief that stated the benefits of industrialization should benefit all people equally and all business decisions should be controlled by the government.
What is Socialism
President of the American Federation of Labor Union and promoted the idea of collective bargaining.
Who is Samuel Gompers