Settlement of the West
The last group of Native Americans that had to be forcibly removed from US territory, they were primarily nomadic hunters.
Who are the Plains Indians?
An example of a terrorist organization in the South that attempted to limit African-American's access to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment.
What is the KKK?
The Big Business that controlled farmers because of farmers dependence on transporting their crops to distant markets.
What are Railroads
The first major labor union in the United States.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
Dance performed by Native Americans they believed would restore their nomadic lifestyle.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Laws created in the South to enforce Segregation after Reconstruction ended.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
He formed the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry in 1867.
Who is Oliver Hudsen Kelley?
An industrialist who got his start in Railroads and then began a career of buying and selling other companies.
Who is JP Morgan?
An example of a conflict between labor and management that took place at Andrew Carnegie's Steel Plant.
What is the Homestead Strike?
Forcing Native Americans to abandon their names, cut their hair, and attend schools set up by the US government are all examples of this.
What is assimilation?
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.
What is Sharecropping?
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 Industrial cities.
Who is Labor or Factory Workers?
6,000 southern African Americans that arrived in 1879, 20,000 would follow in 1880.
Who were the exodusters?
After the Civil War this was made legal under Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Segregation
Very few sources of credit existed in the west, leaving farmers forced to take whatever terms they could get, sometimes accepting interest rates as high as this.
What is 25%?
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?
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 goal of the New South, trying to keep up with their Northern neighbors.
What is to Industrialize?
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?