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Settlement of the West
The New South
Farmers
Big Business
Labor Problems
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New form of transportation that connected both sides of the US.

The Transcontinental railroad

100
After the Civil War this was made legal under Plessey v. Ferguson.
What is Segregation
100
The Big Business who controlled farmers because of farmers dependence on transporting their crops to distant markets.
What are Railroads
100
The king of the Oil Industry during the Industrial Revolution.
Who is John Rockefeller
100
The first major labor union in the United States.
Who are the Knight of Labor
200

A battle which resulted from US soldiers retaliating against Native Tribes performing the Ghost Dance

Wounded Knee

200

A group that used violence in the South to limit African-American's access to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment.

What is the KKK

200

Newer technology helped improve farming, however helped lead to overproduction and lower prices. Some of the newer technology of this era was...

Steel plow, the mechanical reaper, barbed wire

200
When business grew, departmentalization took place in order to improve efficiency. This was called the 

management revolution

200
An example of a conflict between labor and management that took place at Andrew Carnegie's Steel Plant.
What is the Homestead Strike
300
John Wesley Powell predicted that 160 acre homesteads wouldn't work. Instead he promoted government funded _____________

irrigation projects

300

The system of labor that replaced slavery and dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.

What is Sharecropping

300
An example of a local organizations who worked to improve conditions for farmers.
Who are the Grangers or Farmer's Alliance
300
An example of political corruption at the state and local level who exchanged favors for votes.
What are Political Machines
300
Group of people who began to organize and to fight for better conditions in Industrial cities.
Who is Labor or Factory Workers
400

The Homestead Act allowed gave citizens ________ acres of land if they could improve the land for ______ years

160, 5
400

The goal of the New South.

To have a mixed economy of agriculture, but focus on industrializing like the North

400

The Crime of '73 refers to

Not allowing silver to be used in circulation

400
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
400
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
500
an example of a new economic activity in the west that involved providing meat for slaughter houses for people to eat.
What are Cattle Ranches
500
Laws created in the South to enforce Segregation after Reconstruction ended.
What are Jim Crow Laws
500
The political platform for the Populist Party during the election of 1892 that included the Free Coinage of Siver and government regulation of the Railroads.
What is the Omaha Platform
500

The business practiced first developed by ________ called for ownership of the production process from the bottom to the top. Who developed this, and what was the process called.

Gustavus Swift, Vertical Integration

500
President of the American Federation of Labor Union and promoted the idea of collective bargaining.
Who is Samuel Gompers