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Settlement of the West and the New South
Farmers
Big Business
Labor Problems
Gilded Politics
100
After the Civil War this was made legal under Plessey v. Ferguson.
What is Segregation
100

This Big Business (industry) 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

Group of people who began to organize and to fight for better conditions in Industrial cities

Labor and factory workers

100

Passed in the 1860s, promoted government bonds and land grants to railroad companies to complete rail lines to the Pacific Ocean.  

What are the Pacific Railroad Acts

200

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

200
This caused farmers to go in debt and led to overproduction and falling prices.
What is New Technology
200

An industrialist who got his start in Railroads and then began a career of buying and selling other companies.

Who is JP Morgan

200

The first major labor union in the United States.

Who are the Knight of Labor

200

Passed in 1890, it was the first attempt by Congress to keep monopolistic practices in check, made it illegal for firms to make agreements with one another that limit competition and for a particular firm to engage in practices that are designed to establish a monopoly in a particular field.

What is the Sherman Anti Trust Act

300
The goal of the New South.
What is to Industrialize like the North
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
An example of a conflict between labor and management that took place at Andrew Carnegie's Steel Plant.
What is the Homestead Strike
300

This political party was able to harness growing discontent following the Panic of 1893 and gave a voice to a radical program for change that included increased democracy, a graduated income tax, regulation of the railroads, and currency reform. It's followers insisted that the amount of currency in circulation was insufficient.

What is the Populist Party
400
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.
What is Sharecropping
400

This was a result of the Crime of 73 and made it more difficult for farmers to pay off their loans.

What is Deflation

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
400

He ran for president in 1896 on the ticket of the Democratic Party. He broke with the more conservative elements in the party and endorsed the call for the “free and unlimited coinage” of silver. In his famous “Cross of Gold” speech, he promised not to let the American people be crucified “upon a cross of gold.”

Who is William Jennings Bryan?

500

These acts reallocated Native American indigenous land for the purpose of American settlement and industry. Name at least 2.

What are Homestead, Dawes, and Pacific Railroad Acts?

500

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

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

Congress finally passed this in 1883 to set up a merit-based federal civil service, a professional career service that allots government jobs on the basis of a competitive exam.

What is the Pendleton Act?