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Settlement of the West
The New South
Farmers
Big Business
Labor Problems
100
The last group of Native Americans that had to be forcibly removed from US territory.
Who are the Plains Indians
100

Laws enforcing segregation.

What are Jim Crow laws

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 Knights of Labor

200

Fear of the Ghost Dance resulted in an early morning killing of over 250 men, women, and children of the Sioux nation

What is Wounded Knee Massacre

200

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

What is the Sharecropping

200

This caused farmers to go in debt and led to overproduction and falling prices.

What is New Technology/mechanization

200
An industrialist who got his start in Railroads and then began a career of buying and selling other companies.
What is JP Morgan
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

A law that gave citizens and intended citizens the opportunity to claim 160 acres of free federal land

What is the Homestead Act

300

The goal of the New South.

What is 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 exclusive labor union who only allowed skilled workers and fought for "Bread and Butter" goals like better wages and less hours. 

What is American Federation of Labor (AFL)

400
An example of a new economic activity in the west which included the search for valuable resources like gold and silver.
What are Mining Towns
400

Self-educated former slave advocated for the education of African Americans.

Who is Booker T. Washington

400

Farmers favored this because it put more money in circulation which made it easier for farmers to pay off their debts.

What is inflation

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

What doctrine did Plessy v. Ferguson uphold?

What is the constitutionality of “separate, but equal" facilities based on race.

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
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