Politics
The Labor Movement
The Law
Aura Farming
Innovators & Inventions
The Wizard of Oz Allegory
Socio-Economics
100
Midwestern farmers started their own political party in 1892 known as this
What is the Populist (People's) Party?
100
The first significant labor union that formed in United States back in 1869
What is the Knights of Labor?
100
Laws that are "on the books" but not enforced are known as this concept
What are "dead letters"?
100
Buried near Geary, Oklahoma, this trailblazer's path to the railroads in Kansas saw 1.5 million of head of cattle pass through after grazing on the open range prairie grasses of Texas
Who is (Jesse) Chisholm?
100
Alexander Graham Bell's invention that spawned AT&T
What is the telephone?
100
The Scarecrow & Dorothy
Who are American farmers?
100
This essentially became the currency in the barter economy of the South after the Civil War
What is cotton?
200
This individual used kickbacks to fund a bougie lifestyle while dominating New York City politics in the 1860s and 1870s
Who is (William) "Boss" Tweed?
200
The national labor strike beginning on May 1, 1886 was related to achieving this PRIMARY goal
What is a standardized (8-hour day/40-hour week) work schedule?
200
State laws enacted in the South to keep freed slaves in a second class status were known as this
What are black codes?
200
Wrote an article entitled The Gospel of Wealth and "walked the walk" by setting up a charity foundation and donating 90% of his wealth
Who is (Andrew) Carnegie?
200
This individual is often considered the first Robber Baron, specializing in transportation, whose name adorns an SEC university known for its academics and now a quality football program thanks to NIL money
Who is (Cornelius) Vanderbilt?
200
The Tin Man
Who are factory workers or labor union members?
200
The Election of 1896 hinged on the sole political issue about how to back the paper money supply. Farmers supported using gold and silver, known by this term
What is bi-metallism?
300
This individual campaigned in every U.S. state during the Election of 1896 giving a famous oration that came to be known as "The Cross of Gold" speech
Who is (William Jennings) Bryan?
300
The longest lasting labor union in United States history, coming into existence back in 1881
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO)?
300
One way states created loopholes around the 15th Amendment
What is poll taxes (or literacy tests, or grandfather clauses)?
300
This individual cornered the market on the oil industry and his name adorns a plaza in New York City to this day
Who is (John D.) Rockefeller?
300
This talented inventor holds the most patents in U.S. history with 1,093, with his most famous related to electrification and the phonograph (music/record player)
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
The Yellow Brick Road
What is the Gold Standard?
300
Wrote The Communist Manifesto and John Green says "his beard has cast a shadow over much of the 20th Century"
Who is Karl Marx?
400
This deal was worked out between the Democrats and Republicans in the Election of 1876, giving Rutherford Hayes the presidency in return for promising to withdraw troops ending Military Reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877?
400
This was the site of an explosion that killed police in Chicago who had been called in to break up labor union workers who had assembled to discuss and protest the use of force against strikers at the McCormick factory
What is Haymarket Square?
400
This Supreme Court Landmark decision upheld or legalized segregation and gave birth to Jim Crow laws
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
400
This financier's banking and investing was so impressive that his likeness became the inspiration for Hasbro's Monopoly board game
Who is (J.P.) Morgan?
400
This individual was an Englishman who came up with a air-infused furnace that revolutionized the iron and steel industry, and his furnaces were the primary reason for the success of the Carnegie Steel Company
Who is (Henry) Bessemer?
400
William Jennings Bryan, populist and Democratic Party candidate for president in 1896
Who is the Cowardly Lion?
400
Due to the economic devastation of the South many former slaves were forced into these contractual agreements in order to find work and make a living
What is Sharecropping?
500
Democrats who regained power in the South after the end of Military Reconstruction were known by this term
What are "The Redeemers"?
500
This strike was broken up in 1894 by the Attorney General of the United States who threatened an injunction against the railway switchmen supporting the striking workers
What is the Pullman Strike?
500
The 14th Amendment's equal protection and due process clauses apply to this level of government
What are state or local government?
500
This individual was a significant figure in the labor movement, founding the longest lasting union and serving as its president from 1886 until his death in 1924
Who is (Samuel) Gompers?
500
The site (town and state) where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869
Where is Promontory Point, Utah?
500
The Wicked Witch of the East
Who are the bankers and big business owners?
500
This group marched on Washington D.C. in 1894 demanding government provided jobs on public works projects during an economic downturn
What is Coxey's Army?