Category 1
The Transcontinental Railroad was built using the labor of these two immigrant groups.
What were the Irish and Chinese?
This was the nickname of the post-Civil War era characterized by the growth of monopolies and political corruption.
What was the Gilded Age?
He was the leader of the Tammany Hall political machine.
Who was Boss Tweed?
This legislation completely barred the immigration of an Asian nationality to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This political party was formed due to the grievances of farmers and their abuse by railroad monopolies and banks.
What was the Populist Party?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was the group of legislators who passed the Reconstruction Amendments, which ensured civil rights.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This Indigenous spiritual movement promised the return of the buffalo and the disappearance of the white man.
What was the Ghost Dance movement?
These were laws passed in Southern states to disenfranchise former slaves before Jim Crow Laws.
What were the Black Codes?
This amendment granted citizenship and due process of law to all people born in the United States - regardless of race.
What was the 14th Amendment?
These were the tactics employed by Carnegie and Rockefeller to eliminate corporate competition.
What was horizontal and vertical integration?
This labor union was unique in allowing the membership of high-skilled and low-skilled workers and African-Americans.
Who were the Knights of Labor?
What was carpetbaggers?
This legislation was passed to curb the power and formation of monopolies.
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This agreement ended Reconstruction, as Northern troops were removed from the South.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This legislation sought to "civilize" Native Americans by dividing up their land into small allotments meant for farming.
What was the Dawes Act?
He became the first President to be impeached due to his vetoes of civil rights legislation.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
What was Haymarket Square?
This short-lived Reconstruction agency was set up to offer services such as food and education to former slaves and poor Southern whites.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This legislation granted 160 acres of Western land to anyone who improved it and farmed it for at least five years.
What was the Homestead Act?
This was the first nationwide labor strike due to wage cuts which led to violent clashes.
What was the Railroad Strike of 1877?
This was a term that referred to post-War Southern Republicans.
What was scalawag?
This organization offered the means necessary for women to enter the world of politics or policy. (full name)
What was the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
This was a labor conflict that occurred at Carnegie's steel plant due to wage cuts.
What was the Homestead Strike?
This post-War economic crisis led to massive unemployment as railroad companies defaulted on their loans.
What was the Panic of 1873?
This law was passed to diminish patronage within U.S. politics after the assassination of President Garfield.
What was the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act?
These were the two most prominent members of the Radical Republicans.
Who were Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens?
She expanded the WCTU's mission to include suffrage and societal reforms.
Who was Frances Willard?
These two Indigenous leaders led the Sioux in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who were Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?
This proclaimed socialist led the Pullman Strike and ran for president several times.
Who was Eugene V. Debs?
This economic crisis at the end of the 19th century led to heated political debates regarding silver and the gold standard.
What was the Panic of 1893?