Industrialization & Business
Labor & Working Conditions
Farmers & Populism
Immigration & Urban Life
Politics & Reform
100

What term refers to the belief that the government should not interfere in the economy?

What is laissez-faire capitalism?

100

What 1894 strike against a railroad car company ended with federal troops and a court case?

What is the Pullman Strike?

100

What political party emerged in the 1890s to support farmers and workers?

What is the Populist Party?

100

What 1882 law banned most Chinese immigrants?

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

100

What 1896 presidential candidate ran on a platform of free silver and reform?

Who is William Jennings Bryan?

200

What act was passed in 1890 to limit monopolies and trusts?

What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?

200

What major labor union was led by Samuel Gompers and focused on practical economic gains?

What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

200

What was the Populist Party's platform adopted in 1892 called?

What is the Omaha Platform?

200

What movement applied Christian ethics to solving social problems?

What is the Social Gospel?


200

What economic event in 1893 caused widespread unemployment and strikes?

What is the Panic of 1893?

300

What business tactic did John D. Rockefeller use to consolidate the oil industry?

What is horizontal integration?

300

What tragic 1886 event hurt the reputation of the Knights of Labor?

What is the Haymarket Bombing?

300

What law created the first federal attempt to regulate railroads?

What is the Interstate Commerce Act?

300

What type of housing did most poor urban immigrants live in?

What are tenements?

300

What 1883 law created exams for federal jobs and limited patronage?

What is the Pendleton Act?

400

What strategy did Andrew Carnegie use to control every step of steel production?

What is vertical integration?


400

What term describes contracts that forced workers to promise not to join a union?

What is a yellow-dog contract?

400

What term describes the economic policy of coining unlimited silver to expand the money supply?

What is free silver?

400

What type of public facility helped assimilate immigrants and support the poor?

What is a settlement house?

400

What group of Republicans supported reform and opposed patronage?

What are the Mugwumps?


500

What term describes the theory that the fittest businesses and individuals naturally succeed?

What is Social Darwinism?

500

What percentage of American workers belonged to unions by 1900?

What is 3 percent?

500

What 1896 speech criticized the gold standard and supported bimetallism?

What is the Cross of Gold speech?

500

What immigrant processing center opened in 1892 in New York?

What is Ellis Island?

500

What cartoonist exposed corruption in Boss Tweed’s political machine?

Who is Thomas Nast?