Farming Out West
West
Industry, Unions and Strikes
Industry, Unions
and Strikes II
and Strikes II
Gilded Age Culture
Immigrants
Immigrants II
Going Out West
Farmers
100
Barbed Wire helped fence in the Great Plains, but this invention gave the plains farmers the water they needed to survive.
What were windmills. 
100
Native Americans were forced off their tribal lands and onto these very arid and unproductive lands.
What are reservations.
100
This strike ended in bloodshed when anarchist threw a bomb at a group of policemen. After public outcry, the Knights of Labor lost over 50% of it's membership even though it was completely blameless.
What was the Haymarket Strike in Chicago.
100
During this strike in Pennsylvania saw workers at a Carnegie still plant exchange gun fire with private Pinkerton guards. In the end, the state militia was called in and the strikers lost.
What was the Homestead Strike?
100
This African American composer combined African rhythms and European instruments to make new sound - ragtime.
Who is Scott Joplin?
100
Most immigrants came to Americans using this type of low cost fair.
What is steerage?
100
Many of the immigrants lived in these cramped and unsanitary type apartments
What were tenements?
100
It's completion on 1869 allowed Americans to travel from the East coast to the West Coast.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
The Patrons of Husbandry was more commonly known as this, when farmers banded together to help one another and fight for lower freight and grain elevator costs
What was the Grange?
200
This invention created by Joseph Glidden closed the "open range" and helped bring an end to the cattle drives.
What was barbed wire.
200
The Native Americans of the Great Plains also lost this, their most prized necessity.
What was bison or buffalo?
200
Samuel Gompers led up this organization, it was and still is the largest labor union in America.
What was the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Today it is known as the AFL-CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations).
200
Many industries forced workers to sign these pledges that forbade them from joining a union if they wanted a job at the factory.
What was a "yellow-dog" contract?
200
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were the largest owners of these in America, spreading scandal and sensational stories.
What were newspapers?
200
They came from Southern and Eastern Europe (after the Civil War) and Asia also.
Who were the New Immigrants?
200
This bridge (created by on Augustus Roebling) allowed New Yorkers to start living in the suburbs.
What was the Brooklyn Bridge?
200
These immigrants on the west coast were instrumental in completing helping to complete the transcontinental railraod
Who were Chinese immigrants?
200
This Supreme Court decision said that only the national or federal government had control over regulating the railroads (overturning part of the Munn v. Illinois decision nine years eatrlier)
What was Wabash v Illinois?
300
This John Deere invention allowed farmers of the Great Plains to more easily plow the tough soil of that region.
What was the steel plow?
300
This Act tried to break up the tribes by offering each family their own 160 acres.
What was the Dawes Severalty Act, 1887?
300
Eugene Debs headed up the American Railway Union and this political party, which promised to distribute profits from major industry to the workers.
What was the Socialist Party?
300
Although this railroad strike started in Chicago, in spread to 27 other states as railroad unions joined forces. The Federal government issued an injunction and Union leader Eugene Debs was thrown in jail for six months.
What was the Pullman Strike?
300
The most famous of these was Ringling Brothers, using the railroads to move from town to town, entertaining millions of Americans.
What were circuses?
300
Lots of freedom
Lots of job opportunities
are examples of these
What are pull factors?
300
This congressional law stopped immigration from Asia for about 40 years.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
This mine was probably America's biggest gold mine (it closed in 2002).
What was Homestake Mine in South Dakota?
300
One of the outcomes of the Wabash v Illinois decision was that Congress created this government entity to oversee and regulate some aspects of the railroads?
What was the Interstate Commerce Commission? (or ICC)
400
This Cyrus McCormick invention allowed farmers to more easily harvest their crops.
What was the mechanical reaper?
400
The worst massacre of the Native Americans happened at this location in South Dakota, as US forces killed (more like murdered) 200 Native American men women and children, ending the "Indian Wars" in 1890
What was Wounded Knee?
400
Industry would use these temporary workers to break strikes.
Who were scabs or replacement workers?
400
This antitrust act hurt unions, not monopolies, because it outlawed any activity that restricted interstate commerce. Industry leaders used this law to stop strikes and the courts agreed.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke were some of the first to allow these college students.
Who were women?
400
Immigrants of the same ethnicities lived together in these communities.
What were ghettos?
400
These immigrants would travel back home after saving lots of money by working in America
What were "Birds of Passage"
400
These people lost their land and their culture when settlers moved west
Who were Native Americans?
400
The Farmer's Alliance (a type of nationwide farmers labor union) unfortunately did not allow this group of farmers to be members.
Who were African American sharecroppers?
500
This type of farming allowed farmers to make the most of the dry Great Plains, plowing deep into the sod (unfortunately this farming technique was also a cause of the dust bowl of the 1930s).
What was dry farming?
500
Young Native Americans were taken from their families to be Americanized (assimilated) using these.
What were schools or boarding schools?
500
Industry would sometimes do this, closing a factory to keep a strike from even starting.
What is a lock out?
500
In In re Debs, the Supreme Court ruled that government could use these to stop strikes that hurt the economy.
What is an injunction?
500
Social sciences became a reality and this famous lawyer argued that one's behavior was determined by how he was brought up.
Who was Clarence Darrow?
(who also was the lawyer for John Scopes!)
500
Immigrants who came from Europe were processed at this location less than a mile from the Statue of Liberty
What was Ellis Island?
500
This ended immigration from Japan
What was the Gentlemen's Agreement (but California had to integrate all Japanese Americans into their public schools)?
500
The Homestead Act would give citizens ____ _____ of land if they worked that land for five years.
What is 160 acres?
500
This insect crushed the cotton growers profits.
What was the Boll Weevil?