People
This business man specialized in banking and bought out Andrew Carnegie.
J. P. Morgan
This was added to the Monroe Doctrine to justify U.S. intervention in the affairs of Latin American countries.
The Roosevelt Corollary.
A strike by railroad workers upset by drastic wage cuts. The strike was led by socialist Eugene Debs but not supported by the American federation of labor. Eventually President Grover Cleveland intervened, and federal troops forced an end to the strike.
Pullman Strike
What was the outcome of the "Plessy v. Ferguson" Supreme Court case?
"separate but equal" facilities were legally permissible
Series of laws passed in the southern states in the 1880s and 1890s that segregated the races in many facets of life, including public conveyances, waiting areas, bathrooms, and theaters; it legalized segregation and was upheld as constitutional in Plessy v. Fergusson.
Jim Crow Laws
Who was the corrupt leader of Tammany Hall?
Boss Tweed
Name the act
Assumed that public land should be administered in a way to promote frontier settlement.
The Homestead Act
This organization was formed to take action and break the strangling grip of the railroads.
The Farmers Alliance
Originally was formed by women to help immigrant adapt to American customs and language.
Hull house
Laws in southern states that exempted voters from taking literacy tests or paying poll taxes if their grandfathers had voted as of Jnauary 1, 1867; it effectively gave white southerners the vote and disenfranchised African Americans.
Grandfather clause
This entrepreneur was in North Carolina and made money in the Tobacco industry.
James Duke
This act did the following:
dissolved many tribes as legal entities
tried to make rugged individualists of the Indians
promoted Americanization of Native Americans
The Dawes Severality Act (1887)
Formed in 1866, it sought to improve the rights and working conditions of all workers, regardless of their trade or skill level. They fought for an eight-hour workday, greater equality in the workplace, and the right to organize.
National Labor Union
What were three ways African Americans were disenfranchised by Southern whites?
literacy requirements
poll taxes
grandfather clauses
A major scandal in Grant's second term; a construction company, aided by members of Congress, billed the government out of $20-40 million in building the transcontinental railroad. Members of Congress were bribed to cover up the overcharges.
Credit Mobiler Scandal
Only Democrat elected to presidency from 1856 to 1912; he served two nonconsecutive terms; elected in 1884, losing in 1888, and winning again in 1892. His second term was marred by the depression of 1893
Grover Cleveland
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Were founded in 1869 as a secret society of garnet workers in Philadelphia, but emerged as a national movement by 1878. They believed that fraternity was harnessed to labor reform, and intended to set up factories and shops that would lead to a cooperative commonwealth.
Knights of Labor
Who is the quote from?
"The talented tenth should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites."
W.E.B. DuBois
Reform passed by Congress that restricted the spoils system; passed in part in reaction to assassination of President Garfield by a disappointed office seeker in 1881, it established the U.S. Civil Service Commission to administer a merit system for hiring in government jobs.
Pendleton Act
This person gained the Democratic Party nomination in 1896 primarily because he eloquently supported the demand for the unlimited coinage of silver.
William Jennings Bryan
Granted public lands to states to support higher education
The Morill Act of 1862
Name the event that had the following:
Company officials called in armed Pinkerton detectives to crush the strike
The state militia sent troops to break up the strike.
Workers were very angry over pay cuts.
Homestead Strike (1892)
Occurred when Custer marched his column of men deep into Sioux territory to stop possible uprising due to his claim to gold in the Black Hills. Custer came upon 2500 Sioux warriors at this place. The colonel and his men were killed and the Native Americans faced revenge from whites.
Custers Last Stand or Battle of the Little Bighorn River
A largely farmers' party aiming to inflate currency and to promote government action against railroads and trusts; it also called for a graduated income tax and immigration restrictions. Its platform was never enacted in the 1890s , but it became the basis for some Progressive reforms in the early twentieth century. It is also known as the People's Party.
Populist party