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Settlement of the West
The New South
Farmers
Big Business
Labor Problems
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The last group of Native Americans that had to be forcibly removed from US territory.

Who are the Plains Indians

100
After the Civil War this was made legal under Plessey v. Ferguson.
What is Segregation
100
The Big Business who controlled farmers because of farmers dependence on transporting their crops to distant markets.
What are Railroads
100
The king of the Oil Industry during the Industrial Revolution.
Who is John Rockefeller
100

The first major labor union in the United States.

Who are the Knight of Labor

200

A campaign of native cultural resistance to government policy on reservations that ended in tragedy at the Wounded Knee Massacre. 

What is the Ghost Dance?

200

An example of violence use by the South to limit African-American's access to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment.

What is lynching

200
This caused farmers to go in debt and led to overproduction and falling prices.
What is New Technology
200
An industrialist who got his start in Railroads and then began a career of buying and selling other companies.
What is JP Morgan
200
An example of a conflict between labor and management that took place at Andrew Carnegie's Steel Plant.
What is the Homestead Strike
300
The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Homestead Act paid for by the Federal government by is an example of this.
What are Government Subsidies
300
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North.
What is Sharecropping
300
An example of a local organizations who worked to improve conditions for farmers.
Who are the Grangers or Farmer's Alliance
300
An example of political corruption at the state and local level who exchanged favors for votes.
What are Political Machines
300
Group of people who began to organize and to fight for better conditions in Industrial cities.
Who is Labor or Factory Workers
400

Due to the independent culture in many Western communities, states like Wyoming and North Dakota were among the first to give this right to women in the 1870s?

What is the right to vote?

400
The goal of the New South.
What is to Industrialize like the North
400

Populist leader who famously compared the gold standard to crucifying the country on a Cross of Gold

Who is William Jennings Bryan

400
An example of the justification of wealth created by a small group of people despite the majority of people living in poverty.
What is Social Darwinism or the Gospel of Wealth
400
An example of a conflict between labor and management that erupted after an 8 day strike and a bomb being thrown into the crowd.
What is the Haymarket Riot
500

The law that privatized native communal land and sold off the remainder, stealing huge percentages of land on reservations from native communities. 

What is the Dawes Act?

500
Laws created in the South to enforce Segregation after Reconstruction ended.
What are Jim Crow Laws
500
The political platform for the Populist Party during the election of 1892 that included the Free Coinage of Siver and government regulation of the Railroads.
What is the Omaha Platform
500
A belief that stated the benefits of industrialization should benefit all people equally and all business decisions should be controlled by the government.
What is Socialism
500

The sometimes violent ideology that many who feared the labor movement assumed was really behind most unions and strikes

What is anarchism?