Westward Expansion
Name 3 new prominent railroads of that time.
What were the new laws in the South that established racial segregation?
Jim Crow Laws
Who founded the Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who was the woman that established the first settlement house and helped immigrants?
Jane Addams
How were railroads financed?
Private companies built on public lands provided by US land grants.
What Supreme Court case established the idea of "separate but equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Horizontal Integration v.s. Vertical Integration?
Horizontal integration involves dominating ONE particular phase of production while vertical integration involves controlling EVERY step
Name 3 of Thomas Edison's inventions.
Electic light bulb, the phonograph, the mimeograph, the moving picture, or a machine capable of taking X-rays
What did Booker T. Washington encourage?
Education for blacks to gain economic security and power
What was the decision in the case Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois?
The Supreme Court declared states are prohibited from regulating the railroads because the Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate commerce.
Sharecropping
What group believed that people gained wealth by "survival of the fittest"?
Social Darwinists
How did the introduction of the Bessemer Process impact the steel industry?
It allowed steel to be produced cheaply in mass quantities.
What was the Temperance movement and who was the major group that was involved?
The movement advocated against alcohol consumption and comprised mostly of women
Which act required railroads to publish standard rates?
The Interstate Commerce Act
What event officially ended the Reconstruction period?
The Compromise of 1877
What was the name of the law that banned trusts or combinations in business?
What were 3 of the nation's abundant natural resources?
Coal, oil, and iron
Who was Henry George?
A popular journalist that wrote about poverty and proposed the controversial single-tax
What act broke up Indian reservations and distributed land to individual households, in which leftover land was sold to fund civilizing Native Americans?
Dawes Severalty Act
What was the last act- though ineffective- that supported civil rights until the 1950s?
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Name 3 of the prominent labor unions that existed during this time.
National Labor Union, Knights of Labor, and American Federation of Labor (AFL)
What company used interchangeable parts and an assembly line for production?
Ford
What is the term for the criticized political organizations that captured immigrant vote by providing valuable social services and what was the most important one?
Political Machines - Tammany Hall