Natives Americans and Nativism
In the West, the immigrants who bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s were from this country.
What is China?
This was one of the few third parties that gained national attention. It was formed by farmers upset about high interest rates and unfair shipping practices.
What is People's/Populist PARTY?
Name of the successful businessman during this time with a negative connotation.
What are robber barons?
Protestant movement to support those in poverty. Believed it was their Christian duty to help.
What is the Social Gospel?
Small, poorly made apartments that the new immigrants moved into in the East during the Gilded Age.
What are tenements?
The government destroyed these to try and suppress Native American resistance.
What are the buffalo?
Because existing city government structures were so disorganized and chaotic, and services to help immigrants assimilate into American society, these organizations provided help to immigrants in return for political support.
What is a Political Machine?
This business practice of purchasing competing companies that produce the same item
What is Horizontal Integration?
The idea put forth by Andrew Carnegie that the wealthy should use their resources to help society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Railroad strike that was broken when the company attached federal mail cars to their sleeper cars, making it a federal offense to stop the cars.
What is the Pullman Strike, 1894?
The first significant law restricting immigration based on race into the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This Supreme Court decision upheld the principle of "separate but equal..."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This philosophy allowed men of wealth, like Carnegie and Rockefeller, to justify the economic inequality that favored them over the nation's poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
Jane Addams is most closely associated with this movement that provided education, child care, and job services to immigrants and women.
What is Settlement House Movement?
First national labor union, dissolved after being wrongfully associated with the Haymarket Affair.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
The United States government's outlawing of the Ghost Dance in 1890 resulted in this massacre.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
The Democratic Party and the Populist Party combined against the Republican Party in this important election.
Double-Why was this called the first modern election?
What is the Election of 1896?
Carnegie's system of business organization that involved combining all phases of the steel industry, from mining to manufacturing, into a single corporation
What is vertical integration?
This prominent figure advocated for African Americans to raise themselves economically before politically.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Strike against Carnegie Steel that garnered sympathy for the strikers after Carnegie built a barbed wire fence around his mill and hired detectives to break the strike.
What is the Pinkerton/Homestead strike?
This U.S. legislation aimed at Native Americans wiped out tribal ownership of property and granted 160 acres to heads of families.
What is The Dawes Act of 1887?
Ended the patronage/spoils system, provide civil service jobs based on merit instead of political favor.
What is The Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883?
This scandal involved a railroad company forming its own construction company, then hiring itself to do work at government expense.
What is the Credit Mobilier scandal?
Written by Edward Bellamy about a utopian 2000 based on socialism.
What is Looking Backward?
Supreme Court case that ruled that a state could not limit how much workers could work after bakers had a 60 hour maximum work week law passed.
What is Lochner v. New York, 1905?