Scandal!
Carrie Nation wanted to chop up American alcohol consumption as part of the ____ movement.
temperance
Cowboys' worst enemy and a farmer's best friend. This invention would keep the cowpokes from driving their cattle over a farmer's land.
Barbed wire
Farmers helped to found the People's Party, also known as _____
Populists
The typewriter, telephone, cash register, railroad refrigerator car, Bessemer process were all ____ of the industrial age.
inventions
"To die rich is to die disgraced," said this charitable steel tycoon.
Andrew Carnegie
This scandal involved a construction company for the Union Pacific Railroad and showed Grant may not be as good a president as he was a war general.
Credit Mobilier
Federal land was given to companies in this industry to develop the western United States.
Railroads
Segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement were the results of these laws in the southern states.
Jim Crow laws
In the late 1800's, the population of the United States exploded and the workforce expanded because of _____
immigration
You might learn not to trust this oil magnate, with his sneaky railway deals, sneaky spying on his competitors, and ruthless consolidation of his industry.
John D. Rockefeller
This scandal involved Grant's personal secretary and tax evasion.
Whiskey Ring
As settlers, prospectors, railroads, and more moved west, with whom did they find themselves in conflict?
American Indians
How did farmers contend with big business?
They organized to resist corporate control of agricultural markets.
In response to the woeful conditions in the cities for the poor, Jane Addams and other women started ____ which sought to provide services and education for families
settlement houses
When a company buys up its competitors we're talking about ____ integration.
horizontal
The political machine: at Tammeny Hall in New York City, this politician was famous for taking bribes.
Boss Tweed
Want 160 acres in the west? Willing to develop it and live there for 5 years? This law will make it happen.
Homestead Act of 1862
How were farmers supposed to pay their debt if they didn't have any money? They proposed coining money from ____ not ____ to influence inflation.
silver, gold
Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, one of many ______.
labor unions
When a company owns all the means of producing its products--Carnegie owned the mines, boats, railroads, and factories to make steel--we're talking about ___ integration.
vertical
This Supreme Court case legitimized the "separate but equal" practice of the Jim Crow South.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This act sought to give American Indians 160 acres and turn them into subsistence farmers. Additionally, it established the boarding schools, hotbeds of assimilation. It wasn't until 1934 that this act would be overturned.
Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
Carrie Chapman Catt argued that women should be able to vote as the leaders of their households, as opposed to the women of the _____ who wanted outright equality to men.
National American Women Suffrage Association
Define the following:
Slum--
Dumbbell Tenement--
Flophouse--
Define the following:
Slum--crowded, filthy city neighborhoods
Dumbbell Tenement--a 7-8 story housing building with ventilation only through an airshaft in the middle
Flophouse--a place to sleep for pennies
Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890