Scandal!
Carrie Nation wanted to chop up American alcohol consumption as part of the ____ movement.
temperance
African Americans who left the South seeking land in Kansas were known as....
Exodusters
Farmers hoped to change the laws by founding the ___________ Party, also known as _____
People's; Populists
Access to natural resources in the West for businesses changed from the mid-1800s to the late 1800s mostly due to which communications system invention?
The telegraph
"To die rich is to die disgraced," said this charitable steel tycoon.
Andrew Carnegie
This 1896 Supreme Court case legalized segregation
Plessy vs. Ferguson
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 the immigration of what three groups?
Asian, southern Europe, Eastern Europe...Bonus 100 points: but in what decade did the government start restricting 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
Low wages and dangerous working conditions led workers to form...
What are labor Unions? 100 Bonus Points: Name one...
As settlers, prospectors, railroads, and more moved west, with whom did they find themselves in conflict?
American Indians
Farmers organized these to resist corporate control of agricultural markets to combat big business.
What Cooperatives, or the Grange, or the Farmers' Alliance, or the Populist Party
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
This prevailing belief promoted by Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations economic theory book led to governments being less active in regard to the economy.
Laissez-faire
The political machine: at Tammany 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 labor union known as the _________________
American Federation of Labor
This law was designed to limit the power of railroads by providing more regulation of railroad costs in 1887, but it was poorly enforced
The Interstate Commerce Act
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
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
In the Gilded Age, this political party generally favored Northern business interests...and this candidate won on their ticket in 1896.
Republican, McKinley
By recruiting the loyalty of immigrants, powerful and sometimes corrupt political machines were created, such as __________________ in New York City
Tammany Hall
1890 law regulating competition, designed to prevent monopolies and unfair business practices
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act