Industry
This is the term used to describe a company that has complete control over a specific industry.
What is "Monopoly"?
Workers would often form these organizations to protect each other and demand better treatment from their bosses.
What are Labor Unions?
This massive infrastructure project connected the East and West coasts of the US for the first time.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This agricultural system rented out small parcels of farmland in return for payment in the form of a share of the harvest.
What is sharecropping?
This is a negative term used to describe ruthless business owners and industrialists.
What is "Robber Baron"?
This is the term used in the 18th and 19th century to describe the voting rights sought by women.
What is "Suffrage"?
This federal law offered free/cheap western land to any American willing to go and farm on it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This supreme court case legalized racial segregation and declared the "separate but equal" was constitutional.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This is the term used for a large corporation during the Gilded Age.
What is "Trust"?
This was the first nationwide labor union and it welcomed workers from nearly every background and skill-set.
What were the Knights of Labor?
This federal law limited the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Landowners and businessmen exploited a loophole in the 13th amendment by using this method of accessing free/cheap labor.
What is convict-leasing?
Inspired by the theory of evolution, this is the belief that the wealthy are successful because they are innately "fitter" and better than the poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
This was a massive strike outside Chicago that stopped the railroads in 27 states and led to the US Army being sent to break it up.
What is the Pullman Strike?
He was a major leader of the Free Silver Movement and ran for president three times as a Populist candidate.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This early civil rights leader emphasized the importance of job skills and friendly relationships with white Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Who are Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Morgan, Gould etc.?
This was a Christian social movement that tried to use religious teachings to address social problems in America.
What is the Social Gospel?
This federal law forced Native Americans onto small reservations and confiscated any leftover land to be sold to white settlers.
What is the Dawes Act?
This early civil rights leader emphasized the importance of higher education and political protest.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?