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Individuals
Anything Goes
100
Vertical integration of business was made most relevant by what Gilded Age steel company leader?
Who was CARNEGIE
100
What individual believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was economic independence and education?
Who was BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
100
African American cavalry and soldiers who served in the frontier wars were known as:
What are BUFFALO SOLDIERS
100
The steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of:
Who is BESSEMER
100
The invention of the internal combustion engine allowed what industry to become huge business?
What is OIL.
200
A lack of class consciousness was a major reason what labor organization failed?
What is the KNIGHTS OF LABOR
200
An 1871 fire in what US city caused American cities to increasingly abandoned wooden construction for brick and steel in their downtown building?
What is CHICAGO
200
What tribe was Chief Joseph the chief of?
What is NEZ PERCE'
200
What Apache Chief fought the US & Mexico for expansion of Apache land in battles known as the Apache Wars?
What is GERONIMO
200
America's first billion-dollar corporation was:
What is UNITED STATES STEEL
300
Efforts to regulate the monopolizing practices of railroad corporations first came in the form of action by what group?
What is State Legislatures
300
In 1900, the TWO largest cities in the world were
What is LONDON & NEW YORK CITY
300
What individual was owner of the "palace railroad car" company and the company town where a famous strike began?
Who was GEORGE PULLMAN
300
The "Gospel of Wealth" held that the wealthy should display moral responsibility in the use of their God-given money. What very wealthy individual endorsed this belief?
Who is ANDREW CARNEGIE
300
The ____ Amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by state governments.
What is 14th AMENDMENT
400
The "interlocking directorate" was used by what individual who would buy out Andrew Carnegie & create U.S. Steel in 1901?
What is JP MORGAN
400
The TWO immigrant ethnic groups who were most harshly treated in the mid to late nineteenth century were
What is the IRISH & CHINESE
400
What Act was designed to promote Indian assimilation into American society?
What is Dawes Severalty Act
400
The man who opened Japan to the United States was
What is MATTHEW C. PERRY
400
The most effective and most enduring labor union of the post-Civil War period was the
What is the AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
500
State legislatures could not regulate railroads because railroads were interstate businesses and could not be regulated by any single state was the decision in what Supreme Court Case?
What is Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois.
500
An immigrant who came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe was given the name:______
What is a "BIRD OF PASSAGE"
500
What individual was head of the American Railway Union that organized the Pullman Strike?
Who was EUGENE V. DEBS
500
What Senator proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by popular sovereignty?
What is Stephen A. Douglas
500
What land purchase was quickly approved by the US Senate, had enthusiastic public support, is considered the one of the best real estate bargain in US history & was only three cents an acre?
What is THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE