West & post War
Adoption of cultural norms and values of a dominant culture by the minority groups; usually means banning minority customs.
What is assimilation?
What is laissez-faire?
The industrial capitalists and the leaders of industry also had this derogatory name.
What are robber barons?
The release of this book by muckraker Upton Sinclair, prompted federal laws about food safety.
What is The Jungle?
This act banned the immigration of an entire racial group and created barriers to citizens of the same group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
law offering 160 acres of land for free to settlers who will cultivate and improve the land.
What is the Homestead Act?
A political movement of farmers and laborers during the Gilded Age, advocating for economic and political power to shift from elites to people.
What is the Populist Movement or Populist Party?
This industrialist was also a philanthropist and wrote an essay explaining how society benefits when there are wealthy people willing to support the arts.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This movement urged Christians to solve social problems including tenements, labor conditions and temperance.
What is the Social Gospel?
This ideology argues that social inequality is natural and comes from inherent ability or lack thereof.
What is Social Darwinism?
This act broke up communal tribal lands and reservations in the West and offered citizenship to natives who assimilate.
What is the Dawes Act?
Local political organizations that used graft and bribery to organize business, immigration and the poor in a city.
What are political machines?
This popular labor union was irreparably harmed after the bombing at the Haymarket Affair.
This was the first federal regulation agency meant to ensure non-discriminatory rates for cross state transportation.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
This is the practice of merging with business competitors to form a monopoly or trust and dominate an industry.
What is horizontal integration?
Supreme Court ruling that separate facilities would not violate citizens rights as long as the facilities were equal.
An addendum to voting law in the south that exempted citizens from poll and literacy taxes if their family members had been allowed to vote before the Civil War; disenfranchising many.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
This was the first national labor uprising forcing shutdowns in 14 states and showing the government's willingness to use force against workers.
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
The assassination of this Republican "forgotten president" led to the end of the patronage system by the Pendleton Civil Service Act.
Who is James Garfield?
This election was known as the first modern election due to the use of propaganda, large scale fundraising and the uniting of the Populist party with one of the main parties.
What is the election of 1896?
What is the "New South" movement?
a late 19th century farmers movement that advocates for standardized transport rates, education and political organization
What is the Grange Movement?
This popular union leader ran for president several times and started the Socialist party of America.
Who is Eugene V Debs?
Populists and other poor Americans wanted this as the new standard for the financial backing of paper currency after the Panic of 1893.
In this famous speech, Booker T Washington claimed that African Americans should work to prove their worth rather than fight to end Jim Crow.
What is the "Atlanta Compromise" speech?