Act that assimilated native americans and adopted native american children to american families
What is the Dawes Act
100
Supreme Court Case that had an end result of segregation
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
100
New process of steel
What is Bessemer process
100
Introduced by Roosevelt, made transportation easier, cut back travel time to only 1 week
What is the panama canal
100
Started tuscany institution, believed african americans should learn trade and become equally economical, and disagreed with WEB du bois
Who is Booker T. Washington?
200
Native Americans beat Custer's army terribly, lead to Battle of Wounded Knee
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
200
old immigrants from west and northern europe, didn't welcome the new immigrants, Protestant
Who are the nativists?
200
Started in Omaha, ended in Sacramento, and met in P.Point Utah
What is the transcontinental railroad?
200
excluded all chinese immigrants in 1882
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
President after Grant, very weak president
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
300
Progressive president, after Taft, and is also known as the heaviest president
Who is William Taft
300
Started because of a wage cut at the steel mill, Henry Frick brought in Pinkerton detectives, and then eventually militia had to get involved
What is the Homestead Strike?
300
Philosophy by Carnegie that said wealthy had a responsibility to carry out philanthropy
What is the gospel of wealth?
300
A) Creator of the telegraph and the Morse Code
B)Creator of the telephone
C)Creator of the lightbulb, phonograph, first modern research lab, motion picture camera
Who is Samuel Morse, Alexander Bell, and Thomas Edison
300
often windowless rooms, slums, often held 4,000 people in a city block, shaped like a dumbbell
What are dumbbell tenements?
400
1862, offered 160 acres of land to any American citizen 21 or older, 600,000,000 were sold by 1900, 2/3 failed
What is the homestead act?
400
Business leaders built their fortunes by stealing from the public
Drained country of natural resources
Drove competitors to ruin
Paid workers meager wages
Forced workers to work in dangerous and unhealthy conditions
Who are robber barons?
400
Increased the supply of goods
Raised productivity
Expanded markets
Created jobs, which enabled people to buy more goods and raise their standard of living
Established museums, libraries and universities
Served the public
Who are captains of industry
400
sold company in 1900 for $400 million to a conglomerate U.S. Steel headed by J.P. Morgan
Who is Andrew Carnegie
400
regulated how much the RR companies could charge
What is the interstate commerce act
500
What party and person were for gold?
what party and person were for silver?
Republicans and Cleveland
Populists and Bryan
500
who wrote the cross of gold speech and what was it about
William J. Bryan, to endorse the free silver at a ratio of silver to gold of 16 to 1. (This inflationary measure would have increased the amount of money in circulation and aided cash-poor and debt-burdened farmers.)
500
William McKinley-Republican vs. William J. Bryan- Democrat/Populist
Who ran in the election of 1896?
500
union leader, socialist party, arrested because of homestead strike
Who is Eugene Debs
500
Why did republicans control the government?
They had more money because of the rich men a part of the party.