New South
the word to describe the era of extreme wealth and industrialization (but also an era of extreme poverty and poor conditions)
gilded
This 1876 battle saw Sioux and Cheyenne warriors, led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, defeat U.S. forces under General George Custer.
BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN OR CUSTER’S LAST STAND
A train ride, a case, a ruling so cruel. this made "separate but equal" the rule.
Plessy vs. Ferguson
During the gilded age, the government supported this economic policy, French for “let do.”
Laissez Faire
when Carnegie controlled every stage of an industry?
Vertical Integration
This system replaced slavery in many Southern states, keeping formerly enslaved people and poor whites in cycles of debt and dependence on landowners
Sharecropping
This 1887 law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual plots, but ultimately led to the loss of millions of acres.
In a steel town, we went on strike over lowered wages. No negotiation: Pinkertons & state militia put us in cages.
Homestead Mill
This NYC political machine run by boss tweed
Tammany Hall
Another word for only controlling one stage of an industry but controlling it completely?
trust or monopoly
Confederate Daughters of America re-wrote or revised American History glorifying the KKK & Confederate Soldiers & describing slaves as happy and content in slavery. What was this called?
LOST CAUSE
This historian argued in 1893 that the closing of the frontier marked the end of an important era in American democracy and development.
Frederick Jackson Turner
"Give us your tired," the statue stands, But not from certain eastern lands. They helped to grow the West so fast, Yet in return, they were outcast. What Act caused this outcast?
Chinese Exclusion Act
This business leader dominated the railroad industry and built a vast transportation empire, earning him the nickname "Commodore."
Vanderbilt
Name of the famous Native American boarding school in Pennsylvania?
Carlisle
The term for Southern Democrats who sought to restore white rule and overturn Reconstruction reforms
REDEEMERS
This group of African American migrants moved west to Kansas in the 1870s to escape racial violence and seek economic opportunities. Named for a book of the bible
Exodusters
Which union allowed all groups of people (men, women, whites, people of color)?
Knights of Labor
This oil tycoon used horizontal integration to build the Standard Oil monopoly
Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan controlled monopolies & mergers, his most famous being whose invention factory in Menlo Park NJ, today known as General Electric?
Thomas Edison
What group of Women rewrote American History making the Civil War not about slavery.
Confederate Daughters of America
This event led to the death of 300 Native Americans when they were practicing the Ghost Dance.
Wounded Knee
What act outlawed the Spoils System?
Pendelton Act
Herbert Spencer justified extreme wealth with an application of the Theory of survival of the Fittest to humanity & why the poor should die off. What was this called?
Social Darwinism
term for men who helped jump this country from 5th to 1st in Industry in about 34 years after the Civil War?
Captains of Industry