The Gilded Age
The derogatory name given to the richest 1% of business leaders during this time period.
Who are the robber barrons?
This group was known for bringing to light corruption in society through media.
Who were the muckrakers?
This battle was a total loss for the US and marked as a great victory for Plains Indians resisting subjugation.
What is The Battle of Little Bighorn?
This term describes a company that owns all competing companies in the same field.
What is a monopoly or horizontal integration?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This tradition was performed by Plains Indians to connect with the dead and bring back their ancestral land.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This term describes a business that owns all the steps in business, including sourcing a product, processing it, and distributing it.
What is vertical integration?
This country was completely banned from immigrating to the US in 1882 through federal legislation.
Who are the Chinese?
These commercial farms became popular out West and often focused on growing a single type of crop.
What is a bonanza farm?
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This company's new moving assembly line allowed for cheaper production of materials and higher wages for workers.
What is Ford?
This act split up tribal land, but promised Native Americans they could get some back if they gave up their current way of life.
What was the Dawes Act?
This belief popularized during the Gilded Age taught that the poor were poor because they were unfit for society, therefor the government should not help them.
What is Social Darwinism?
This deal was brokered by Teddy Roosevelt to try and find a compromise between the coal miner union and business owners.
What is the Square Deal?
This massacre of over 200 Native Americans was an attempt to disarm powerful tribes on the Plains and prevent violent uprisings.
What is the massacre at Wounded Knee?