Settlement of the West
This act granted 160 acres of land to settlers who improved it within five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This act aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal land into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
The amendment that ended slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
These organizations used political influence to control city governments during the Gilded Age.
What are political machines?
This inventor developed the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
These two companies constructed the Transcontinental Railroad.
What are the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad companies?
Native children were sent to these institutions to be assimilated into American culture.
What are boarding schools?
These were strategies used to prevent African Americans from voting after Reconstruction.
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
This political cartoonist exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall.
Who is Thomas Nast?
This process revolutionized steel production and spurred industrial growth.
What is the Bessemer process?
The construction of this railroad disrupted the lives of Native American tribes.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This system confined Native Americans to specific areas and significantly limited their freedom.
What is the reservation system?
This group of African Americans moved west to escape racial oppression in the South.
Who are the Exodusters?
This law aimed to end the spoils system and introduced merit-based hiring for federal jobs.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This inventor is known for the phonograph and the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The name of the company that built the western rail of the transcontinental railroad (a) and the people that built it (b)
What is the Central Pacific Company and the Chinese?
Federal policies sought to diminish this connection to their land and spiritual identity.
What is their connection to land and spirituality?
This Supreme Court decision upheld segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This scandal involved corrupt dealings in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Credit Mobilier scandal?
Industrialization led to the growth of cities, including this Midwest hub for meatpacking.
What is Chicago?
The name of the places that popped up along the transcontinental railroad
What are boomtowns?
These two federal policies aimed to assimilate Native Americans but had different methods and impacts.
What are the Dawes Act and boarding schools?
These laws (a) and violent acts (b) significantly impacted African American communities during the late 1800s.
What are Jim Crow laws and lynching?
These groups experienced economic inequality compared to wealthy industrial capitalists during the Gilded Age.
Who are farmers and wage earners?
These two entrepreneurs dominated the oil and steel industries during the Gilded Age.
Who are John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie?