Under the Homestead Act, those who met the Act's qualifications could receive this:
Free land.
100
The term "urbanization" refers to a major movement of population to these areas.
Cities
100
Workers' Unions were originally formed to do this:
Protect workers' rights (against low wages and poor working conditions)
100
This man was accused of being the leader of the group responsible for the Haymarket bombing.
Albert Parsons
100
This new technology helped people move around the United States faster and resulted in many people moving to cities.
Railroads.
200
The Homestead Act was meant to improve the United States by bringing in more of these two things.
Food and Money.
200
Many immigrants moving to the city for work would be forced to live in these crowded, uncomfortable structures.
Tenements.
200
This man was in charge of the Steel Plant at which the Homestead Strike took place.
Henry Clay Frick.
200
The Labor Movement wanted to achieve these two things for factory workers.
Better hours and higher wages.
200
This is a situation in which a single business controls all of a certain product, eliminating competition.
Monopoly
300
Under the Homestead Act, in order for land to be "free," a person had to meet these qualifications.
farm the land for 5 years and show improvement (by the testimony of two witnesses).
300
One major reason many people moved to cities in the Industrial Revolution was this.
Job opportunities/Factory work
300
The ultimate outcome of the Homestead Strike was this.
The union was broken and workers returned to work for their original wages.
300
This group, thought to be responsible for Haymarket, believed that the best government is self government and the U.S. government should not exist.
Anarchists
300
A situation in which a business is recognized as a person by the Constitution
Corporation
400
A later addition to the Homestead Act which allowed the Act to apply to Native Americans was called this.
The Dawes Act.
400
This billionaire and owner of a steel monopoly was originally an immigrant factory worker making just over a dollar a week.
Andrew Carnegie
400
This group was called in to help defend the Homestead Steel factory against strikers.
The Pinkertons.
400
The outcome of the trial for the men held responsible for the Haymarket Bombing was this
They were found guilty and executed.
400
This act, passed by the government, made it illegal for businesses to control all of a certain product or for businesses to form partnerships that were too powerful.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
500
Under the Dawes Act, Native Americans would receive a piece of former reservation land back if they met these two qualifications:
Leave their tribe and adopt the ways of white Americans (become an American citizen).
500
The book published in the late 1800s which revealed what tenement life was really like for those forced to live there was called this.
How the Other Half Lives
500
The owner of the steel company at which the Homestead Strike occurred was this man.
Andrew Carnegie.
500
In American Anarchism, these three things would be gone from society
Centralized government, money (wages), and property ownership.
500
The Chinese Exclusion Act was an Act which caused this to happen.