Labor & Capital
Common action taken by labor unions when they were unhappy with the employers
What is a strike
who is Thomas Edison
The name for the act of giving out government jobs to political supporters
An island chain annexed by the United States in 1898 after the queen had been overthrown in 1892.
What is Hawaii
The year that the Philippines gained independence from the United States
What was 1946
The strike against Carnegie's steel plant in which Pinkertons were brought in to confront the strikers
The man who filed the first telephone patent in the United States
who is Alexander Graham Bell
The name of the scandal in which President Grant supporters collected lower taxes on illegal whiskey under the table
The Whiskey Ring
What is the USS Maine
The United States law that divided up Native American reservations into individual parcels
What was the Dawes Severalty Act
The leader of the Pullman Strike who went to jail and became a socialist
Who is Eugene Debs
The man who got the United States to use AC (Alternating Current) power transmission
Who is Westinghouse (Tesla also ok)
Who was President Garfield
The year that the Spanish-American war started in
What was 1898
The incident in Chicago where a bomb exploded after policemen moved in on a protest gathering
What is Haymarket
Who is Frederick Taylor
The president who passed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
Who is President Chester Arthur
The amendment that the United States forced Cuba to include in their constitution to allow for continued influence/interference from the United States.
What was the Platt Amendment
The president who started building up the navy and preparing for imperialism and serious naval power
Who was President Benjamin Harrison
The leader of the Knights of Labor
The material that was used for the filament for Edison's first commercial light bulb
What is carbonized bamboo (just bamboo or Hachiman bamboo also ok)
The president who served two non-consecutive terms during the Gilded Age
who was President Grover Cleveland
What was the Bayonet Constitution
Who was the chief who led the Native American military forces at Custer's Last Stand
Who was Red Cloud