Not- So New South
These laws enforced racial segregation in the south
Jim Crow Laws
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
We met in Utah with a golden spike,
Uniting a nation in a way people liked.
We shrank time, markets, and space,
and helped industry pick up the pace.
Transcontinental Railroad
Unlike earlier hostility toward Irish and German immigrants, this late 1800s belief intensified in response to “new immigrants” from Southern and Eastern Europe
Nativism
This Oil Tycoon used horizontal integration to build the Standard Oil Monopoly.
John D. Rockefeller
This NYC political machine run by Boss Tweed
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Babe Ruth was inducted to this in 1936
Tammany Hall of Fame
This journalist promoted industrialization and economic diversification in the Post-Reconstruction South, coining the term "New South"
Henry Grady
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.
Dawes Act
Who is this?
I opened my settlement house not for the wealth of the fame,
but to help the poor- Hull was its name.
Jane Addams
Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell are famous examples of these investigative writers who revealed the dark side of industrial America.
Muckrakers
This business leader dominated the railroad industry and build a vast transportation empire, earning him the nickname "Commodore"
Cornelius Vanderbilt
This Lakota leader defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn
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Where you want your dart to land
Sitting Bull's Eye
Ida B. Wells was a co-founder of this civil rights organization in 1909, alongside W.E.B. Bu Bois and other activists.
NAACP
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Native Americans
A train ride, a case, a ruling so cruel.
This made "separate but equal" the rule.
Plessy v. Ferguson
During the Gilded Age, the government supported this economic policy, French for "let do."
Laissez-Faire
Carnegie dominated the steel industry but also promoted philanthropy (giving) with his idea known as...
The Gospel of Wealth
Dorothy said this while clicking her ruby slippers
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The act that offered settlers 160 acres of land to encourage frontier settlement
There's no place like Homestead Act
This leader promoted vocational education and economic self-reliance as a response to segregation.
Booker T. Washington
This 1893 historical argument claimed that the existence of free land and westward expansion shaped American democracy and identity, and warned that the closing of the frontier marked a turning point in U.S. history.
Turner's Frontier Thesis
What act is this?
"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.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This 1890 law aimed to break up monopolies and trusts but was initially used more against labor unions than Big Business
Sherman Antitrust Act
This banking titan bailed out the U.S. Treasury during the Panic of 1893
J.P. Morgan
This phrase describing someone who is kind and generous
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the late 19th-century monetary system that backed U.S. currency with a precious metal and was a central debate in the 1896 presidential election between McKinley and Bryan
Heart of Gold Standard
This leader rejected gradual approaches to equality and instead pushed for immediate political and social rights for African Americans in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
W. E. B. Du Bois
This group of African American migrants moved west to Kansas in the 1870s to escape racial violence and seek economic opportunities.
Exodusters
What event is this?
In a steel town, we went on strike over lowered wages.
No negotiation: Pinkertons and state militia put us in cages.
Homestead Steel Strike
This 1890 tariff, one of the highest in U.S. History, was meant to protect American industries but hurt farmers by raising prices.
McKinley Tariff
This business strategy, used by industrialists like Andrew Carnegie, involved controlling every step of production from raw materials to finished products.
Vertical Integration
Phrase yelled at the start of a race
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The author who coined the term "Gilded Age"
On your Mark Twain