This was a philosophy that advocated minimal government regulation of business.
What is laissez-faire.
100
These are the name of the slum buildings many immigrants lived in.
What is tenements
100
These were created as a result of workers organizing against their employers to seek better working conditions and wages.
What is labor unions.
100
Farmers experienced overproduction and a decrease in crop prices as a result of this.
What is a single crop economy.
100
Joseph Glidden's invention gave farmers greater protection against wandering cattle.
What is barbed wire.
200
This is the process of monopolizing the whole business by controlling all of the parts from raw materials to the finished product.
What is vertical integration.
200
Congress placed a 10-year moratorium on Chinese immigration with this act.
What is the Chinese Immigration Act of 1882.
200
This was a written contract between employers and employees in which the employees agreed to not join a union while working for the company.
What is a yellow-dog contract.
200
The Populist Party began as a grassroots local movement called this.
What is the Grange.
200
Helen Hunt Jackson wrote this book about the government's mistreatments of Native Americans.
What is "A Century of Dishonor".
300
Herbert Spencer's view that survival of the fittest pertained to society in that if you were poor it was because you were not doing anything to change your circumstances.
What is Social Darwinism.
300
A movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation and help to the poor in society.
What is the Social Gospel.
300
This labor union was successful in many strike until it was connected to the Haymarket Riots of 1886.
What is the Knights of Labor.
300
This Supreme Court decision stated that states had the ability to regulate private property if it affected the public interest.
What is Munn v. Illinois.
300
The decimation of this was one way in which the government tried to control the lives of Native Americans.
What is the bison or buffalo.
400
The contributing of money to public works projects by the wealthy.
What is philanthropy.
400
She was a humanitarian reformer who established a settlement house for the homeless because she was disgusted with inner city problems.
Who is Jane Addams.
400
This labor strike led to a all out battle between the strikers and the strike breakers, the Pinkertons.
What is the Homestead Strike of 1892.
400
This 1887 act gave the federal government the ability to regulate all aspects of interstate commerce.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act.
400
This act provided 160 acres of free public land to any settler who would live on it.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862.
500
Originally created to curb businesses, it was mainly used to slow down labor unions.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act.
500
The city boss, ward boss and precinct captains made up this.
What is the political machine.
500
This labor union was developed by Eugene Debs after an the unsuccessful Great American Railroad Strike of 1877.
What is the American Railway Union.
500
This was the economic foundation of William Jennings Bryan's 1896 campaign.
What is the silver standard.
500
This theory states that when hard times hit, the unemployed move west and take up farming on the frontier.