Big Business
The titan of the oil industry during the industrial revolution.
Who is John Rockefeller.
What transportation industry made the farmers angry and became a key factor in the populist party.
What is the Railroad industry.
One of the first major labor unions in the United States.
What is The Knights of Labor
What became legal and quickly common practice in the South after the 1896 court case Plessey V. Ferguson.
What is segregation
The last group of Native Americans that had to be forcibly removed from United States territory.
What are the Plains Indians.
The Titan of the railroad industry who also made money buying and selling other companies.
What is JP Morgan.
What caused farmers to produce too much excess and force them into debt.
What is new technology.
What is the famous labor strike that took place with management at Carnegies Steel Plant, killing 10.
What is The Homestead Strike.
A group of people who were violent racists and tried to prevent African-Americans from having all their rights.
What is the KKK
The United States government policy towards Native Americans.
What is relocation, specifically to Oklahoma
Political corruption where mobs offered assistance in exchange for votes.
What are Political Machines.
An example of a local organization to improve farmers lives.
What is Grangers/Farmers Alliance.
people who began to fight for better working conditions in cities.
What is Factory Workers
A system of labor that kept African-Americans working like slaves in perpetual debt to their employers.
What is Sharecropping
The building of the transcontinental railroad and homestead act paid for by the federal government is an example of this.
What is government subsidies.
The reasoning often used by Titans to explain why they have more money than other people.
Social Darwinism.
The political platform of the Populist party including reform which would create free coinage of silver and government regulations of railroads.
What is the Omaha Platform.
A labor riot that resulted in a bomb being thrown and the death of several cops, delegitimizing the movement temporarily.
What is the Haymarket Riot.
What was the South's main export, making up to 75% of their trade.
Cotton.
What type of settlement is a result of westward expansion and valuable resources in the frontier.
Mining Towns.
A belief that the benefits of industrialization and capitalism should be equally shared.
What is Socialism.
What Act devalued the silver currency and put America on the Gold standard and created deflation.
Coinage Act of 1873.
A tactic to to fight union workers by closing a factory so no one can go in and riot or protest.
What is Lockout
Southern Laws created to suppress African-Americans and keep segregation alive.
Jim Crow Laws.
What event happened that caused Roosevelt to for a brief time make America Imperialist.
What is the end of the frontier.