Reconstruction
Amendment which abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Term used to describe the lack of government involvement in the economy.
Labor union which got blamed for the Haymarket bombing.
The Act which tried to assimilate Native children into American society and culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
What was the 17th Amendment?
Direct voting for senators.
Attempt by Southerners to create a new form of labor to work around the abolishment of slavery.
What is sharecropping?
Who came up with the Gospel of Wealth and owned steel monopoly.
Andrew Carnegie.
The first recognized Labor Union in the U.S. Also gave us the 8 hour work day.
What is the National Labor Union?
The last major conflict between the U.S. military and Native Americans.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
Provided poor immigrants with social services in exchange for loyalty.
What are political machines?
Compromise that ended Reconstruction in the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
John D. Rockefeller.
Something sent out by one business to other businesses in order to exclude people from working there.
Name of the treaty which gave tribes $50,000 annually to not attack on trails out West.
What is the Treaty of Ft. Laramie?
Political party which formed to oppose the lack of government regulation in the economy.
What is the Populist Party?
Name for Southerners who supported Reconstruction.
When someone owns every aspect of a product or company in order to form a monopoly.
What is Vertical Integration?
The strike that gave us labor day. Also ended the popularity of labor unions for a while.
What is the Pullman strike (Railroad strike)?
Name of the spiritual practice which made the Natives believe that their buffaloes would return and the settlers would go away (basically peace).
What is the Ghost Dance?
Would allow the unlimited coinage of gold and silver, an idea popularized among farmers after the Omaha Platform.
What is bimetallism?
Lincoln's method to safely readmit Confederate States back into the union after the Civil War.
What is Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan?
The rags to riches story which gave many new immigrants false hope.
What is the Horatio Alger myth?
Person who promoted the idea of collective bargaining and was also the President of the American Federation of Labor Union.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Name of the American General that marched into Sioux territory.
Who is General George Custer?
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?