PERIOD 6 REVIEW

Vocab

100

A period of rapid industrialization, economic growth, and political corruption. What was its nickname?

Gilded Age

200

A new business structure used by robber barons to limit market competition 

Trust

300

Only the best businesses will survive (also applied to races)

Social Darwinism

400

Protestant movement that advocated for social reforms as an expression of Christian faith

the Social Gospel Movement

500

Provide two changes the Populists advocated for.

-Coinage of silver

-Nationalization of the railroads

-gradual income tax 

-direct election of senators

-8 hour workday

People

100

Industrialist. Pittsburgh. Steel. Vertical Integration.

Andrew Carnegie

200

Standard Oil. Horizonal Integration. 

John D. Rockefeller 

300

Political Machine. Tammany Hall. New York. 

Boss Tweed

400

Chicago. Hull House. 

Jane Addams

500

The spoils system ended after the assassination of this president. 

James Garfield. 

Groups

100

Founded by Samuel Gompers. Focused on skilled labor and "bread and butter" issues

American Federation of Labor

200

Union opened to all workers- declined after the Haymarket Affair

Knights of Labor

300

African Americans who migrated west from the Jim Crow South seeking freedom and economic opportunities

Exodusters

400

Farmer's group aimed at promoting economic and social well-being for rural communities

The Grange

500

The final battle of the US against the Lakota Sioux, resulting in the deaths of 250 men, women, and children. Tensions included the Ghost Dance movement. 

Battle of Wounded Knee

Laws

100

First federal law to prohibit a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States.

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Discuss nativism

200

Passed to limit the power of monopolies, but mostly used against labor unions at first

Sherman Antitrust Act

300

Landmark federal law aimed at regulating railroad rates and practices. Weak at first. 

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.

400

Law passed to end the spoils system. Jobs must be awarded based on merit. 

Pendleton Act

500

Divided Native American tribal lands into individual allotments. 

Dawes (Severalty) Act

Random

100

Where did immigrants enter the United States on the Atlantic Seaboard and the Pacific?

Ellis Island (NY)- European

Angel Island (CA)- Asian

Discuss differences. 

200

Supreme Court case that upheld Jim Crow laws

Plessy v. Ferguson

300

Strike at Carnegie's Steel Plant outside of Pittsburgh. Put down by state national guard. 

Homestead Strike (1892)

Discuss

Great Railroad Strike (1877) and Pullman Strike (1894)

-Put down by federal troops, ineffective for bringing about change

400

"Cross of Gold" speech, Democratic nominee 1896

William Jennings Bryan -1896

500

A post-Reconstruction vision promoted by boosters like Henry Grady to modernize the region through industrialization, diversification, and urbanization.

The New South