People
Founder of US Steel, used Bessemer process to make cheaper steel
Andrew Carnegie
Term for movement of people into cities
Urbanization
Amendment banning slavery in the United States
13th
Name for large apartment buildings with low quality living conditions, mostly in cities
Dumbbell Tenements
One challenge faced by Homesteaders during the late 1800s
Weather, Disease, No Protection, Locusts, Limited Supplies
Founder of Standard Oil Company, controlled 90% of oil production by 1900
John Rockefeller
Tax on foreign trade
Tariff
Organization that emerged in the South following the Civil War. Used violence and intimidation to threaten African Americans and Republican voters
KKK
Labor strike at the McCormick plant in Chicago, resulted in the death of at least 8 workers
Haymarket Affair
1862 Government program giving western lands to settlers essentially for free
Homestead Act
President during the majority of Reconstruction, gave southern states significant control
Andrew Johnson
A 'hands off' approach to government, allowing the economy to operate on its own
Amendment allowing African American men the right to vote
15th
Political group/party opposed to immigration during the late 19th century
Nativist Party
Most serious of the Native American conflicts, tribe led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
Sioux Wars
Advocate for immigrants and womens' suffrage. Operated the Hull House in Chicago
Jane Addams
Giving politial jobs or positions to supporters
Patronage
14th
Democratic political machine that controlled New York during the late 19th century
Tammany Hall
Government program offering land sales to individual people within a Native community, rather than to the tribe itself
Dawes Act
Photographer who exposed living conditions in New York's slums
Jacob Riis
Controlling all phases of production and distribution in a business process
Vertical Integration
Agreement reached during the Election of 1876/77 to resolve the tie...
Five presidents of the Gilded Age (100 points per)
Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison
This simple invention helped ranchers set property lines and forced cowboys into alternative lines of work
Barbed Wire