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This Supreme Court decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." The "separate but equal" doctrine was quickly extended to cover many areas of public life, such as restaurants, theaters, restrooms, and public schools.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
100
This was a period of time marked by enormous growth that attracted millions from Europe. Railroads were the major industry, but the factory system, mining, and labor unions also gained in importance, along with personal greed and corrupt partnership between business and politics.
What is Gilded Age
100
After the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, African Americans continued to experience political and economic oppression mainly because
Jim Crow Laws
100
The objective of this institution was to "kill the Indian and save the man" through instilling Christianity and agrarian values in children while erasing all aspects of their culture.
What is Indian Boarding Schools
100
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In 1882, this Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur, which provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. For the first time, Federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities.
What is Chinese Exclusionary Act
200
These "laws" came to personify the system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States
What are Jim Crow Laws
200
The use of federal troops during strikes were a result of
What is labor unrest in the 1870's and 1880's
200
In 1869, this resulted in massive expansion west and an increase in the conflict with the American Indians due to competition for land and resources.
What was the transcontinental railroad
200
Plains farmers supported bimetallism, which the value of the monetary unit is defined as equivalent both to a certain quantity of gold and to a certain quantity of silver; such a system establishes a fixed rate of exchange between the two metals. The benefit of this system to farmers was:
What is increase of the money supply
200
The deadliest workplace accident in NYC resulted on the importance of regulations to insure safety in the workplace, the creation of the fire prevention division as part of the fire department, and the promotion of unions like the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
What is Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
300
This built on the Monroe Doctrine that the U.S. would expand its influence to become the international police of the Western Hemisphere.
What is Roosevelt Corollary
300
A derogatory term applied to wealthy and powerful 19th century American businessmen. By the late 1800s, the term was typically applied to businessmen who used what were considered to be exploitative practices to amass their wealth. These practices included exerting control over national resources, accruing high levels of government influence, paying extremely low wages, squashing competition by acquiring competitors in order to create monopolies and eventually raise prices, and schemes to sell stock at inflated prices to unsuspecting investors in a manner which would eventually destroy the company for which the stock was issued and impoverish investors.
What is robber baron
300
This settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era. Through the Compromise, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. So it was a win for Northern and Southern Whites.
What was the Compromise of 1877
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The intermittent war between the United States and the Plains Indians that stretched across some three decades after the Civil War came to an end on December 29, 1890, at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota - what was the name of the confrontation which marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians.
What was Wounded Knee.
300
The power to make appointments to government jobs especially for political advantage to reward one's supporters
What is patronage
400
Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph and Geronimo were all leaders of differing tribes which utilized different strategies to obtain these objectives
What is maintain their culture and self reliance through resistance to the federal govt policy of the reservation
400
Wealth of natural resources, government support of business and a growing urban population providing labor and a market for products all contributed to promote what was called:
What is the Gilded Age
400
These men differed regarding the philosophies of the best way African Americans could effectively achieve equality.
Who are Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
400
Approved on February 8, 1887, "An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations," emphasized the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes.
What is Dawes Act (1887)
400
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul, all actively supported
What is women suffrage (right to vote)
500
This policy called for the establishment of equal trading rights to all nations in all parts of China and for recognition of Chinese territorial integrity (meaning that the country should not be carved up).
What is Open Door Policy
500
"The man of wealth must become a trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer. Those who would administer wisely must indeed be wise. For one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity." which meant wealthy people have an obligation and are best qualified to organize charity which gives the poor a "hand up not a hand out" was from what writing... and by who?
What was The Gospel of Wealth, Andrew Carnegie
500
Name the war which was fought between the Union and the Confederates (there were NO protests against the war, instead it divided the nation... friends and family) once the war was won the nation proceeded to a process called Reconstruction.
What was the Civil War
500
According to this theory, which was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the weak were diminished, while the strong grew in power and in cultural influence over the weak. It was believed that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by “survival of the fittest,” a phrase proposed by the British philosopher and scientist Herbert Spencer.
What is social darwinism
500
This era / movement was an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century. The frontier had been tamed, great cities and businesses developed, and an overseas empire established, but not all citizens shared in the new wealth, prestige, and optimism.
What is the progressive movement