Even More Agriculture
Invention that ended the romantic age of the Cowboy
What is The Bardbed Wire
This invention allowed people to communicate verbally over long distances for the first time.
What was the telephone?
This act gave settlers 160 acres of land if they improved it for five years.
What was the Homestead Act?
These laws created legal racial segregation in public spaces after Reconstruction ended
What were Jim Crow laws?
This business practice meant controlling every step of production, from raw materials to selling the product.
What is vertical integration?
Mechanism that led to the doubling the production of corn
The Reapers
This inventor improved the light bulb and helped create systems for electrical power distribution.
Who was Thomas Edison?
This law broke up tribal land into individual plots to encourage Native Americans to assimilate
What was the Dawes Act?
This system allowed landowners to provide land and supplies to workers, who repaid with a share of the crops, often trapping them in debt.
What was sharecropping?
This oil company controlled nearly 90% of U.S. oil refining by using horizontal integration
What was Standard Oil?
The Homestead Act of 1862 scammed the American population by allowing only a Certain percentage to own land
20%
This inventor patented the telephone in 1876 and later faced legal battles over who actually invented it first
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
This 1890 conflict marked the end of major armed Native American resistance in the Plains.
DAILY DOUBLE
What was the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This leader believed Black Americans should focus on economic self-improvement instead of immediate political equality.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
This law was created to stop monopolies but was originally used more against labor unions than corporations.
DAILY TRIPLE
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This presidential candidate made the famous “Cross of Gold” speech supporting inflation through free silver.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
This railroad system completed in 1869 connected the East and West coasts and boosted trade and communication.
What was the First Transcontinental Railroad?
This historian argued that the frontier shaped American democracy and said it was “closed” in 1890.
Who was Frederick Jackson Turner?
This activist criticized accommodation and pushed for full civil rights and higher education for Black Americans.
Who was W. E. B. Du Bois?
This 1896 Supreme Court case allowed segregation if facilities were considered “separate but equal.”
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This labor organization included both skilled and unskilled workers and grew rapidly before declining after the Haymarket affair.
What were the Knights of Labor?
The expansion of this technology allowed news, business information, and advertising to spread quickly across the country in the late 1800s.
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What was the telegraph and later expanded communication networks?
The federal government used this system to move Native Americans onto specific land areas and open territory for settlers
What was the reservation system?
These voting restrictions were used in the South to prevent Black citizens from voting without explicitly mentioning race.
What were literacy tests and poll taxes?
This social theory justified extreme inequality by claiming that business success proved superiority.
What is Social Darwinism?