People
Name for people who migrated to Kansas that is an allusion to the Bible.
Who are Exodusters?
Location of the political machine known as Tammany Hall that was run by Boss Tweed.
What is New York City?
Promised 160 acres of public land for a small fee to anyone willing to work the land for five consecutive years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Forced American Indians to assimilate to American culture by subdividing tribal lands into single family plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
People who provided the skill, muscle, and time that enabled American prosperity during the Gilded Age.
Who are the working class?
The fight between cattle ranchers and farmers who began to portion off western territory with barbed wire.
What are the Range Wars of Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming?
Technical advancement that involved blowing air through molten iron to remove impurities.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Political party that attempted to enact laws that supported rural agricultural communities by creating a silver standard, sub-treasury system, and public railroads.
What is the Populist (or People's) Party?
Called for joining together as many firms from the same industry as possible.
What is horizontal integration?
Industry owner whose steel employees went on strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1892.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
A long drive where cowboys herded longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
Outlawed trusts, monopolies, and other forms of business that restricted trade.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The market will regulate itself through supply and demand if the government did not iterfere.
What is laissez-faire policy?
Involved taking control of each step in the production and distribution of a product.
What is vertical integration?
Owned 90% of the United States oil industry during the Gilded Age.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This fuel for the industrial revolution was mined in places like Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
What is coal?
Took place in Chicago, Illinois in 1886 when striking workers fought scabs brought to replace them.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
The belief that some people and "businesses" are inherently more capable of survival and prosperity.
What is Social Darwinism?
Companies that are recognized by law as existing independently from their owners.
What are corporations?
This American investor once bailed out the United States government to prevent it from going bankrupt.
Who is J. P. Morgan?
Location of the Golden Spike that connected the eastern and western branches of the transcontinental railroad.
What is Promontory, Utah?
The response to the Pullman Rail Car Company cutting wages by 25% in 1894.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This new form of communication was usually found running parallel to railroad lines.
What is the telegraph?
When a company has virtually total control of a single industry or market.
What is a monopoly?