Monopolies
When one person or company owns all of the businesses for a given good or service in a given area
What is a monopoly?
These places saw native americans suffer great abuses by their teachers and staff
What were native american boarding schools?
This person owned over 90% of the Oil in the United States
Who was John Rockefeller?
This organization fought for the rights of black people
What was the NAACP?
This amendment allowed for direct election of senators
What was the 17th amendment?
A monopoly where the owner has total control of the entire supply chain for a given good in a given area
What are Vertical Monopolies?
This act caused the reservations to be broken up into individual plots of land
What was the Dawes Act?
This problem of society ultimately lead to the introduction of school
What was child labor?
This movement saw women gaining the right to vote
What was women's suffrage?
This amendment allowed the United States to levy income taxes
What was the 16th amendment?
A monopoly where the owner has total control of a single step of the supply chain for a given good in a given area
What is a horizontal monopoly?
This event saw Native Americans be massacred by the United States Army
What was the wounded knee massacre?
This famous strike involved the pinkerton detective agency opening fire on union strikers
What was the Homestead Strike?
What was the school movement?
This amendment banned alcohol in the United States
What was the 18th amendment?
This act made it illegal to own a monopoly or conspire to limit competition
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This event took place prior to the Gilded Age and caused Natives to be forcibly removed from their land to Oklahoma
What was the Trail of Tears?
This problem of society ultimately lead to the temperance movement
These women protested in front of the Whitehouse silently for over a year
Who were the silent sentinels?
This amendment allowed women the right to vote
What was the 19th amendment?
This monopoly was run by John Rockefeller
What is Standard Oil?
This was the overall goal of the United States towards native americans after the Gilded Age
This individual was able to completely control the political scene in New York and used it to gain immense amounts of wealth for himself and his cronies
Who was Boss Tweed?
This president was instrumental in the progressive era reforms
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
DAILY DOUBLE:
These two eras in American history are related to one another through a problem -> solution relationship
What is the Gilded Age and Progressive Era?