Industrialization & Capitalism
This invention revolutionized electric lighting in American cities
What is the incandescent lightbulb?
This 1869 event symbolized the completion of U.S. coast-to-coast railway connection
What is the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Point?
This innovation allowed cities to build upward rather than outward
What is the steel-framed skyscraper?
This 1862 law offered land to those who would farm it for five years
What is the Homestead Act?
This 1896 Supreme Court case justified racial segregation
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This steelmaking process enabled mass production and was used by Carnegie
What is the Bessemer process?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This 1876 battle saw the defeat of U.S. forces by Sioux warriors
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This type of store emerged as a symbol of consumer culture during this time
What is the department store?
This 1890 meeting proposed direct election of senators and silver coinage
What is the Ocala Platform?
This educator promoted vocational training for Black Americans
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This financial strategy inflated stock value before selling to the public
What is stock watering?
This 1887 law aimed to assimilate Native Americans through land allotment
What is the Dawes Act?
These two companies dominated the mail-order industry
What are Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward?
This Supreme Court case upheld the regulation of public businesses like railroads
What is Munn v. Illinois?
This Black journalist campaigned against lynching
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This financier gained control of bankrupt railroads and formed interlocking directorates
Who is J.P. Morgan?
This movement did Plains tribes believe would restore their way of life
What is the Ghost Dance movement?
This bridge, completed in 1883, symbolized American engineering progress
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This organization began as a social group but became politically active
What is the National Grange?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This system kept farmers in debt by exchanging labor for a share of crops
What is sharecropping?
This was the name of Edison’s pioneering research facility?
What is Menlo Park?
This 1890 massacre marked the end of Native armed resistance
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This term refers to corruption and material excess in politics and business
What is the Gilded Age?
This economic practice led to lower crop prices and more debt for farmers
What is deflation?
This speech promoted racial cooperation and economic advancement without social equality
What is the Atlanta Compromise?