Politics
This invention helped farmers fence in their lands on the lumber-scarce plains.
What is Barbed wire?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of "separate but equal" racial segregation laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This U.S. government act gave 160 acres of land to settlers willing to farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This crop was grown by sharecroppers who planted more due to an invention made in the 1800s.
What is cotton?
This country’s independence from Spain in 1821 increased trade and cultural exchange with the US
Who is Mexico?
This alliance helped farmers express their discontent by forming state and regional groups
What is the farmers’ alliance?
These state and local laws enforced racial segregation in public facilities across the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The economic philosophy that discouraged government intervention in business during this era.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
This area is where the majority of Middle-Class citizens moved to during the 1900s.
What are the suburbs?
This Asian country had the first large migration to the US after the Start of the Gold Rush in 1849.
Who was China?
This mob killed over 1400 people during the 1890s
What was the lynching mobs
This African American leader promoted vocational education and racial accommodation in his 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Farmers blamed these companies for the shipping prices.
What are railroad companies?
The changes the Southern part of the US made after the Civil War
What was the "New South"
Beginning in the 1890’s, the vast majority of immigrants came from these two areas of Europe
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
This person employed a business strategy known as vertical integration Hint: Steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie
This activist co-founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890, helping lead the renewed women’s suffrage movement.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
A major economic downturn, this 1893 event led to mass unemployment and bank failures.
What is the Panic of 1893?
This labor strike led to the owner allowing violent force to subdue employees, leading to the death of 16 of them.
What is the Homestead Strike?
These 2 countries' imports of sugar and rubber accounted for 30% of US imports around 1900.
What are Cuba, Brazil?
This union fought for the goals of higher wages and the eight-hour day
What was the national labor union
This largely female-led movement aimed to curb alcohol consumption and was closely tied to Protestant morality.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This region of the U.S. became the industrial heartland, especially in steel, coal, and shipping.
What is the Midwest?
He was the US colonel in command during the battle of Little Bighorn
Who is Colonel George Custer?
This invention made it possible for messages to be sent overseas
What is the Transatlantic cable?