Civil Rights Leaders
This leader promoted vocational education and gradual equality.
Booker T. Washington
This act gave settlers free land for farming.
Homestead Act
Government lands where Native Americans were forced to live.
Reservations
A business owned by investors who buy stock
Corporation
Workers formed these groups to improve conditions.
Unions
This leader demanded immediate equality and helped found the NAACP.
W.E.B DuBois
Law that promoted railroad construction across the U.S.
Pacific Railroad Act
Policy of forcing minority groups to adopt dominant culture.
Assimilation
This law was created to limit monopolies
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
AFL (American Federation of Labor)
Washington founded this Alabama school focused on industrial training.
Tuskegee Institute
Name one effect of railroads on western expansion.
Faster settlement, trade growth, destruction of Native lands, etc.
Native children were often sent here to erase their culture.
Boarding Schools/Carlisle School
Define laissez faire
Economic idea that government should not regulate business.
Define collective bargaining
Negotiating as a group with employers for wages, better working conditions and/or benefits
What was the name of the speech Booker T. Washington gave that advocated for vocational training?
This system broke Native land into individual plots.
Dawes Act
What was the significance of the buffalo to Native Americans?
It held both spiritual and physical meaning to Native Americans.
Monopoly = Single company controls industry; trust = group of companies controlled by one board.
What was the issue with bimetallism?
It could cause inflation and economic instability