Industrialization /City Life
The rise of monopolies and large business corporations encouraged the federal government to establish what policies?
What are antitrust laws/Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
What two companies worked on the Transcontinental railroad?
What are the Union and Central pacific?
What two inventions led to the transportation of information and goods throughout the United States faster than ever before?
What is the transcontinental railroad and the telephone?
What prominent New York political boss was arrested for fraud in 1871?
Who is Boss Tweed?
The reliance on factories brought union organizations to light, and foreshadowed what upcoming era in the 1900s?
What is the Progressive Era?
Where did the two companies meet to connect the rails?
What is Promontory Summit, Utah?
What were the results of westward expansion on Native Americans?
The Dawes Act negatively impacted Native American tribes as they were displaced from their tribal lands.
What progressive woman helped the urban poor by opening community centers, including the Hull House?
Who is Jane Addams?
Who monopolized the oil industry in America and inspired Ida Tarbell to write about the evident corruption within the system?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Who was the largest group that worked on the TCRR due to shortage of labor?
Who are Chinese immigrants?
What groups helped reform the workplace by striking to help give workers rights and fair conditions?
Who are the Knights of labor and the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
The depression of the 1870s led to an increased demand of what?
What is more printed money?
What influenced political elections throughout the end of the 1800s and were headed by a small group and relied on immigrants?
What are political machines?
Railroad workers killed many buffalo which hurt what population of people?
Who were Native Americans?
What change did the 1876 election between Hayes and Tilden lead to in the South?
End of Reconstruction/Compromise of 1876
This bold financier almost successfully cornered the gold market in 1869?
Who is James Fisk?
Who contributed heavily to the advancement of transportation as a result of their work with the steel industry?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What American idea did the Transcontinental Railroad help fulfill?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What movement was used to support racial segregation with claims of scientific support?
What is the Eugenics Movement?
This was Grant’s greatest failure in each scandal that overtook his administration
What is his toleration for corruption?