| 1880 - 1890'squestions |
1880 - 1890's answers |
| What is the AFL | American Federation of Labor |
| When was AFL founded | 1881 |
| Who founded AFL | Samuel Gompers |
| When was Tuskegee Institute founded | 1881 |
| Who founded Tuskegee Institute | Booker T. Washington |
| John D. Rockefeller | Big Business man, formed Standard Oil Trust, a 95% monopoly |
| When was Standard Oil Trust formed | 1882 |
| When did the immigration shift occur | 1885 |
| Where did the immigrants come from during the shift | Eastern and Southern Europe |
| When was the Dawes Act passed | 1887 |
| What was the Dawes Act | Gave each Native American Family 160 acres - thus dividing tribal lands and forcing Indian farming. It was an attempt to assimilate the Indians into American Society and the ending of the Indian way of life |
| When did The Bureau of the Census declare the end of the frontier; there is no longer free land, since the United States now has at least two people per square mile | 1890 |
| When and who invented the telephone | 1892, Alexander Graham Bell, a teacher of the deaf |
| When was Separate but equal declared constitutional | 1896 |
| What was Plessy V Ferguson | Plessy was a 30 year old shoemaker who was jailed for sitting in the "white" car of the train. The case went all the way to the Supreme court but Plessy lost his case, and seperate but equal was declared constitutional and segregration was permitted |
| When was the Battleship Maine sunk | Feb 1898 |
| When did the Spanish American War begin | April 1898 |
| What countries did US recieve as a result of the Spanish American War | Guam, Phillipines, and Puerto Rico |
