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Godfrey: Grant-Cleve
Godfrey: Grant-Cleveland
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gave settlers 160 acres of land out west, as long as they farmed it for five consecutive years | Homestead Act |
| Main workers on the transcontinental railroad | Irish and Chinese |
| Point where the Union and Pacific Railroads meet | Promontory Point, Utah |
| Battle where George Custer took his last stand and was killed by Native Americans | Battle of Little Bighorn |
| Indian leaders at the Battle of Little Bighorn | Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull |
| Leader of the Nez Perce Indians; "I will fight no more forever" | Chief Joseph |
| Book written by Helen Hunt Jackson condemning US treatment of Native Americans | Century of Dishonor |
| American policy of making the Native American more like whites | Assimilation |
| Gave Native Americans 160 acres of land to farm; form of assimilation | Dawes Act |
| Last of the major battles in the Indian Wars | Wounded Knee |
| Major cattle drive trail in the West | Chisholm Trail |
| Stopped the open range in the West | Barbed Wire |
| Silver mined in Nevada | Comstock Lode |
| Abandoned mining town | Ghostown |
| Stories of adventure and success | Dime novels |
| Giving land to states to found agricultural colleges | Morrill Land Grants |
| Frontier home | Soddie |
| The idea that the West shaped American character and that the time of the frontier in America had officially ended | Frederick Jackson Turner's Thesis |
| Political party made up of farmers who supported bimetallism | Populists |
| Federal law regulating the railroad | Interstate Commerce Act |
| Political platform of the populist movement, including increasing the money supply and a progressive income tax | Omaha Platform |
| Election in which William McKinley defeated William Jennings Bryan | Election of 1896 |
| Democratic/Populist candidate in Election of 1896; delivered Cross of Gold Speech | William Jennings Bryan |
| Inventor of the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Inventor of the lightbulb | Thomas Edison |
| Process for the mass production of steel | Bessemer Process |
| Leader of the Standard Oil Company; used horizontal integration and trusts to gain power | John Rockefeller |
| Leader of the steel industry; used vertical integration to gain power; believed in the Gospel of Wealth | Andrew Carnegie |
| Leader of the banking industry | JP Morgan |
| Leader of the Railroad Industry | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| Towns owned by the business owner; harsh regulations for employees | Company Towns |
| The theory that the best businesses survive and thrive | Social Darwinism |
| The idea that big business owners should be free to make as much money as they like as long as they give back to society | Gospel of Wealth |
| Famous dime novelist; wrote about the American Dream | Horatio Alger |
| When a business owns all or most of the supply of a product | Monopoly |
| When several businesses act as one under the control of a board of directors | Trust |
| Type of monopoly formed by controlling all of the same type of business | Horizontal Integration |
| Monopoly formed by controlling businesses related to the primary business | Vertical Integration |
| Practice of giving away large sums of money to charity | Philanthropy |
| Weak law that sought to regulate trusts; failed | Sherman Anti-trust Law |
| Labor union methods where members stop working | Strike |
| Labor union method where union members and boss negotiate terms | Collective Bergaining |
| An outside source decides the winner in a case or decision | Arbitration |
| Refusing to hire a labor union member | Blacklist |
| Refusing to allow labor union members to come to work | Lockout |
| Replacment workers for those on strike | Scabs |
| Government demand to stop a strike | Injunction |
| One of the first labor unions; accepted all types of workers, skilled and unskilled, blacks and white, male and female; refused to use strikes; led by Terrence Powderly | Knights of Labor |
| Protest that turned public opinion against labor unions when a bomb went off | Haymarket Square Riot |
| Labor union accepting only skilled, white, males and founded by Samuel Gompers; makes the strike famous | America Federation of Labor (AFL) |
| Leader of the Industrial Labor Union movement and a later Socialist candidate for President | Eugene Debs |
| Strike where the government must stop in when the strike interfers with the delivery of the US mail; Eugene Debs is jailed | Pullman Coach Strike |
| Infamous incident at a factory in New York leading to the desire for more government regulations on workplace safety | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
| Influx of Southern and Eastern Europeans and Asian immigrants into the US in the late 1800s | New Immigration |
| Main port for European immigrants in the United States | Ellis Island |
| The idea that American culture is a mix of various other cultures | Melting Pot |
| Favoring Native born Americans over immigrants | Nativism |
| Banning the immigration of Chinese to the US for 10 years | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| Poor houses in urban areas, usually holding multiple families | Tenements |
| Christian idea of helping the less fortunate | Social Gospel Movement |
| Wrote "How the Other Half Lives"; Part of social gospel movement | Jacob Riis |
| Founded Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago that sought to help the immigrants in the inner cities | Jane Addams |
| Time period in which America looked content on the outside but was filled with corruption and bribery within | Gilded Age |
| One party that dominates the politics in an area, usually through corruption | Political Machine |
| The most famous political machine; located in NYC | Tweed Ring/Tammany Hall |
| Cartoonist who brought down Boss Tweed | Thomas Nast |
| Railroad scandal involving President Grant | Credit Mobilier |
| President killed because he passed a former supporter over for a job | James Garfield |
| Act that replaces the spoils system with the merit system | Pendleton Civil Service Act |
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