Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Industrialization m
industrialization time period terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Haymarket Bombing | McKormick Harvester Companyin chicago, a strike was in progress, police ordered crowd to disperse and someone through a bomb |
| National Grange | Farmers began to join the grange which started out as a social gathering and became economic advancements and eventually a political movement |
| Homestead Plant Strike | workers of a plant go on strike after wages are repeadedly cut. workers lost and were escourted out of town |
| Pullman strike | pullman company slashed wages by 25 percent and at the same time made rent higher so the workers went on strike |
| Women's trade union league founded | women responed to the exclusion of unskilled workers by forming this union |
| McKinely Tariff | highest protective measure proposed to congress, hurting the republican party. many thoguht it would only raise money for the government |
| The Dawes Severalty Act | provided for the gradual elimination of tribal ownership of land and the allotment of tracts to individual owners |
| The American Federation of LaBour | most important and enduring labor force in the country. made up of independent craft unions. hostile to organizing unskilled workers |
| Chinese exclusion act | banned chinese immigration into u.s. for ten years and barred chinese already in country from citizenship |
| United States Steel Corporation founded | there were steel corporations founded in America by 1873 and people didn't like it and rebelled and such |
| Immigration Restriction League Founded | founded in boston by harvard alumni, dedicated to the believe that immigrants should be screened through literacy tests and other standards to seperate the desirable from the undesirable |
| Burke Act | congress attempted to speed the transition of disturbing reservation land to individual owners |
| Homestead Act | the gov. gave land in the west to farmers who paid a small fee and would farm the land |
| Sherman and Purchase Act repealed | President Cleaveland repealed the act, aligning the west and southern democrats against him |
| Shirman Antitrust Act | was an attempt to restrain competition with corporations. was seen as largely symbolic and had no actual impact |
| Interstate commerce act | banning discrimination in rates with different sized hauls and "all railroads must be reasonable and just" |
| Frederick Jackson proposes "Fronteir Thesis" | Argues that the process of westward expansion had transformed a desolate and savage land into modern civilization |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | In Montana, Indian leaders, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull with 2,500 warriors attacked George A. Custer and 264 men, killing all of them |
| Battle of Wounded knee | the seventh cavalry tried to round up a group of Souix at wounded knee, South dakota and fighting broke out |
| 14th ammendment ratified | official definition of citizenship, everyone born in the u.s.and naturalized were citizens 1866 |
| 15th ammendment ratified | forbade states from denying suffrage because of race, giving ex slaves voting rights. 1870 |
| American Protective Association founded | henry bowers,obsessed with a hatred of catholics and forgeiners founded the apa, a group commited to stopping the immigrant trade |
| Union Pacific Complete | 1862-1869 two seperate railroad companies finished a railroad going from Omaha to Sacramento meeting in Whyoming |
| Sherman Silver Purchase Act | required gov. to purchase silver and pay for it in gold, this weakened gold reserves |
| Gold Standard Act | Republicans enacted which assigned a specific gold value to the dollar and required that all new currency meet that standard |
| Pendleton Act | act requiring some federal jobs to be filled by written examinations rather than patronage |
Created by:
toomuchhomework5
Popular U.S. History sets