| Thaddeus Stevens | Led the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives |
| A Century of Dishonor | Helen Hunt Jackson's book about the mistreatment of Native Americans |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | He controlled all railroad traffic and out of New York City |
| Social Darwinism | "survival of the fittest" in society |
| Credit Mobilier | The biggest scandal of the Gilded Age |
| George Pullman | Major strike started at his workers' factory led by Eugene V. Debs |
| Birds of Passage | Italian immigrants were considered this due to their seasonal migration pattern |
| Tenure of Office | Act that was used by Congress to weaken the executive branch |
| Edward Bellamy | Wrote "Looking Backward" |
| Railroad | President Hays called out the US Army to shoot strikers in the big event of 1877; the Great ______ (Upheaval) Strike |
| George Eastman | Made photography a hobby for anyone near Rochester, NY |
| Electricity | Major innovation that dominated the progress of the 2nd Industrial Revolution |
| Carpetbaggers | Name given to group of northerners that came South during Reconstruction |
| Inflation | Due to rapid technological innovation in manufacturing and shipping, the macroeconomy went through a long period of ________ |
| Homestead | Biggest strike of the 1890s against Henry Frick's heavy-handed management style |
| Pendleton | _____ Civil Service Act passed due to Garfield's shooting; merit awarded over party loyalty in government jobs on most levels |
| Tariff | The Biggest political issue of the Gilded Age |
| E. C. Knight | US v. ________ pulled the teeth out of the Sherman Anti-trust Act |
| Munn | ________ v. Illinois; temporary victory for the Grange |
| Puritans | Like the ________ of the early 17th Century, the Jews of the New Immigration came as nuclear families |
| Haymarket Square | Ended Terrence V. Powderly's growing labor union |
| Andrew Carnegie | Major advocate of the Gospel of Wealth |
| Exodusters | Great movement of freedmen out of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri to Kansas |
| Silver | William Jennings Bryan was trying to get the government to mint more of this to help the Populists pay their debts |
| Thorstein Veblen | Coined the term "conspicuous consumption" to describe how the nouveau riche flaunted their money |
| Trust | A group of corporations that combine their board of directors for the purpose of collusion |
| Leland Stanford | Best known of the Big Four |
| Montgomery Ward | Along with Sears, Roebuck took advantage of railroad lines to sell products through mail-order catalogues |
| Dawes | This act was supposed to help Native Americans by making them better "farming" Americans just when farming was rapidly declining |
| William Tweed | "Boss" who dominated Tammany Hall |
| Alaska | Seward's Folly |
| Samuel Gompers | Started the AF of L (American Federation of Labor) |
| John Wanamaker | Started the first department store |
| Jane Addams | Associated with the Hull (settlement) House in Chicago |
| Scandinavian | These Europeans filled the Dakota territory during the wet cycle |
| Henry George | Father of the Progressive Movement with his "Progress and Poverty" |
| Frontier | This was officially closed in 1890 by the Department of the Interior |
| Hiram Revels | First African-American US Senator |
| Comstock | Major lode here led to massive migration to Nevada (temporarily) and ended the Panic of 1857 |
| Compromise | The ________ of 1877 took the last of northern troops out of the South |
| Black | ______ Codes replaced the Slave Codes |
| Cholera | Most common death along the Oregon Trail |
| Brigham Young | Took the Mormons to Salt Lake City |
| Levi Strauss | Manufactured heavyweight trousers for gold miners |
| Homestead Act | Provided "Americans" could get title to 160 acres of "public land" for use as a "homestead" to develop agriculture in the West |
| Bozeman Trail | Runs through Montana and through sacred Teton Sioux territory |
| Black Hills | Sacred burial grounds of the Sioux were mined in the 1870s; located in Dakota territory |
| Buffalo | 1874: The last herd of _________ exist in N. Texas |
| Joseph Glidden | Invented barbed wire |
| Dead Man's Hand | Aces and Eights |
| Little Big Horn | Custer's Last Stand |
| Kagama | US v. ________ - Supreme Court defines Native Americans as "wards" under the "protection" of the American government |
| Geronimo | The last of the great chiefs; surrenders and is sent to Florida in 1886 |
| Wounded Knee | Massacre of Indians |
| Burke | ________ Act - designed to speed up Native American assimilation |
| Pacific Railway | ________ ________ Act - aided in the completion of the transcontinental railroad; government gave hand-outs to railroad companies because of this act |
| Immigrants | Union Pacific employed ________ to build their railroads (Mostly Irish and Chinese) |
| Reese | _______ v. US - Supreme Court allows voting qualifications (Literacy test, grandfather clause, etc.) |
| Segregation | Hall v. DeCuir - Supreme Court allows ___________ |
| John D. Rockefeller | This man controlled 90% of the nation's oil refining capacity |
| Coxey | _______ gave us Labor Day because he walked on the grass |
| Robber Barons | Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and William Tweed are examples of _______ _______ |
| Standard | ________ Gauge - The standard width of railroad tracks so certain companies wouldn't hold monopoly over entire tracks of railway |
| Knights of Labor | Lawyers, stockbrokers, gamblers, alcohol peddlers, and bankers could not be a member of Powderly's club, called _________ |
| Patent | A piece of paper that says you have the rights over an invention and no one else has the right to sell it |
| Horizontal | ___________ takes control of surrounding area; vertical builds up (ex. skyscrapers) |
| Deflation | The Great ___________ was caused by the overspeculation of railroad stock and labor strikes |
| Japanese | Largest Asian group to the US; most settled in Hawaii |
| Exclusion | Chinese _________ Act - Kicked the Chinese out of the US |
| Theft | Crime was almost always blamed on immigrants; ________ was most prevalent |