Set: APUSH - Reconstruction to the end of the 19th Century

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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

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Creator idkmaibffrach
Created February 12, 2008
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Tags us, united, states, second, revolution, reconstruction, industrial, history, ap, adler, 2nd
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  1. Homestead → Biggest strike of the 1890s against Henry Frick's heavy-handed management style - 6 misses
  2. Thorstein Veblen → Coined the term "conspicuous consumption" to describe how the nouveau riche flaunted their money - 6 misses
  3. Burke → ________ Act - designed to speed up Native American assimilation - 6 misses
  4. Inflation → Due to rapid technological innovation in manufacturing and shipping, the macroeconomy went through a long period of ________ - 4 misses
  5. Henry George → Father of the Progressive Movement with his "Progress and Poverty" - 4 misses
  6. Kagama → US v. ________ - Supreme Court defines Native Americans as "wards" under the "protection" of the American government - 4 misses
  7. Cornelius Vanderbilt → He controlled all railroad traffic and out of New York City - 3 misses