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| 2663167162 | Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) | Prohibited entry to all Chinese people except teachers, students, merchants, tourists, and officials. This was the first significant restriction on immigration. | 0 | |
| 2663167163 | Dawes Severalty Act | An important tool in the "civilizing" effort of 1887. It's objective was to make the Indians into self-sufficient, property-conscious, profit-oriented, individual farmers. Individual ownership of land by Native Americans. | 1 | |
| 2663167164 | Homestead Act of 1862 | Was supposed to make it easier for poor families to acquire farms, thereby ending the reign of the speculator and the large landholder. | 2 | |
| 2663167165 | Pacific Railway Act of 1862 | It gave the builders of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads five square miles of public land on each side of their right-of-way for each mile of track laid. | 3 | |
| 2663167166 | What impact did barbed wire have on open range ranching? | Barbed wire prevented the free movement of cattle. During winter storms the drifting cattle piled up against them and died by the thousands. Ranges were overgrazed. Cattle crowed into low places only to be engulfed in giant snow drifts. | 4 | |
| 2663167167 | Which two railroads were connected in 1869 to create the country's first transcontinental railroad? | Central Pacific /Union Pacific. | 5 | |
| 2663167168 | Cattle drives | Last about 20 years, moves cows from A to B cattle drives die because of railroads. | 6 | |
| 2663167169 | Cattlemen associations | leading ranchers banded together to deal with overcrowding, water rights and thievery. | 7 | |
| 2663167170 | Cornelius Commodore Vanderbilt | He joined the New York central with western railroads to further connect the country. He offered superior railroad service at a lower rate. | 8 | |
| 2663167171 | Bessemer Process | Process of removing the impurities and turning iron into steel. | 9 | |
| 2663167172 | Pennsylvania oil | first oil well discovered by Edwin L. Drake in 1859. | 10 | |
| 2663167173 | Morganizations | The major railroads became consolidated under a few giant corporations led by financiers. | 11 | |
| 2663167174 | American Federation of Labor | A combination of national and craft unions established in 1886 by Samuel Gompers. | 12 | |
| 2663167175 | What led to the creation of big corporations and monopolies, and why were the robber barons that ruled them able to thrive during the late nineteenth century? | Natural resources, Expanding population, New inventions, Railroads; "Laissez- faire" ("let it be"); Darwinism: Natural selection/survival of the fittest. Big corporations "ate" the smaller ones. | 13 | |
| 2663167176 | Trusts | Exercise general supervision over all the properties. | 14 | |
| 2663167177 | Department stores | Multiple products sold under one roof. | 15 | |
| 2663167178 | Laissez faire | Let it be | 16 | |
| 2663167179 | Darwinism | Survival of the fittest | 17 | |
| 2663167180 | Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" | He believed that it was the rich peoples responsibility to take care of the poor. | 18 | |
| 2663167181 | "Looking Backward" | Utopian novel written by Edward Bellamy in 1888 in which he described a future America that was completely socialized. | 19 | |
| 2663167182 | National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry | Founded in 1867 to support small farmers | 20 | |
| 2663167183 | Wabash Case | The supreme court ruled in 1886 that individual states had no power to regulate interstate commerce. | 21 | |
| 2663167184 | Interstate Commerce Commission | The first large scale attempt by Washington in 1887 to regulate business in the interest of society at large. | 22 | |
| 2663167185 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act | Made trusts illegal in 1890. | 23 | |
| 2663167186 | Knights of Labor | Founded in 1869, one of Americas first unions, they welcomed everybody. They fought for the 8-hour work day. | 24 | |
| 2663167187 | Haymarket Square Riot | A 1886 incident that made unions, particularly the Knights of Labor, look violent because a bomb exploded during a protest of striking workers. | 25 | |
| 2663167188 | Comstock Lode | Yielded ores worth nearly $4,000 a ton. During the administration of President Grant, Virginia City, Nevada, was at the peak of its vulgar prosperity, producing an average of $12 million a year in ore. The first major vein of silver ore in the US. | 26 | |
| 2663167189 | End of the cowboy era | Winter of 1886, demand for beef dropped at the end of civil war. | 27 | |
| 2663167190 | Great R/R strike | Strike in 1877 where the presidents of the nations four largest railroads collectively decided to cut employees wages ten percent. | 28 | |
| 2663167191 | Thomas Edison | Light bulb 1879 | 29 | |
| 2663167192 | Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone | 30 | |
| 2663167193 | American Ambivalence | America believed strongly in a government policy of noninterference. | 31 | |
| 2675459507 | Pullman Strike | Strike in1894 protesting a 23 percent wage cut, Eugene Debs, of the American railway union. Led 125,000 railroad workers on 29 railroads on strike. | 32 | |
| 2675459508 | "The Gilded Age" | A novel written by Mark Twain in 1873 which satirized greed and political corruption in the post civil war America. While cities appeared to be rich and successful, underneath there was a lot of corruption, poverty and crime. | 33 | |
| 2675459509 | Middle Class Life | $1000 a year; was defined in terms of tangible goods. | 34 | |
| 2675459510 | "The Theory of the Leisure Class" | book written by Thorstein Veblen describing the middle-class life. | 35 | |
| 2675459511 | Working women | telephone "hello girls"; typewriter. Women made up the overwhelming majority of sales clerks and office workers. | 36 | |
| 2675459512 | Public Education | Attendance in the public schools increased from 6.8 million in 1870s to 15.5 million in 1900. | 37 | |
| 2675459513 | Nativism | favoring born in the US compared to foreign born. | 38 | |
| 2675459514 | Vertical Integration | Controls all of the stages production. | 39 | |
| 2675459515 | Horizontal Integration | Company controls one stage of production. | 40 | |
| 2675459516 | "Pull" to America | Jobs, cheap land, religious freedom. | 41 | |
| 2675459517 | "Push" from Europe | Military conscription, religious persecution, political persecution. | 42 | |
| 2675459518 | Wave the bloody shirt | republican campaign tactic that blamed the democrats for the civil war; it was used successfully in campaigns from 1868 to 1876 to keep democrats out of public office, especially the presidency. | 43 | |
| 2675459519 | New Immigration | one in fifty immigrants where returned to Europe, many settled in Ney York, Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit. | 44 | |
| 2675459520 | Why did humorist and author, Mark Twain label late nineteenth century urban America as the "Gilded Age?" | Because everything looked good from the outside, but once in the country, immigrants would see how bad life was. Immigrants would see things like the Electronic trolleys, the Brooklyn Bridge, sky scrapers, electric elevators, Coney Island and think they could achieve the same things. | 45 | |
| 2675459521 | Pragmatism | Stated that all truths are constantly evolving and can be judged only by their concrete results. | 46 | |
| 2675459522 | Realism | The new literary style of the 1870s and 1880s which often examined social problems such as slum conditions and portrayed people of every social class was. | 47 | |
| 2675459523 | Birth control | Considered pornographic. | 48 | |
| 2675459524 | Working Class | There was considerable dissatisfaction among industrial workers. | 49 | |
| 2675459525 | Gibson girl | A magazine of an independent and athletic "new woman" created in the 1890s by artist Charles Dana Gibson. | 50 | |
| 2675459526 | American Protective Association | Created in 1887, they voted against Roman Catholic candidates. | 51 | |
| 2675459527 | Jacob A Riis | Danish immigrant who wrote "How the Other Half Lives" in 1890. | 52 | |
| 2675459528 | City bosses | The party bosses who ran their political machines got rich off of graft and corruption. | 53 | |
| 2675459529 | Electric Trolley Cars | Invented by Frank J. Sprague in 1887. Allowed the city to expand and be segregated by race, ethnicity and social class. | 54 | |
| 2675459530 | Chicago World's Fair | Built on lake Michigan in 1893. | 55 | |
| 2675459531 | Vaudeville and Burlesque | Appeared in the early 1880s as a hodgepodge of animal acts, acrobats, strippers, comedians. | 56 | |
| 2675459532 | Coney Island | First amusement park. | 57 | |
| 2675478550 | Social Gospel | Taught religion and human dignity would help the middle class over come problems of industrialization; emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation | 58 | |
| 2675478551 | Social Darwinism | A belief that Charles Darwin's theory of the evolution of species also applied to social and economic institutions and practices. | 59 | |
| 2675550041 | Settlement Houses | The community centers started by idealistic young female college graduates to guide and help the urban poor people. | 60 | |
| 2675550042 | Jane Addams | Founder of the Chicago Hull House in 1889. | 61 | |
| 2675550043 | Progressive Education | Emphasis on the "three R's", strict discipline and rote memorization. | 62 | |
| 2675550044 | "The Origins of Species" | Highly controversial book written by Charles Darwin in 1859. | 63 | |
| 2675550045 | Frederick Jackson Turner | "The Significance of the American Frontier in American Society", 1893 | 64 | |
| 2675550046 | Mark Twain | "Huckleberry Finn", 1884 | 65 | |
| 2675550047 | Thomas Eakins | "The Gross Clinic", 1875 | 66 | |
| 2675550048 | William James | "The Principles of Psychology", 1890 | 67 | |
| 2675550049 | Morrill Land Grant Acts | 1862, Provided land for colleges, Texas A & M | 68 | |
| 2675550050 | Leisure Time | Bars, Vaudeville and Burlesque, Coney Island, Professional sports. | 69 | |
| 2675550051 | Describe how the federal government systematically subjugated the American Plains Indians during the 1800s | by killing all the buffalo. | 70 | |
| 2682642527 | Mugwumps | Members mainly educated and upper class, reforms crusaded for lower tariffs, limited federal govt. & civil service reform to end political corruption, best known for role in helping elect Grover Cleveland to presidency in 1884. | 71 | |
| 2682642528 | Pendleton Act | Passed by Congress in 1883, created bipartisan Civil Service Commission to administer competitive exams to candidates for civil service jobs & to appoint officeholders based on merit, outlawed forcing political contributions from appointed officials. | 72 | |
| 2682642529 | People's party | political party organized in 1892 mainly by the Farmers' Alliance, offered broad based reform platform reflecting Ocala demands, After 1896, became identified as 1 issue party focused on free silver & gradually died away. | 73 | |
| 2682642530 | Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court case in 1896, Established doctrine of separate but equal, upheld LA law requiring blacks & whites occupy separate rail cars. | 74 | |
| 2682642531 | Sherman Silver Purchase Act | Attempted to resolve controversy over silver coinage, Under US Treasury would purchase 4.5 million oz silver each month & issue legal tender for it. | 75 | |
| 2682642532 | Civil Rights Cases | Group of cases in 1883 in which Supreme Court ruled that 14th Amendment barred state governments from discriminating on basis of race but didn't prevent private individuals/organizations from doing so. | 76 | |
| 2682642533 | President Cleveland | democrat returns to the White House, served two non consecutive terms. | 77 | |
| 2682642534 | Jim Crow laws | Laws enacted by states to segregate population. | 78 | |
| 2682642535 | Booker T. Washington | Tuskegee Institute | 79 |
