Period 6 Review (1865 - 1898)

What was the "Crime of '73"?

What innovation(s) allowed for skyscrapers?

What president was assassinated by Charles Guiteau, who claimed to have been cheated out of a government job?

What labor event in 1886 brought about the end of the Knights of Labor?

How many of the presidents between 1860 and 1912 were Democrats?

What terms describe the plan by some southerners to industrialize and "out-Yankee the Yankees"?

What civil service law reformed government hiring after James Garfield's assassination?

Who was named president as a result of the "Compromise of 1877", which ended Reconstruction?

In what combination does a company look to rely on as few others as possible, controlling things "from mine to market"?

What concept was used to justify the accumulation of massive wealth in the Gilded Age?

What protected individual investors by limiting their responsibility to the value of the initial investments?

Created by an 1872 law, what became the first National Park in the U.S.?

Which came first, the Grange or the Alliance?

What civil rights leader called for self-improvement and founded Tuskegee Institute to teach new skills?

When was the Chinese Exclusion Act initially enacted?

What color jobs were open generally to women in the late 1800s?

What group was NOT part of the first wave of immigrants (1840s-1870s)?

What is "Taylorism" better known as?

What Supreme Court ruling upheld Jim Crow laws?

What territorial purchase was known as "Seward's Folly" because the land was thought to be useless?

Who did the American Protective Association discriminate against?

What organization did William "Boss" Tweed lead?

When did the U.S. begin to experience economic panic in Period 6?

What business strategies limited competition?

What preservationist founded the Sierra Club?

Calling for things such as government oversight of railroads, the Omaha Platform came from which party?

What Supreme Court ruling upheld state power to regulate private industry that served the common good?

Who was known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park" because of his various innovations?

Who was the Democratic candidate for president in 1896?

When was the transcontinental railroad completed?

Who massacred several hundred Lakota at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890?

What southern city was known for its significant steel production?

What institution was NOT one of the three pillars of the black community?

What presidential election brought about the end of Reconstruction?

Pushed by Neal Dow as early as 1851, the temperance movement had early support in what state?

Approximately how many immigrants came to the U.S. between 1865 and 1920?

What political reform allowed voters to vote a politician OUT of office?

What brought about the end of the "long drive" of cattle?

With what form of business combination is predatory pricing associated?

Who argued in 1893 that the west was closed to settlement?

A founder of the NAACP, who is better known for investigating and reporting on lynching?

What organization promoted masculine Christianity?

How many acres of land were given under the Homestead Act?

What labor union was open to "all who toiled"?

Who founded Hull House, the famous settlement house in Chicago?

What organization was founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1866?

What was the most popular form of entertainment in the late 19th century?

What is the term for legislation voted on directly by voters instead of the legislature?

What law broke up native reservations into individual land plots to encourage assimilation?

What technological innovation came first, the telegraph or the telephone?