The population influx to California in response to the discovery of gold.
A new industry of department stores emerged in the second half of the 19th century.
An act opening up millions of acres of land to settlement.
A name given to the western portion of the Great Plains.
The movement of large herds of cattle from the ranches to the railheads.
A fraternal organization formed to increase the well-being of farmers and their families.
The pro-government party of the Gilded Age.
The small government party of the Gilded Age.
A railroad investor and speculator.
The 18th president of the United States.
The first railroad line to connect the west and east coasts of the United States.
The world’s first and largest multinational corporation.
An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and the government does not interfere in the transactions between private parties.
The expansive territory west of the Mississippi River but east of the Rocky Mountains.
A leading industrialist of the late 19th century.
An act ending the official recognition of Native American tribes as independent nations.
The first national park.
An American author and humorist.
Global financial panic resulting from over speculation, trade deficit, and the aftermath of the Civil War and Franco-Prussian War.
A type of wire that can be used as inexpensive fencing.
Throughout the end of the 19th century, the women’s suffrage movement gained momentum.
Inventor of the telephone.
A leading United States Army officer in the Indian Wars.
A Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the government did have the power to regulate private industries.
The 19th president of the United States.
Local and state laws passed in the South to institutionalize segregation between whites and blacks.
A massive and extensive strike of railroad workers.
A Protestant movement calling for Christians to actively work against social injustices like poverty, alcoholism, slums, racial discrimination, and child labor.
Thomas Edison’s research center, considered the first industrial research laboratory.
American cities grew at a dramatic rate at the end of the 19th century.
The 20th president of the United States.
A book chronicling the government’s mistreatment of Native Americans.
A historically black university established by Booker T. Washington and Lewis Adams.
The 21st president of the United States.
Act that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers.
A law that established that federal positions be awarded based on merit rather than political affiliation.
A series of cases in which the Supreme Court determined that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional.
The 22nd president of the United States.
The largest and most significant labor organization of the 1880s.
A law banning immigrants from entering the United States under a labor contract.
A bombing at a labor rally in Chicago that left eleven dead and many others injured.
The process of a group of employees and a group of employers negotiating terms of employment.
Railroads competed fiercely with each other to dominate the transportation market.
A Supreme Court case in which the Court determined that only the federal government had power to regulate interstate commerce.
The largest union grouping through the first half of the 20th century.
The end of the 19th century was marked by dramatic discoveries and the consumption of natural resources.
A federal act designed to regulate the practices of the railroads.
A law passed by Congress dividing tribal land into individual allotments.
An article describing the social responsibilities of the wealthy.
A term used to describe territory set aside for Native tribes by the American government.
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