| tenements | | 1887 law that was in response to many complaints against the railroad companies |
| homestead act | | the ability to read and write |
| business cycle | | low-cost apartment buildings designed to house as many families as the owner could pack in |
| Sherman antitrust act | | by 1900 this company owned more than 900,000 miles of wire, sending roughly 63,000 "coded" messages a year |
| William Jennings Bryan | | a group of separate companies placed under control of a single managing board |
| interstate commerce act | | leader of the Sioux Indians who were defeated Custer at little big horn in 1876 |
| yellow journalism | | another word for tax |
| civil service | | his cross of gold speech inspired the democrats to push for expansion of the money supply as a remedy to farmers problems |
| suburbs | | a wealthy person who gives back to the society in the form of buildings dedicated to literature, education, or the arts |
| grandfather clause | | he made his millions by questionable methods to control the oil industry |
| Granger laws | | the first act passed by congress to attack the powers of the monopolistic businesses |
| populist | | a group of African Americans that called for full civil liberties, an end to racial discrimination, and recognition of human brotherhood |
| Sitting bull | | completed in 186 at promontory point, Utah |
| Rockefeller | | 1862 law that provided support for state colleges |
| Morrill land grant act | | says that government should play a very limited role in business |
| social Darwinism | | in 1896 Bryan proclaimed that the republicans "shall not crucify mankind upon a _______"(3words) |
| laissez faire | | federal lands set aside for native Americans |
| reservations | | followers of a new political party |
| monopoly | | a drop in prices of goods |
| poll tax | | exempts a group of people from obeying a law provided they meet certain conditions before the law was passed |
| patent | | says that society should do as little as possible to interfere with people's pursuit of success |
| Philanthropist | | the government's non-elected workers |
| Niagara movement | | a payment made by the government to encourage the development of ceertain key industries |
| nativism | | loose association of business that make the same product |
| ghettos | | 1892 strike in Pennsylvania against carnage steel |
| Transcontinental Railroad | | passed in several Midwestern states to limit the power of businesses who were hurting farmers |
| Western union telegraph company | | coined by mark twain, it suggested that a thin layer of prosperity covered the poverty and corruption of much of society |
| assimilation | | boom and bust period |
| literacy | | the process by which people of one culture become part of another culture |
| Haymarket riot | | complete control of a product or service |
| trust | | favoring native-born Americans over immigrants |
| Cross of Gold | | 1886 labor related violence in Chicago |
| JP Morgan | | workers called in by an employer to replace striking laborers |
| deflation | | residential communities surrounding the cities |
| scabs | | in which one ethnic or racial group dominated |
| cartel | | 1862 law that offered 160 acres of western land to settlers |
| Gilded age | | type of newspaper coverage that emphasized sensational stories |
| Tariff | | licenses to make, use, or sell an invention |
| subsidy | | special fee so people could vote |
| homestead strike | | the first billionaire, he made his money in banking |
