Period Six People and Events

Question 1

Knights of Labor Founded

Answer 1

very successful labor organization through striking, achieved 8 hour workday

Question 2

Sioux Wars/Little Big Horn

Answer 2

Big win for Native Americans, fought in order to keep Americans off of their land

Question 3

Great Railroad Strike

Answer 3

13 state strike that closed 2/3s of the railroads, response to reduced wages and federal troops had to be used

Question 4

Haymarket Square Riot

Answer 4

Thousands of people in Chicago, many injured and dead, ended in people seeing police brutality and people being arrested

Question 5

Dawes Act

Answer 5

asking the Native Americans to take 160-arce plots of their land and make nuclear families instead of tribes, was an attempt to Americanize them

Question 6

Sherman AntiTrust Act

Answer 6

prohibited any “contract, combination, in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce”

Question 7

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 7

established idea of “separate but equal,” legalizing segregation

Question 8

Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” Speech

Answer 8

William Jennings Bryan talked of how farmers are burdened under the gold standard, supports “free silver movement”s

Question 9

Jane Addams

Answer 9

Hull Settlement House for Immigrants