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What was the name William Marcy Tweed used based off of a Delaware Indian chief?
Tammany Hall
Which cartoonist received a $500,000 bribe from William Tweed not to run cartoons in the newspaper against him?
Thomas Nat
Who finally convicted William Tweed in 1872, and would later become the future governor of New York?
Samuel Tilden
Which act brought over fifty thousand prospectors to Oklahoma to get the free, Indian cleared land?
Homestead Act
When was the Great Oklahoma Land Rush?
April 22, 1889
Who did Davis quote in watching the Great Oklahoma Land Rush?
Hamilton S. Wicks
When and where was the first successful Union gathering, where 10,000 workers complained for higher wages, eventually getting them?
February 17, 1860, Lynn, MA
In 1875, Pennsylvania, what did the Irish coal worker Union call themselves, before being caught and executed for grounds of violence?
Molly Maguires
What and when was the first labor Union organized, later having over 700,000 members?
Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, 1869
The Knights of Labor Massacre happened when and where, pretty much ending the labor Union when police got involved: bombs dropping, guns a'blazing?
May 3, 1886, Chicago
Who were the Knights of Labor against in their massacre?
McCormick Reaper Company
Who were the leaders of the American Railroad Union? (E, S)
Eugene Debs, Samuel Gompers
What company did 60,000 laborers in the American Railroad Union go against in 1894, Chicago, where strikers were eventually killed by the military?
Pullman Car Company
Who founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), getting impressive gains for laborers like better wages, shorter working hours, safety, and the right to negotiate?
Samuel Gompers
What minority group did the AFL exclude that reduced its chances to make even more progress?
African Americans
What was the nickname given to prospectors who "jumped the gun" with the Great Oklahoma Land Rush?
Sooners
What were farm organizations called?
Granges
When and where did the Granges and remnants of the Knights of Labor form the People's/Populist Party?
1892, St. Louis
Which populist leader said, "What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell!"?
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Who became president in 1892?
Grover Cleveland
Who gave the famous speech, "Cross of Gold" in 1896?
William Jennings Bryan
Who won the presidential race against William Jennings Bryan and Populists in 1896 because they spent $7 million, "buying" the race?
William McKinley
How much of a fraction was Homer Plessy black, still enough for him to get arrested for trying to sit on a white reserved railroad coach?
1/8
When was the Plessy vs. Ferguson case taken to the Supreme Court, saying that "separate but equal" was constitutional?
1896
What were the South afraid of the blacks, with the Jim Crow laws? (P,S)
Politics, sex
What was the name of the entertainer who called himself Jim Crow, pretending to be a stupid African American?
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
Who became very educated, creating schools for African Americans in the South, trying to get blacks educated and work hard, could have a way of mesmerizing the crowd?
Booker Washington