Carolyn Moya
5th period
Vocabulary
1. Great Railroad Strike 1877: began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and ended
some 45 days later, after it was put down by local and state militias, and federal troops.
2. Chief Joseph surrendered 1877: as the leader of the Wallowa band of Nez Perce, a
Native American tribe indigenous to the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon, in the
interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
3. James Garfield assassinated 1881: The assassination of President James A. Garfield took
place in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
Station.
4. Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute 1881: The new all-black state school
called Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama found the energetic leader
they sought in 25-year-old Washington
5. Chinese Exclusion Act 1882: Was a United States federal law signed by President Chester
A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, it was one of the most significant restrictions on free
immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
6. Pendleton Civil Service Act 1883: Is a federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that
government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit.
7. Haymarket Square Riot 1886: On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago’s
Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.
8. American Federation of Labor 1886: Was the first federation of labor unions in the
United States. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in May 1886 by an alliance of craft
unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association.
9. Dawes Severalty Act 1887: Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of
the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for
individual Indians.
10. Jane Addams founded Hull House 1887: In 1889 Addams and her college friend and
intimate partner Ellen Gates Starr co-founded Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, the first
settlement house in the United States.
11. The "Gospel of Wealth" 1889: Is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889that
describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.