West and Native America
Assimilation and Removal
Industrialization and Labor
Strikes and Politics
Immigration and Urban America
100
Signed by Lincoln in 1862, this law promised 160 acres of public land to any settler willing to farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
"Kill the Indian, save the man" was the philosophy of this army officer who founded the Carlisle Indian School.
Who is Henry Pratt?
100
This labor organization, founded in 1869, welcomed skilled and unskilled workers--including women and African Americans--and advocated for an eight-hour day and worker cooperatives.
What is the Knights of Labor?
100
This 1894 strike against a Pullman railroad car company was broken by federal troops, demonstrating the government's willingness to side with employers.
What is the Pullman Strike?
100
This term describes the wave of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, who arrived after 1880 and settled in American cities.
What is New Immigration?
200
This 1862 legislation authorized the construction of a transcontinental railroad and granted land and loans to railroad companies.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
200
This Pennsylvania school, founded in 1879, was the first off-reservation boarding school for Native American children and became a model for forced assimilation.
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
200
This man led the Knights of Labor as Grand Master Workman and believed that strikes were "suicidal" and that workers should reform society through cooperatives.
Who is Terence Powderly?
200
This ideology applied Charles Darwin's ideas of natural selection to society, while justifying laissez-faire capitalist's wealth accumulation while opposing labor unions.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
Famine, persecution, poverty, and religious discrimination are examples of this type of force that drives people to leave their homeland.
What are push factors?
300
These two railroad companies met at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1869 to complete the first transcontinental railroad.
What are the Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
300
This term describes when outside forces overwhelm and control a society from without, or the process by which Native peoples were subjected to white American domination.
What is Exogenous Domination?
300
This federation, founded in 1886, focused on skilled craft unions, collective bargaining, and "bread and butter" issues like wages and hours rather than broad social reform.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
300
This 1886 case established that a private property owner could be liable for a tenant's injuries in a tenement.
What is People v. Hall?
300
Job opportunities, freedom, and family reunification are examples of this type of force that attracts immigrants to a new country.
What are pull factors?
400
This Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man defeated George Armstrong Custer at the Little Bighorn in 1876, later declaring he would "rather die an Indian than live a white man."
Who is Sitting Bull?
400
This phrase describes the process by which settler societies replaced Native ones, often through boarding schools, land allotment, or slaughtering buffalo.
What is Destruction for Replacement?
400
This Jewish immigrant as the first president of the American Federation of Labor and believed workers should focus on "more, more, here and now."
Who is Samuel Gompers?
400
Led by Boss Tweed, this New York political machine closely tied immigrant communities and provided services in exchange for votes.
What is Tammany Hall?
400
This 1882 law was the first major federal restriction on immigration, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States for ten years--and also what I study!
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
This 1887 law broke up tribal lands into individual allotments and sold the "surplus" to white settlers.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
500
This policy's goal was to break up tribes, force Native Americans to adopt private property and farming, and thereby "civilize" them by destroying their communal way of life.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
500
This 1886 Chicago rally in Haymarket Square turned violent when a bomb was thrown, leading to a crackdown on labor radicals and the decline of the Knights of Labor.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
500
This concept describes cities such as Boston, MA, which grew through immigration, trade, and unplanned development.
What is the Organic City?
500
This Danish-born journalist and photographer documented tenement life in How the Other Half Lives, exposing the squalid conditions of New York City's poor immigrants.
Who is Jacob Riis?