People
founded the US Steel Corporation
Who is Carnegie?
Writer of the SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner
first law establishing quotas
What is the Immigration Act of 1921?
between 1880-1920 the New immigrants came from this part of Europe
southern and eastern
associated with prison reform and helping the insane
Who is Dorothea Dix?
# of acres provided in the Homestead Act
160
three word slogan of the destruction of Native American population
buffalo booze and bullets
head of the Standard Oil Company
Who is John Rockefeller?
huge un-fenced territory in the West used by ranchers to graze cattle
What is the open range?
first law to regulate railroads
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
term: to become part of the predominant culture
What is assimilation?
Hull House
Who is Jane Addams?
Women's rights amendment
19
major gripe of farmers against the railroads
short haul/long haul
head of the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers?
staple of the Native American Indian
What is the buffalo?
piad $1.25 an acre (1862) to settle the West
What is the Homestead Act?
first law prohibiting a specific immigrant group in 1882
What is the Chinese exclusion At?
one of the leaders at the Seneca Falls Convention
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
Cleveland's two terms in office
22 and 24
land grant for colleges-1862
Morrill Act
Who is the head of the Grange?
Who is Oliver Kelley?
leader of the Americans at Little Bighorn (186)
Who is George Custer?
SC case favoring the Grange (1877)
What is Munn vs. Illinois?
1952 law maintaining the quotas against immigrants but allowed 100 immigrants from each Asian country into the USA
What is the McCarran Walter Act?
"Don't forget the ladies"
Who is Abigail Adams?
ratio of silver to gold
16:1
slogan used against James K. Blaine in the election of 1884
What is "Rum Romanism and Rebellion"?
second president to be assassinated
Who is James Garfield?
1887 law dividing tribal lands and encouraging assimilation
What is the Dawes Act?
1924 law gave Indians citizenship-formal name
What is the Snyder Citizenship Act
1907-no Japanese laborers into the USA
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement
women could work but were supervised in a boarding house situation
What is the Waltham/Lowell system?
Year of the Interstate Commerce Act (Hint after Wabash)
1887
is an American immigration policy that allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the United States after being brought to the country as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit in the U.S.
What is DACA ?