Native Americans
This tribe started in the Virginia area and was forced to move to Oklahoma
Cherokee
What is it called when you own all (or most) of production for one product
Monopoly
what year was gold found near what is now San Francisco?
1849
What city did most European immigrants arrive in the U.S. at?
New York
George A. Custer
This tribe lived in Georgia and Florida (still in Florida) and was forcibly relocated to Oklahoma
Seminole
This man started in the railroad business then moved to steel and created a large steel monopoly
Andrew Carnegie
What nationality were most immigrants who worked on the Railroad
Chinese or other Asian countries
What type of housing did working class people live in in the city, sometimes 12 people living in a single room?
Tenement housing
Assimilation or Normal Schools
This is the name of the forcible relocation of Native Americans to from the East to the west
Trail of Tears
This man started Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller
What was the difference in the railroads in the north and south after the Civil War?
different gauges (size) of tracks
the belief that no matter what a person's background is, he or she can still become successful through effort.
Individualism
What resource was found in Nevada
Silver
What was Oklahoma originally called?
Indian territory
This man was an investment banker
J.P. Morgan
other than California, where else was gold discovered in large quantities?
Alaska
describe a Greenback
Paper currency that could not be exchanged for gold or silver
Name of law that made it illegal for people from Asian countries to immigrate to the U.S.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
What is the Dawes Act?
Government plan to turn Native Americans into productive farmers
This president was known as a "Muck Raker" and "Trust Buster"
Theodor Roosevelt
What is the name of the Railroad that crosses the U.S.?
Transcontinental Railroad
name of laws that enforced segregation
Jim Crow laws
Economic philosophy that government should interfere as little as possible in a nation's economy
Laissez-faire