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Industrialization led to changes in work that included a sharp reduction in numbers of people with this kind of job.
Who are artisans or skilled manufacterers?
The increasing power of the owning and managerial classes and the decreasing power of workers as industry changed the nature of work led to the formation of these organizations that fought for better treatment of workers.
What are labor unions?
Who are indigenous people?
This ideology promoted the expansion of the US border farther and farther west over time.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Some wealthy and powerful people in the late 1800s justified their success and the growing wealth inequality using this theory that the gap between rich and poor was based on natural differences in people.
What is Social Darwinism?
This political party grew out of farmer's concerns about the power of big business and technology.
What is the People's Party or Populist Party?
The workers on the Transcontinental Railroad came mainly from these two countries.
What are Ireland and China?
Immigration from this country was limited in the US by a law passed in 1882.
What is China?
Carlisle was the most famous of this type of institution that forced many indigenous people to give up their languages and cultures.
What are boarding schools?
This law granted free land in the American West to anyone willing to live on and farm that land for a period of several years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Supporters of big business tended to support this type of government policy, which involved minimal regulation of businesses.
What is laissez-faire?
Although they did not have the same amount of autonomy as the farmers whose land they worked, this group which included many formerly enslaved people was fairly likely to support agricultural movements started by farmers.
Who are sharecroppers?
This religious group moved west multiple times in search of a place where they could practice their beliefs, ultimately settling in Utah
Who are the Mormons (today known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)?
The development of new settlements in the west as well as the building of the railroad contributed to the rapid decimation of this animal, a key resource for many indigenous peoples.
What is the bison?
Many white Americans felt that with the passage of these three significant changes to the American legal system, Black Americans had achieved legal equality.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th)
Big businesses created these new structures to allow them to collaborate and keep prices artificially high.
What are holding companies or trusts?
This trend was the biggest pull factor that increased immigration to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is increased industrial growth?
These organizations were founded in cities to support new immigrants, although the support often came with strong pressure to assimilate.
What are settlement houses?
This movement that involved multiple indigenous nations was a form of resistance to white settlement of the west.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was legally permissible as long as accommodations were "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This kind of government action involves reducing the costs a company incurs while developing a project the government favors, as exemplified by government land grants and tax breaks for railroad companies.
What are subsidies?
The increased role of technology and the growth of powerful corporations inspired the creation of agricultural organizations like this early movement.
What is the Grange movement?
The so-called "new immigrants" who arrived from Europe after 1880 tended to come from these two regions.
What are southern and eastern Europe?
This law converted reservations into individually owned portions of land, and had the effect of reducing the amount of land held by indigenous people.
What is the Dawes Act?
These organizations, found primarily in cities, built political power by providing social services in exchange for votes.
What are political machines?