Westward Expansion
The New South and Technology (6.4, 6.5)
Industrial Capitalism (6.6, 6.7)
Immigration and the Middle Class (6.8, 6.9, 6.10)
Reform, Government, Politics (6.11, 6.12, 6.13)
100
The Sierra Club was created by this person in order to promote the preservation of nature, unfortunately he said racist things too
John Muir
100
This court case established the principle of "separate but equal" which legalized jim crow segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
100
This is the name for when a company buys out all of its competitors, thus eliminating the competition like Rockefeller did in the oil industry
(Horizontal Integration, Standard Oil)
100
crowded, run down apartments where immigrants lived in cities were called
tenements
100
This African-American activist znd journalist dedicated her life to exposing the awful truth and reality of lynching in the South
Ida B. Wells
200
This law intended to break up the reservation system to make Native Americans into landowners and farmers, thus assimilating them into American society and integrating them into the economy. It was in the movie we watched.
Dawes Act (1887)
200
Although slavery was over after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved people continued to work as poor farmers in a system called ___________________
Sharecropping
200
This famous economist wrote that the economy is most efficient when the government is "hands off" or doesn't interfere with the economy so the "invisible hand" can guide the economy
Adam Smith
200
What event happened in Ireland that led to large amounts of migration from Ireland to the United States?
Irish Potato Famine
200
These were organized groups that maintained political control through a system of patronage, bribery, and manipulation, particularly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including in New York
Political Machines
300
This law gave people 160 acres of free land as long as they agreed to farm and develop the plot for 5 years
Homestead Act (1862)
300
This was the name for the newly developed method for making steel that was stronger and cheaper
Bessemer Process
300
What major labor protest ended when a bomb was thrown into a crowd in Chicago?
Haymarket Bombing/Riot (1886, Chicago)
300
Anti-Immigrant groups like the American Protective Association created anti-immigrant propaganda. What is another word for being anti-immigrant?
Nativist
300
This was the idea that very rich people should use their wealth to help society
Gospel of Wealth
400
This is the name for African-American migrants who left the South to move West to places like Kansas
Exodusters
400
This black leader famously and controversially delivered the "Atlanta Compromise" speech and was the leader of the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
400
Wealthy industrialists justified their monopolies and their dominance in the economy using this idea associated with the phrase "survival of the fittest"
Social Darwinism
400
As cities grew, wealthier and middle class people moved out of cities to these surrounding residential communities
suburbs
400
This third political party believed in expanding democracy, increasing the money supply, and taxing the rich more
Populist Party/People's Party
500
This was the name for the Mexican rebels who fought against white settlers in New Mexico by cutting fences, burning farms, and destroying railroad tracks
Las Gorras Blancas
500
Name two examples of voter discrimination laws that were passed to stop African-Americans from voting
(poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause)
500
This major labor union fought for broad changes in the country including empowering workers, ending child labor, and an 8-hour work day.
Knights of Labor
500
This federal Law provided land grants to states to establish colleges and universities. It led to the creation of University of California
Morrill Act (1862, 1890)
500
Although it wasn't heavily enforced in the 1800s, the government did pass this important law that was meant to stop the formation of monopolies/trusts
Sherman Antitrust Act