Westward Expansion and "New" South
The central conflict between American Indians and American settlers.
What is land?
The term given to a business when they become the only seller of a certain product in a market.
What is a monopoly/trust?
Name a pull factor attracted many immigrants to the U.S. after the Civil War.
What is/are industrial jobs, land, political freedom, etc.?
This wealthy steel monopolist in America felt like giving back to society by building libraries was a good use of his money.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The economic theory that the government should not regulate the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
Describe two pull factors that attracted people to the West.
What is mining, ranching, farming, railroads, etc.?
Millions of industrial workers formed these after the Civil War as a way of fighting back against low wages and poor working conditions.
What are labor unions?
Like Native Americans, many immigrants were encouraged to adopt White American culture.
What is assimilation?
What is the "Gospel of Wealth"?
U.S. Marines overthrew the ruler of these islands in the late 1800s because they wanted control over this island's economy.
What is Hawaii?
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson legalized this.
What is racial segregation?
Many of these people were hired to work in industrial jobs because their families needed more money and they were cheap to hire.
Who are children?
The majority of immigrants in the 1800s settled in these two regions of the country.
What is the Northeast and Midwest?
Many college educated women participated in this movement to gain the right to vote.
What is the National American Woman Suffrage Association/NAWSA?
The Hawaiian islands lie in this large ocean on Earth and are often thought of as a midway "stopping point" for American ships trading with Asia.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This animal was hunted to near extinction as American settlers moved westward after the Civil War.
What are bison/buffalo?
This economic class grew as more Americans gained better paying jobs.
What is the middle class?
The term given to people who oppose mass immigration.
Who are nativists?
What is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union/WCTU?
These political organizations in cities ran city government through corrupt tactics.
Who are political machines?
The process of forcing a minority group to adopt the culture of the majority group.
What is assimilation?
This strike occurred when a business owner cut his workers pay while also increasing their rent in their work apartments.
What is the Pullman Strike?
Immigrants from this Asian country were eventually banned from coming to the United States during the Gilded Age.
What is China?
The reform movement that applied Christian values to helping those that were less fortunate.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
This Gilded Age New York City politician stole millions of taxpayer money from the citizens of New York.
Who is "Boss" Tweed?