The Last West
The series of conflicts in the West between Natives and the U.S. Army and western migrants over control land.
What are the Indian Wars?
Court case that established "separate but equal" and made segregation legal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The immigration station that received European immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
Rockefeller in oil and Carnegie in steel used this business structure to maximize profits and limit competition.
What is Monopoly or Trust?
Group of people who began to organize and to fight for better conditions in Industrial cities.
What are Labor Unions?
Organization of farmers in the west with the goal of improving conditions for farmers.
What is the National Grange Movement?
A group who used violent intimidation against African Americans in the South to limit their access to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment.
What is the KKK?
The immigration station that received Asian immigrants.
What is Angel Island?
This industry led to the boom of the steel and oil industry and revolutionized transportation and trade.
What is Railroad?
The process of stripping Native Americans of their culture and accepting an American identity.
What is Assimilation?
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North where African Americans were tied to the land.
What is Sharecropping?
The belief that immigrants were not wanted in the United States because they did not understand the culture and would take jobs away from Americans.
What is Nativism?
Edison's invention that led to the ability for work to be conducted at night.
What is the Light Bulb?
The first major labor union in the United States.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Homestead Act paid for by the Federal government by is an example of this.
What are Government Subsidies?
What is the Industrialization of the South (like the North)?
Crowded urban living quarters were many immigrants lived.
What are tenements?
An example of the justification of wealth created by a small group of people (Anglo-Saxons) despite the majority of people living in poverty.
What is Social Darwinism or the Gospel of Wealth?
A strike mounted by railroad workers that was broken up by the federal government and showed the government sided with big business.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This person wrote a essay where they express their concern about the closing on the Western frontier and its impact on American identity regarding expansion.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
Laws created in the South to enforce Segregation after Reconstruction ended.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This legislation that limited the immigration of people from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
An example of political corruption at the state and local level who exchanged political favors for votes.
What are Political Machines?
President of the American Federation of Labor Union and promoted the idea of collective bargaining.
Who is Samuel Gompers?