Go West, Young Nation!
Animal that was essential to the Plains Indians that was decimated due to overhunting and westward expansion
Buffalo
Total control over a business or industry
This immigration station processed millions of arrivals entering through New York Harbor
Ellis Island
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems during the Progressive Era were known by this nickname
Muckrakers
Struggling farmers formed this party, also known as the People's Party
Populist Party
Authorized the building of transcontinental railroad along a northern route
Pacific Railway Act
Formed to protect the rights of workers
Labor unions
Poorly constructed, dangerous housing built quickly to accommodate growing urban populations
Tenements
Supreme Court case that legalized segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson
The belief that government should interfere as little as possible in the economy was known as this policy
Laissez-faire
This 1862 law granted settlers 160 acres of land if they improved it for five years.
Homestead Act
Monopolists who controlled oil and steel, respectively
Oil = Rockefeller
Steel = Carnegie
Two different areas from which "new" immigrants came during the Gilded Age
Asia and Southeast Europe
Name at least 2 areas of improvement progressives focused on
Housing
Child Labor
Meatpacking Industry
Political Corruption
Workers Rights and Conditions
Economic policy favored by Republican bankers and big business in the North
Gold standard
This phrase demonstrated the US policy of assimilation
"Kill the Indian, Save the Man"
Theory that supported the idea that the rich were rich because they are inherently better and the poor are poor because they are inferior
Social Darwinism
Jane Addams cofounded Hull House, a famous one of these
Settlement Houses
Protestant movement to apply Christian principles to solve social issues
Social Gospel
Politicians would give government jobs to their supporters
Party patronage
Name one of the two major conflicts between white settlers and Plains Indians
Wounded Knee Massacre
Battle of Little Bighorn
Name 2 of the four famous labor strikes
Great Railroad Strike (1877)
Haymarket Riot (1886)
Homestead Strike (1892)
Pullman Strike (1894)
Act that banned a specific group of Asian immigrants from entering the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act
This book by Upton Sinclair exposed unsafe conditions in the meatpacking industry
The Jungle
Populist who ran as the democratic nominee in the 1896 presidential election
William Jennings Bryan