Natives & Nativism
This U.S. legislation aimed at Native Americans wiped out tribal ownership of property and granted 160 acres to heads of families.
What is DAWES ACT?
A sensational, often lurid style of reporting of the news.
What is yellow journalism?
This was one of the few third parties that gained national attention. It was formed by farmers upset about high interest rates and unfair shipping practices.
What is POPULISM/POPULIST PARTY?
The idea put forth by Andrew Carnegie that the wealthy should use their resources to help society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth
Written by Edward Bellamy about a utopian 2000 based on socialism.
What is Looking Backward
The United States government's outlawing of the Ghost Dance in 1890 resulted in this massacre.
What is BATTLE OF WOUNDED KNEE?
This gave the United States' right to intervene in Cuba to maintain peace and law and order after the Spanish and American War.
What is the Platt Amendment?
Because existing city government structures were so disorganized and chaotic, and services to help immigrants assimilate into American society, these organizations provided help to immigrants in return for political support.
What is a POLITICAL MACHINE?
This business practiced promoted the success of Standard Oil.
What is Horizontal Integration?
The two factors that did most to stimulate rapid western settlement were....
What is Removal of Native Americans from the western plains and the arrival of the railroad.
In the West, the immigrants who bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s were from this country.
What is CHINA?
American went to war against Spain in 1898 because of
What is the explosion of the USS Maine or in support of the Cuban fight for independence
This Supreme Court decision upheld the principle of "separate but equal..."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This philosophy allowed men of wealth, like Carnegie and Rockefeller, to justify the economic inequality that favored them over the nation's poor.
What is SOCIAL DARWINISM?
Jane Addams is most closely associated with this movement that provided education, child care, and job services to immigrants and women.
What is Settlement House Movement?
Small, poorly made apartments that the new immigrants moved into in the East during the Gilded Age
Tenements
McKinley officially urged the Senate to accept acquisition of these Pacific islands in order to keep them out of "enemy" hands.
What is the Philippines?
The Democratic Party and the Populist Party combined against the Republican Party in this important election.
What is the Election of 1896
Carnegie's system of business organized that involved combining all phases of the steel industry, from mining to manufacturing, into a single corporation
What is vertical integration
This prominent figure advocated for African Americans to raise themselves economically before politically
Who is Booker T. Washington
1882, The first significant law restricting immigration based on race into the United States
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
This colorful volunteer regiment won the Battle of San Juan Hill.
What are the Rough Riders
The purpose of the Pendleton Act was....
What is end the patronage/spoils system, provide civil service jobs based on merit instead of political favor
This scandal involved a railroad company forming its own construction company, then hiring itself to do work at government expense
What is the Credit Mobilier scandal
Protestant movement to support those in poverty. Believed it was their Christian duty to help.
What is the Social Gospel