Westward Expansion
This belief justified U.S. expansion westward as a God-given right.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This act helped fund colleges focused on agriculture and engineering.
What is the Morrill Act?
Mark Twain used this term to describe an era that looked wealthy but had serious problems underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
These overcrowded apartment buildings housed many urban immigrants.
What are tenements?
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems were known as this.
Who are muckrakers?
This act gave settlers 160 acres of land if they farmed it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This act helped fund construction of the transcontinental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
These business leaders were known as “Captains of Industry” or “Robber Barons.”
Who are Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller?
Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were known by this term.
Who were the New Immigrants?
This author exposed unsafe conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This law broke up tribal lands and forced Native Americans to assimilate into American culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
This railroad dramatically improved travel, trade, and communication across the U.S.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Owning all steps of production is known as this type of integration.
What is vertical integration?
This political machine was run by Boss Tweed in New York City.
What is Tammany Hall?
These two laws improved food safety and sanitation.
What are the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act?
These two battles symbolized major conflicts between Native Americans and the U.S. Army.
What are Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee?
Chinese and Irish immigrants were most known for working on this major project.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Buying out competitors to control an industry is known as this.
What is horizontal integration?
This Supreme Court case upheld segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This program focused on fairness for workers, consumers, and businesses.
What is The Square Deal?
This invention helped end the open-range cattle industry.
What is barbed wire?
These rapidly growing towns appeared near gold and silver discoveries.
What are mining boomtowns?
This law was designed to limit monopolies but was weakly enforced at first.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This labor union focused on skilled workers and better wages and hours.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This woman founded Hull House to help immigrants and the poor.
Who is Jane Addams?