Westward Expansion
The belief that it was God's will for American colonists to expand as far west as they could.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This is the term for when the government does not interfere with business or the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
This was the immigrant processing center for immigrants coming from Asia.
What is Angel Island?
This is the name of the third party that ran in the 1892 presidential election.
What is the Populist Party?
This amendment outlaws the production, consumption, and transportation of alcohol in the United States.
What is the 18th amendment?
The Dawes Act gave 160 acres of land to Native Americans to learn this skill.
What is farming?
This man had over 1000 patents during his lifetime and is the founder of the company, General Electric.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Movement that wants to limit immigration and prefers native-born people
What is nativism?
This is the official name for the Populist Party
What is the People's Party?
The nickname for the laws that enforced segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This act gave white settlers 160 acres of land for a cheap price in order to help bring more settlers west.
What is the Homestead Act?
Describe why competition between businesses is good for the consumer?
What is you get cheaper products and high quality products?
Law that banned Chinese immigration for 60 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
President who was assassinated in 1881 because he did not support patronage.
Hint: There is a cartoon cat that shares the same name
Who is James Garfield?
This amendment established the direct election of US senators by the people, rather than having them be chosen and bought by political machines
What is the 17th amendment?
This is the term for absorbing a smaller group of people into the larger society. Native Americans went through this by being forced onto reservations and sent to boarding schools, where they learned English, Christianity, and were forced to change their appearance.
What is assimilation?
This is the richest American ever, and he made his wealth from his oil monopoly, Standard Oil. Who is he?
Who is John Rockefeller?
An organization that controls the city government through corruption.
What are political machines?
How is the value of a state determined in presidential elections?
What is population?
This was Woodrow Wilson's plan to prevent future wars after the conclusion of WWI.
What is the Fourteen Points?
This battle marks the final Native American resistance to federal authority in 1890.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee OR Wounded Knee Massacre?
This man made his wealth in the steel industry, and will become the second richest American ever.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The buildings where middle-class people move in with poor people to mentor them.
What are settlement houses?
This allows poor whites to vote if they had an ancestor who voted in 1867.
What is the grandfather clause?
This is the most negative impact that Prohibition had on the US during the 1920s.
What is the rise of organized crime?