American Principles
This document written by Thomas Jefferson is the "break up letter" between the colonists and Great Britain.
The Declaration of Independence
This act forced Native Americans on to reservations.
Dawes Act
This process injected air into molten iron to create a lighter more flexible steel.
Bessemer Process
The head of the political machine in New York City.
Boss Tweed
This law passed in 1882 was designed to exclude Chinese immigration.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
These first ten amendments of The Constitution is known as this.
This term means adapting to or taking on another culture's traits.
Assimilation
Political Machines
This person identified five core values that made up American Principles.
Alexis de Tocqueville
This law passed in 1883 was designed to put an end to the spoils system in federal government jobs.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
These are the five freedoms associated with the First Amendment.
Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, and Petition
This act gave away free land out west.
The Homestead Act
Organizations like the Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor were created to fight for workers rights and are called this.
Labor Unions
The owner of Standard Oil.
John Rockefeller
Riot in Chicago that ended tragically and led the public to turn on labor unions.
Haymarket Riot
These are rights you are born with. Government can not give them to you nor take them away. (Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness)
Unalienable Rights
The belief that the United States was supposed to be a country that stretched from coast to coast.
Manifest Destiny
This law passed in 1890 was designed to prevent monopolies.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Created the first billion dollar corporation in US Steel.
JP Morgan
This act established the ICC.
The Interstate Commerce Act
E pluribus unum meaning
"Out of many one"
The concept of assimilation was targeted towards this group of people.
The Native Americans
These are crowded apartment buildings that were in substandard conditions.
Tenements
Wrote a book entitled "The Gospel of Wealth" that promoted the idea that God blessed the wealthy and they were expected to help the less fortunate.
Andrew Carnegie
This railroad scandal in 1868 involved a fake construction company formed by the Union Pacific Railroad.
Credit Mobilier Scandal