Westward Expansion
The small areas of land that Native Americans were forced to live on.
What is a reservation?
The name of the railroad that stretches across the entire country
what is the transcontinental railroad
A point of entry for many European immigrants
what is Ellis Island
The leader of the NY based political Machine Tammany Hall
who is boss tweed
social darwinism's catch phrase
what is survival of the fittest
the 19th Amendment
what is women's suffrage
Broke apart reservations from Tribal control and ended Native sovereignty.
What is the Dawes Act
helped to make oil, steel, railroads, banking, agriculture, manufacturing, and electricity hugely profitable
What is industrialization
War, Conflict, Famine, Drought, Economic Hardships, Persecution, and Lack of Freedoms
What are Push Factors
investigative journalists that try to expose the issues with society
who are the muckrakers
Groups created to help fight for workers rights
what are labor unions
ended the manufacturing, transport, and sale of alcohol also called prohibition
what is the 18th Amendment
The battle was also known as Custer's Last Stand
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn
The method used by Carnegie to create a Steel monopoly
what is vertical integration
Land, Jobs, Freedoms, Social Mobility, and Family
What are Pull factors
Consumer Protection, Conservation, and Corporate Controls are the 3 c's of Roosevelt's plan
what is the square deal
A tactic used by workers to stop production, impact profits, and give workers leverage to negotiate with factory owners.
what are strikes
part of the party wanted to be more progressive while the other part embraced the status quo
what is the split of the Republican party
The battle that ended the Indian Wars
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee
The method used by Rockefeller to expand Standard Oil into a monopoly
This group came from South Western Europe and Asia
who are the new immigrants
This man wrote the Jungle to expose the meat packing industry and working conditions
who is Upton Sinclair
people migrating into cities
what is urbanization
Aimed at breaking apart large industries that were controlled by 1 company
what is the Sherman antitrust act
The act that gave 160 acres of land to people willing to cultivate and improve the land
What is the Homestead Act
Bimetallism
What is the idea that US currency should be backed by both gold and silver
The group that developed to protect "native" US citizens and discriminated against immigrants
who are the nativists
Created the NAACP to provide support to African Americans
who is WEB Dubois
lowrise affordable housing often putting a family into a 1 bedroom apartment
what are tenement houses
they arrives in America from north Eastern Europe and often looked the same, spoke similar languages, had similar customs, and shared similar/the same religions
Who are the old immigrants