Historical Periods
This is a period of time identified by political, economic, or social trends.
What is an era@
This demographic change was most associated with U.S. industrial growth in the late nineteenth century.
What is increased migration to urban areas?
Railroad expansion benefited farmers by providing affordable access to these.
What are distant markets?
Many Irish immigrants faced discrimination because they belonged to this religious group.
What is Roman Catholicism?
These government policies helped increase settlement of the Great Plains by offering land to settlers.
What are federal land grants?
This period was characterized by industrialists using connections with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power.
What is the Gilded Age?
he application of electricity in the early 1900s made this part of the economy more efficient.
What are manufacturing processes?
The need to process large amounts of cattle helped make this a major industry.
What is meatpacking?
This 1882 law was primarily a response to competition for jobs on the West Coast.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The Homestead Act process led to the establishment of these on the American frontier.
What are agricultural communities?
Justice John Marshall Harlan warned against allowing these powerful businesses to dominate interstate commerce.
What is union membership?
Andrew Carnegie established philanthropic organizations dedicated to these areas.
What are education and the arts?
This term describes native-born opposition to Chinese immigration and competition for jobs.
What is nativism or anti-Chinese sentiment?
The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to promote this policy toward American Indians.
What is cultural assimilation?
Carnegie believed libraries provided these “ladders” for people who wanted to rise.
What are opportunities for self-improvement?
This ideology sought to protect native-born Americans by restricting immigration.
What is nativism?