Land
Grant that gave plots of land away for free
What is the homestead act?
This is an organization of workers who work together in order to gain better working conditions, including pay and benefits.
What is a labor union
When a company is the only provider of a good or service
What are Monopolies?
What Act authorized land grants to promoted the building of transcontinental railroads because it provided both a route and land to sell to raise capital for the building of the tracks.
What is the Pacific Railway Act
chief U.S. immigration station; in NY harbor; primarily accepts European immigrants
What was Ellis Island
Railroads led to the adoption of this national policy. Before this, each area had its own local time based on the position of the sun.
what is time zones?
After this group helped to build the railroads, only a limited number of them were allowed to enter the country each year thanks to this Act
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
This theory justified people holding extreme wealth stating that the best, strongest countries, people and companies deserve to overcome weaker ones for the betterment of society
What is Social Darwinism
a device that generated power by heating coal to create steam that powered trains, steam boats, oil drills, and factories
What is the steam engine?
During the Industrial Revolution immigrants from these 2 regions of Europe were generally Less skills, poor, more likely to settle in cities, and in some cases were escaping religious persecution
What is Southern and Eastern Europe
The railroad encouraged the killing of this creature
What are bison/ buffalo?
In 1886, Samuel Gompers help found this organization that used collective bargaining-negotiating between labor and management-to negotiate for “bread and butter” issues, such as better wages, hours, and working conditions.
What was the American Federation of Labor (AFL
The name given to wealthy men that benefited off of the hard labor of the poor
What are Robber Barons?
As the railroads expanded faster than the markets they were intended to serve, there was a lack of economic activity that led many railroad companies to go bankrupt causing people to run to banks to withdraw their money in the
What was the Economic Panic of 1893
west coast immigration station in San Francisco; primarily Asian immigrants
What is Angel Island
To gain more land for white settlers out west this act tried to assimilate Native tribes into American society.
What was the Dawes Act
These were organizations set up to control elected offices in the cities. They were headed by “bosses” that could be, but did not have to be, the actual mayor.
What were Political Machines
When one company takes over and controls all competing companies. Hint: used by Rockefeller
What is Horizontal integration
This man invited the skyscraper leading to cities to be able to hold a higher population of residence
who is William Le Baron Jenney
Due to immigrants being poor and wanting to stay around those that shared they same culture this devoted in cities at this time and still exist today
What are ethnic neighborhoods
Native Americans’ attempts to revive their traditions, such as the Ghost Dance, were viewed as threat by the United States army and resulted in a massacre at this site
What is Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Owners reacted to strikes by hiring workers coined this term. They were non-union workers who would cross the picket line; many were African Americans and immigrants.
What were “scabs”
The economy will flourish naturally with the least amount of government regulation
What is Laissez Faire (hands off)
the Farmer alliances led to this new social movement movement of people that wanted economic and political reforms in ECONOMICs and Politics
What was the Populist Party
a Movement to keep immigrants out and maintain the security of native-born Americans.
What is nativism