Manifest Destiny
What term describes the belief that Americans were destined to expand westward across the continent?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What was the main goal of the Granger Movement?
What is to combat rising prices of railroad and grain elevator companies?
Between which years did nearly 25 million people immigrate to the United States?
What are 1865 and 1914?
What natural challenges did farmers face on the Great Plains?
What are weather and insects?
What act distributed fixed portions of land to Native Americans to promote assimilation?
What is the Dawes Act?
Which act allowed people to buy large tracts of land cheaply, encouraging westward expansion?
What is the Homestead Act?
What economic principle did the Granger Movement challenge by advocating for government intervention?
What is Laissez-faire Economics?
What were the two main immigration processing centers for immigrants arriving in the United States?
What are Ellis Island and Angel Island?
What caused a drop in farmers’ income due to overproduction?
What are improved machinery, fertilizers, and more fertile farmland?
What speech by William Jennings Bryan criticized the gold standard?
What is the “Cross of Gold” speech?
What major infrastructure project, completed in the 19th century, significantly facilitated westward migration?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Which political party was created by the Granger Movement to address farmers’ issues?
What is the Populist Party (or People’s Party)?
Which act, passed in 1882, significantly restricted Chinese immigration?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What were the high costs that farmers had to pay to transport their crops to Eastern markets?
What are transportation costs?
What was the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887?
What is to regulate railroad rates?
Question: What was one of the main sources of food and spirituality for Native Americans that was targeted to remove them?
What is the buffalo or bison?
What 1887 act was the first national regulatory body aimed at controlling railroad rates?
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
What invention led to the public finding out how bad life for immigrants in the slums were?
What is flash photography?
What term describes the movement of farmers in the mid-1800s to address their economic struggles?
What is the Grange?
What was the main goal of the Populist Party?
What is to address the economic struggles of farmers?
What type of schools were set up to assimilate Native American children into American society?
What are American Indian Boarding Schools?
Who was the presidential candidate supported by both the Democrats and the Populists in the 1896 election?
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
What was a common reaction against immigrants by earlier inhabitants of an area or country?
What is nativism (or xenophobia)?
What type of economic system did the Granger Movement oppose due to its lack of regulation?
What is Laissez-faire Economics?
What was one of the main reasons for the formation of the Granger Movement?
What is high railway and storage prices?