American Origins
The original purpose of the Constitution
What is to set up the government
This type of building was shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access
What are Tenements
The idea that the wealthy should use their fortunes to improve society by funding public institutions like libraries and hospitals
What is the Gospel of Wealth
The main goal of the Women's movement
What is the right to vote
The business strategy where a company merges with or acquires another company operating at the same level of the supply chain, often within the same industry, to increase market share, gain economies of scale, reduce competition, and expand geographic reach
Horizontal Integration
A system in which southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations. It kept African Americans in bondage by targeting them with unfair arrests and convictions.
What is Convict-leasing
People who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
Who are Immigrants
The process of a company taking control of multiple stages of its supply chain, such as owning its suppliers and distributors, to gain more control, reduce costs, and improve efficiency
What is Vertical Integration
People are still advocating for what to be passed in congress
What is the Equal Rights Amendment
The journalists and photographers who went into the urban cities and exposed what life was like for the lower class
Who are Muckrakers
The tribe native to this area
Who are the Nisenan
Once many Chinese Americans recognized that little money was to be made during the CA Gold Rush, they opened up these businesses (must have both answers)
What are Laundry/Laundry mats and Restaurants
The negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees
What is Collective Bargaining
This document was created at the Seneca Falls Convention
What is the Declaration of Sentiments
With the ratification of this amendment women were able to vote in the United States
What is the 19th amendment
In order to keep people enslaved and the system of slavery alive well after their elimination by law following the Civil War, people used these methods. (must have at least two answers)
What are vagrancy laws, sharecropping, voter suppression, sharecropping
The primary push factor for many Irish Immigrants
What is a Famine
Business owners who built their fortunes by stealing from the public through the use of bad business practices
Who are Robber Barons
The Westward expansion across the United States
What is Manifest Destiny
The continents/countries of origin that most people immigrated from during the 1800s (must have all three answers)
What are Europe, Asia, and Latin America
The Enlightenment idea that was influential in supporting colonist's arguments for revolution and a new government
What is people have the right to overthrow an unfit government
Amidst the discrimination of immigrants, this party arose and was fiercely anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant, advocating for restrictions on immigration, the exclusion of foreign-born individuals from holding public office, and longer residency requirements for citizenship
Who is the Know Nothing Party
Higher prices for consumers, lack of competition, and reduced innovation due to little need for improvement. Are all results of this business practice.
What is a Monopoly/Monopolies
There was a push for the United States to adopt imperialism for these reasons (must have both answers)
What are an economic depression and an influx of immigrants
According to President Johnson, white Southerners reclaim their citizenship status and their land claim by doing this
What is Apologizing to him specifically