Western Frontier
Legislation that basically provided free land for settlers
Homestead Act
Steel industrialist and philanthropist
Andrew Carnegie
People who came from southern and eastern Europe
"New" immigrants
Crowded, poorly ventilated apartments
tenements
Practice of rewarding friends and political supporters with government jobs
patronage, or "spoils system"
Miners went to the Black Hills and Alaska for this mineral
gold
Robber baron who owned the Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
Processing facility at New York harbor
Ellis Island
Leader of Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed
Movement to base hiring on merit and actual qualifications
civil service reform
Transcontinental Railroad
Federal regulatory law designed to crack down on unfair railroad shipping
Interstate Commerce Act
Ethnic neighborhoods where immigrants of the same culture flocked together
ghettos
Local corrupt political organization led by a boss
political machine
Farm and labor third party formed in 1892
Populist
Activity that destroyed Native American life on the plains
Buffalo hunting
Belief that government should stay out of the economy
laissez-faire
Dislike and hostility towards immigrants by people born in the US
nativism
types of transit systems in cities
subways, trolleys, elevated trains
Type of coinage supported by Populists
silver
Legislation that divided Indian tribal lands and was meant to Americanize them
Collection of skilled craft unions led by Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
First federal law to restrict immigration to the US
Chinese Exclusion Act
term to describe city authorities
municipal
Populist-Democratic 1896 candidate famous for "Cross of Gold" speech
William Jennings Bryan