Westward Expansion
The U.S. government adopted this plan in which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and culture and become part of white culture.
What is assimilation?
This technique was used to make steel production easier and more useful.
What is the Bessemer process?
These were community centers that addressed problems in slum neighborhoods who provided help and friendship to immigrants and the poor.
This movement tried to reform various problems in the early 1900s in social welfare, moral improvement, economic reform and build efficiencies.
What is the progressive movement?
This person was the last royal of Hawaii who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
This act broke up reservations and gave some land to the Native Americans for farming if they agreed to assimilate. This plan actually cheated out of the best land at the as plots were carved out of reservation land.
What is the Dawes Act?
This was built to span the entire United States to connect the two coasts.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
These places were multifamily urban houses that were often overcrowded and unsanitary.
What are tenements?
This banned the making and sale or use of alcohol with the 18th Amendment.
What is prohibition?
This Admiral urged the United States to build up its navy and take colonies overseas
What is Alfred T. Mahan?
This organization was created by Oliver Hudson Kelley to provide a place for farm families to discuss social and educational issues but members ended up spending most of their time fighting the railroads.
What is the Grange?
This law granted Congress the authority to regulate railroad activities.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
The growing population caused cities to develop these types of systems to to move large numbers of people along fixed routes.
What is mass transit?
These journalists wrote stories about corruption and unfair practices in business.
Who were muckrakers?
What is the purchase of Alaska?
This political movement was created to gain more more political and economic power for the common people and fought for reforms to help farmers and to make government more democratic.
What is Populism or the Populist Party?
This immigration station welcomed most European immigrants to the United States in New York City.
What is Ellis Island?
This movement taught immigrants English, and American history and government.
What is the Americanization movement?
This reform gave voters the ability to propose their own laws to be voted on.
What is the initiative?
The explosion of the USS Maine and the de Lome letter both helped turn Americans towards this war which also helped the United States gain many territories
What is the Spanish American War?
A monetary system in which the government would give people either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks.
What is bimetallism?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This organized group headed by a city boss controlled the activities of a political party in a city.
What is a political machine?
This Amendment called for senators to be elected directly by the people instead of by state legislatures.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This Act ended military rule in Puerto Rico and helped set up a civil government with the United States holding strict control over the Puerto Rican people.
These settlers were African Americans who left the South after Reconstruction ended and moved to Kansas to make a new start.
Who are exodusters?
This belief was started because many Americans were not happy with the idea of so many immigrants living in the country and pushed for immigration restrictions.
What is Nativism?
This was the custom of the giving of government jobs to people of the same party who had helped a candidate get elected which resulted in many unqualified and corrupt workers being hired.
What is patronage?
This was the main crusade for women in the 1800 and 1900s to gain the right to vote.
This rebellion was in protest of the Western influences in China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
What is the Homestead Act?
This immigration station was stricter because there were more negative attitudes towards the immigrants mainly Asian coming into San Francisco.
What is Angel Island?
This Act created a civil service commission to give government jobs based on merit which helped reform the civil service.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
This program was pushed by President Teddy Roosevelt which sponsored progressive reforms like breaking up corporate trusts and protecting food and medicines.
What is the square deal?
This policy pushed for trade with China and to keep the ports open and that no country should have any special trading rights.
What are the Open Door Notes?