Foreign policy
What is the Mexican American war?
Conflict between Mexico and the U.S. over territory in the the southwest ending with the U.s Gaining California and new mexico.
What is Nativism?
Protecting the interests of native born or indigenous people over immigrants. Supporting immigration restriction measures.
What is the Pullman strike?
Nationwide strike against RR companies because of discontent with corporations and the power of people who were United under one cause.
What are reservations?
Designated lands, held in the trust by the U.S. government for tribal nations.
Project that provides opportunities for women and children to learn more about America.
Hull House
What was the treaty of Paris?
A treaty that ended the Spanish American war and gave the U.S Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.
What was the Chinese exclusion act?
A law that banned chinese immigration to the united states.
What is the American federation of labor?
A labor union that focused on skills workers and fought for higher wages and better working conditions.
What did buffalo do for Native Americans.
Buffalo served as food, and clothes.
Unsafe apartment building were poor urban workers and immigrants lived.
Tenement Slums
What ended the Mexican- American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What did immigrants create to preserve their culture in America?
What is the Gilded Age?
Time period of rapid economic, industrial, and technological growth.
Ghost dance
Spiritual revival dances that promised the return of their land and way of life.
What are black codes?
Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of newly freed black slaves.
What is Social Darwinism?
The belief of survival of the fittest. Strong nations would succeed and weaker ones will fail.
What did settlement houses provide for immigrants?
Education, childcare, job training, health services, and sewing classes.
What was the Great railroad strike of 1877?
Interstate strike that resulted in property damage and deaths. Caused wage cuts, workers to walk out of jobs, and block railroads
What is the Dawes act?
An act that removed Indian land from the possession of tribes and redistributed the land to individual families.
What is the laissez faire?
The idea that the government should not restrict private enterprises and there should be no government interference in the economy.
What was the Louisiana purchase?
The purchase of land from France that doubled the size of the United States.
Why did American not want immigration?
Feared they would lower wages, take their jobs, and change American culture.
What was the Pullman strike?
Pullman cut wages and refused to lower tents in company towns causing people to refuse to use pullman cars.
What is the Indian removal Act?
The Indian removal act allowed the U.S. government to force native American tribes of their land and move them west.
What is the Sherman anti trust act?
Action against monopolies, initially misused against labor unions.