Westward Expansion
The belief that the United States was divinely destined to expand its boarders and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
What is manifest destiny?
Often neglected in dangerous, and often fatal working conditions, longer working hours, these workers were paid less than adults adults.
What is Child Labor?
When one person/company controls the supply of a product.
These men led the machine and provided city dwellers with needed jobs, housing, food, heat, and police protection in exchange for votes.
They came from Poland, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Greece, and Russia, and comprised of Jews, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians.
Who are the New Immigrants.
The act of building, expanding, and moving to cities.
What is Urbanization?
These workers created the first national association dedicated to promoting eight hour work days, creation of minimum wages, an end to evening work for women, and abolition of child labor.
What are Women?
These men, including Rockefeller, used ruthless tactics to destroy competition and keep their worker’s wages low.
What are the robber barons?
He controlled thousands of city workers in NYC and influenced the operation of schools, hospitals, and other city-run services.
Who is Boss Tweed?
White settlers complaining about Chinese immigrants led to this.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This project was completed with a final spike at Promontory Summit, and cut travel time from one coast to the other from months to days.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
He founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and organized workers to demand better conditions from employers.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
The policy where the government did not interfere in business.
What is Laissez-Faire?
This political machine served as a source of political graft and corruption, notably under Boss Tweed, it also helped pave the way for immigrants' political involvement and supported early forms of social welfare measures.
What is Tammany Hall?
A factor that causes someone to leave their home/country/region/ organization /religion.
What is a push factor?
This Act gave up to 160 acres of land to anyone willing to "improve" the land over a period of five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This was the largest labor organization in America, and accepted both skilled and unskilled workers.
What is the Knights of Labor?
By 1879, his Standard Oil controlled 90% of all oil refining in the United States.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This was a collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters
What is Tin Pan Alley?
Small apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of people; often lacked light, heat, fresh air and plumbing.
What is a tenement?
This U.S. law was designed to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream society by breaking up communal tribal lands and allotting them to individual families, with the goal of promoting farming and private property ownership.
What is the Daws Act?
This made American Steel, faster, stronger, and cheaper to produce than other nations steel.
What is the Besmear Steel Process?
He wrote “The Gospel of Wealth” describing the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This is the process of making an immigrant more “American”
What is Americanization?
Europeans immigrating to the United States arrived here.
What is Elis Island?