Frontier Expansion
What three cities grew the most
Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago
Dismantled communal tribal land ownership and forced Native Americans into individual farming and cultural assimilation
The Dawes Act
Stirred hearts in America and Great Britain for 40 years as an evangelist
Dwight L. Moody
What did the Jim Crow Laws affect?
Public facilities such as schools, bathrooms, drinking fountains, and picnic areas
Realism
A way of portraying life as it was
America's population grew rapidly due to
Americans from farms to cities and immigrants
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
Interstate commerce commission: first government agency to regulate private businesses
Salvation Army
Founded in 1865, by General William Booth and helped the homeless and needy in many American and Canadian cities
Laws in the south that discriminated against black Americans socially, economically, and politically.
Jim Crow Laws
Samuel Clemens Known as:
Mark Twain
Immigrants mainly came from
Northwestern Europe, British isles, Germany, and Scandinavian countries
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
Broke up large companies that restrained interstate or international trade
The Process of separating people based on their skin color
Segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson
The court ruled that the Louisiana law did not violate the constitution as long as the separate facilities were equal
Lewis Wallace wrote
A tale of the Christ
What other parts of the world did Immigrants come from
Southern and Eastern Europe, Russia, Poland, Austria, and Hungary
Passed in 1900 it made gold the only standard for monetary value
Gold standard Act
Hull House
Addams purchased an old mansion with her own money and converted it into a nursery center for working mothers
What was the policy described as?
Separate
Walt Whitman wrote
O Captain My Captain
Where were immigrants checked for health and legality
Ellis Island
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Provided for competitive examinations for civil service workers
The right to vote Granted women full political privileges
Suffrage
In 1895 Booker T. Washington founded and gave a speech in Atlanta that became known as the Atlanta Compromise
Tuskegee Institute
John Philip Sousa Known as:
The March King