Wild, Wild West
Native Americans/Immigrants
Cities
Politics
Industrialist
100
A home made out of the prairie grass
Soddy
100
This immigrant inspection and processing station, welcomed more than 12 million European immigrants into the United States
Ellis Island
100
Name two issues within cities.
Sanitation,
Fires,
Poor drinking water
100
To ensure the election of the city boss is the primary goal of what?
Political Machine
100
He created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as the head of Standard Oil.
John D. Rockefeller
200
This invention helped to turnover the tough and rocky soil of the plains.
Steel Plow
200
This aimed to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American culture through schools and resettlement of their land.
Dawes Act
200
Coined by Mark Twain, means Covered in a Thin Layer of Gold.
Gilded
200
Using your political position for your own benefit is known as what?
Graft
200
A negative term for an industrialist, like Carnegie or Rockefeller, which mean someone that has become rich through ruthless business tactics
Rober Baron
300
This encouraged farmers to move west by providing each family with 160 acres of free land.
Homestead Act
300
This group of immigrants experienced the harshest discrimination.
Asian immigrants
300
Jane Addams was a key figure in the Social Gospel Movement, a movement which believed salvation was achieved how?
Salvation through service to other (community service)
300
He helped bring down political machines and individuals like Boss Tweed through his political cartoons.
Thomas Nast
300
This outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
400
African Americans from the South who took advantage of the Homestead Act and settled on the Great Plains.
Exodusters
400
The U.S. government ordered the intentional killing and destruction of what animal which was important to Native Americans?
Buffalo
400
These were community centers, like the Hull House, which established in cities and provided assistance to people in the area
Settlement Houses
400
Why was President Garfield assassinated?
Refused to grant office seeker a government job (Patronage)
400
The wealthy would push for less government regulation as they believed the government shouldn't help the poor due to the idea of "survival of the fittest". What is this idea called?
Social Darwinism
500
What "closed" the open range?
Barbed wire
500
This resulted in a decrease in Japanese immigrants with the understanding that San Francisco public schools would not be segregated.
Gentlemen's Agreement
500
He took pictures of slums in New York City and pushed for tenement reforms with his work How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
500
This required government employees to pass an exam to demonstrate their qualifications
Pendleton (Civil Service) Act
500
Buying out raw material producers and suppliers to improve a company's profit margin is an example of what? (owning all the means of production)
Vertical Integration