Early America
Document that affirmed the fundamental rights of its citizens and stated that government power is derived from the governed.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A top civic responsibility is to do this.
What is vote?
The invention of the light bulb by this person helped boost the economy of America.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Bosses would use these "smaller" bodies to do dangerous jobs, known as...
What is child labor?
Because of job competition in the West, the U.S. government created this law.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The amendment that covers informing of all charges and providing a lawyer at the time of arrest.
What is the 5th Amendment?
The fear of losing jobs to Eastern and Southern European immigrants led to the increase of this belief.
What is nativism?
New markets were created for farmers and businesses with the completion of this.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Unfair working conditions faced by employees was a primary reason for these groups to grow more.
What are labor unions?
Settlers populated the Frontier when they accepted federal land grants through this Act.
What is the Homestead Act?
Directly opposed to the genius of commerce and the pursuit of industry defines this word from Alexis de Tocqueville.
What is Laissez-faire?
Serve on this when you can is another way of fulfilling a civic responsibility.
What is jury duty?
Government corruption is a description of this era.
What is the Gilded Age?
This person donated vast sums of money to fund libraries and universities.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Rapid industrialization and new job opportunities, leading to population growth in cities is called...
What is urbanization?
Document that limits the powers of the government.
What is the Constitution?
Our motto we use on money to oppose limitations of religious practices.
What is "In God We Trust"?
The increased quality and strength of this material allowed for the building of these in major cities.
What are skyscrapers?
Standard Oil buying out competitors and controlling the industry led to the passing of this law.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
To force a minority group to adopt a mainstream culture.
What is assimilation?
Each branch of government having some power over the other two branches is known as this.
What is checks and balances?
These people would struggle with language barriers and cultural differences in their "new" home of America.
What are immigrants?
Like a modern day trophy, this word means covered in gold, but not really gold.
What is gilded?
What is a monopoly?
Jobs would provide this top pull factor for immigrants.
What are economic opportunities?