Westward Expansion
These are negative things in a person’s home, such as war, famine, or persecution, that encourage them to leave and immigrate elsewhere.
What are push factors?
During the Industrial Revolution, this type of building became the central place where large numbers of workers used machinery to produce goods.
What is a factory?
This period in the late 1800s was described as a time that looked shiny and full of progress on the outside, but was full of corruption and inequality underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
This book, written by famous muckraker Upton Sinclair, exposed the filthy conditions and unsafe labor practices in meat-packing factories during this era.
What is The Jungle?
These are attractions in a new place or country, such as job opportunities, political freedom, or available land, that draw immigrants to move there.
What are pull factors?
These transportation networks connected eastern cities with western territories and boosted trade, encouraged settlement, sped up the movement of raw materials, and prompted the creation of standardized time zones for scheduling.
What are railroads?
This term describes when a company gains control of an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
This term describes overcrowded, unsafe urban apartments where many immigrants lived.
What are Tenemants?
The long Progressive Era movement included marches and campaigns that fought for women’s right to vote.
What is Women's Suffrage?
This term was used to describe wealthy industrialists of the late 1800s who were seen as providing positive contributions to the economy, creating jobs, and giving back to society.
What is a captain of industry?
This railroad completed in 1869 connected the East and West coasts.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
During the Industrial Era, this trend occurred as factories increasingly hired younger and younger workers to perform long hours of labor for low wages.
What is Child Labor?
The average age of workers became very low during this time, as children were being sent to factories as soon as they were able
This belief favored native-born Americans over immigrants and led to support for restrictions like descriminationg against Irish laborers and the Chinese Exclusion Act.
What is nativism?
This trend saw the government step in to protect the public from big businesses by breaking up monopolies and restoring competition in the marketplace.
What is government intervention / anti-trust laws?
A type of protest when workers would stop working to demand better pay, shorter hours, or safer conditions.
What is a labor strike?
This group entered the country through Angel Island on the West Coast, settled in California, worked for low wages as railroad laborers, and faced exclusion and discrimination.
This term was used to describe powerful business owners who were accused of exploiting workers, using illegal methods, and unfairly crushing competition to gain wealth.
What is a Robber Baron?
This system of laws and customs enforced racial separation in public facilities under the idea of “separate but equal.”
What is segregation?
This political philosophy, promoted by Woodrow Wilson, aimed to break up monopolies to restore competition and give smaller businesses and individuals more economic opportunity.
This political philosophy, promoted by Theodore Roosevelt, wanted to keep big businesses around. However, it supported strong federal regulation of big business to protect workers, consumers, and the public interest.
What is New Nationalism?
This law that passed in 1862 gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived on it and farmed on it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
During the late 1800s, the government often sided with business owners, using federal troops, violence, and court injunctions to break strikes and limit the power of these worker organizations.
What are labor unions?
During the late 1800s, critics argued that monopolies and wealthy industrialists used their money and influence to control lawmakers and government policies in their favor.
What is corruption? (control over government)
This African American leader and scholar co-founded the NAACP and advocated for immediate civil rights and higher education for Black Americans.
(We read a speech by him)
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This 1890 massacre of Lakota Sioux Native Americas was caused by tensions over the U.S. government forcing Native Americans onto reservations, violations of treaties, banning the Ghost Dance, and increasing military presence on the Plains.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?