Westward Expansion
What is the phrase coined by John O'Sullivan that explains "The God Given Right to Expand."
Manifest Destiny
Amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the country
14th
What was the phrase that explains, "A thing layer of prosperity was covering poverty and corruption that existed.'
Gilded, not Golden
Innovator most associated with the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Busiest immigration station, located in the New York Harbor.
Ellis Island
Act passed by Congress that provided 160 acres to citizens in the west. The only requirement was that the citizens had to improve the land.
The Homestead Act
Amendment that ended slavery
13th Amendment
Thomas Nast
Innovator most associated with the oil industry.
John D. Rockefeller
Type of housing built with cheap, unsafe materials that had little or no plumbing, and lacked proper ventilation
Tenement Housing
Adopting language and culture of a dominant social group or nation.
Assimilation
Amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote
15th
Act passed in response to the assassination of President Garfield. It required a person to have qualifications, increased accountability, and ended the Spoils System.
Pendleton Act
Innovator who was an American financier who reorganized businesses, most importantly the railroad.
J.P Morgan
Name of the person who advocated and fought for immigrant and children's rights. She introduced Settlement Houses in America, with the first being her own home in Chicago.
Jane Addams
Federal policy that allowed the president to break up reservations or tribal lands. This crushed the Native American culture.
Who had the belief that African Americans would never get ahead in the south, so he urged African Americans to escape to Kansas ("The Promise Land")
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, Black Moses
Type of economics that believe that the government should not interfere wiht the market economy.
Laissez- Faire Economics
Innovator most associated with the railroad industry.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Informal agreement between the US and Japan. San Francisco would repeal its Japanese- American school segregation order if Japan would deny emigration to the US.
Gentlemen's Agreement
Act that provided federal money to fund the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Pacific Railway Act
Compromise of 1877
Set of laws that regulated prices along the railroad.
Grangerr Laws
Inventor that developed the alternating- current power system, which powers most electrical appliances.
Act prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.
Chinese Exclusion Act