Westward Ho!
What idea was the "god-given right & duty to expand the United States into West"?
Manifest Destiny
Name one push factor and one pull factor for immigrants wanting to come to the United States.
Push - political/religious turmoil, population growth, crop failure, Industrial Revolution
Pull - freedom, economic opportunity, land
What was the name of the political party formed to support farmers and their struggles?
Populist Party
What board game was inspired by Gilded Age companies?
Monopoly
Name an urban problem
Crime, Sanitation, Fire, Tenement housing, transportation
What industrial invention led to the end of the "open-range" era?
Barbed wire
What inspired the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)?
Racial and cultural discrimination; job competition in CA
What were the methods by which workers fought for better workplace conditions?
Protest, picketing, striking, flyers and information campaigns
What kinds of reforms helped to minimize the influence of political machines and bosses?
Referendums, direct primaries, recalls
Why were exodusters leaving the South?
Land, new opportunity, fleeing racial oppression
What major Native American food source/resource was negatively impacted by the arrival of white settlers?
Bison/buffalo
Where did most immigrants settle in AND what did they experience?
Cities; unsanitary living/working conditions
What tragic incident inspired a revolution in workplace fire safety conditions?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
What is the difference between horizontal integration and vertical integration?
Horizontal - owning all of the same part of production (eg. po boy bread)
Vertical - owning all parts of the production process (ex. Dong Phuong)
What U.S. states make up the Great Plains region?
Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, north Texas
Who worked on the railroads?
E to W - Irish immigrants, war veterans, African Americans
W to E - mostly Chinese immigrants
What facility did Chinese immigrants mostly come through?
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair inspired President Teddy Roosevelt to establish what?
Food and Drug Administration, Meat Inspection Act
What Industrial Age law helped end the "robber baron" era?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Compare what Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois thought about jobs.
BTW - blue collar
DuBois - "intellectual"
What happened to Native Americans as a result of the Homestead and Dawes Acts?
They were forced off their land and onto reservations --> assimilation
Why was Ellis Island the preferred destination for immigrants?
Better living conditions, more efficient immigration process
Name a famous muckraker and a famous robber baron
Muckraker - Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell
Robber Baron - Rockefeller, Carnegie
What was a major concern of farmers in the West having a hard time selling their goods?
The lack of regulation of railroads --> leads to the Interstate Commerce Act
Besides being a vocal advocate against child labor, what else was President William Howard Taft famous for?
The infamous bathtub story