Westward Expansion
What was the primary motivation behind the U.S. government's promotion of Westward Expansion in the 19th century?
What is land for farming and settlement (Manifest Destiny)?
The completion of this railroad in 1869 connected the eastern U.S. to the western U.S. for the first time.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Which industrialist was known for his dominance in the steel industry during the Gilded Age?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Which journalist is known for exposing the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry in his book, The Jungle?
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Name one primary reason for the formation of labor unions in the late 19th century?
What is improve working conditions, improve wages, and job security?
Also known as Exodusters, this group migrated west to escape racism and oppressive conditions in the South after Reconstruction
Who are African Americans?
This ethnic group played a significant role in building the western portion of the Transcontinental Railroad, often attempting the dangerous demolitions
Who are the Chinese immigrants?
Who was the oil tycoon and founder of Standard Oil, whose practices led to the creation of antitrust laws?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This term refers to journalists and writers who exposed corruption and social injustices during the Progressive Era
What are muckrakers?
This 1894 strike against the Pullman Company led to nationwide disruptions in rail service and the involvement of President Grover Cleveland.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This act, passed in 1862, offered 160 acres of land to settlers willing to farm and develop it for five years
What is the Homestead Act?
Name one negative impact the railroads had on Native American populations
What is the disruption of buffalo herds or the loss of tribal lands?
This act, passed in 1882, placed a 10-year ban on Chinese immigration into the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
The 19th Amendment, passed in 1920, granted this right to women.
What is the right to vote?
This deadly 1892 strike at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Steel Plant resulted in a major defeat for labor unions.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This school, founded by Richard H. Pratt, sought to "civilize" Native children by teaching the English, converting them to Christianity, and enforcing European-American dress and customs.
What is the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?
What is one way railroads impacted national unity in America during the 1800s?
What is creating standard time?
What are tenements?
Which journalist and photographer was known for exposing the living conditions of Immigrants in New York City through his book, How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This 1886 Chicago labor protest for an eight-hour workday turned violent when a bomb exploded, killing police officers and workers
What is the Haymarket Riot?
This act, passed in 1887, aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands.
What is the Dawes Act?
What is one way railroads impacted the economic growth of America in the 19th century?
What is creating jobs, opening new markets
What was the overall attitude towards the arrival of New Immigrants to the United States in the 19th century?
What is "bad"? What is "fearful?" What is "hateful?" What is "discriminated?"
What 1911 disaster in a New York City garment factory led to widespread labor reform?
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
This 1914 massacre protesting against low wages and unsafe working conditions turned deadly when Colorado National Guardsmen set fire to the tent colony established by the coal miners.
What is the Ludlow Massacre?