The American West
This act broke up tribal land into allotments during the early 1900's
Dawes Act
This east coast island was the main entry point for European Immigrants during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Ellis Island
This inventor created the lightbulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera in his industrial research and development laboratory
Thomas Edison
This Supreme Court case created the "separate but equal" doctrine that would be in place for nearly 60 years.
Plessy v. Ferguson
A muckraker whose investigative journalism and thorough documentation exposed Rockefellers' Standard Oil Company's monopolistic practices and how they eliminated competition.
Ida Tarbell
This act gave settlers free land in the Western territories, displacing Native American tribes.
The Homestead Act of 1862
This act, passed by congress in 1882 essentially banned Chinese immigration from 1882 to 1943
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
This book written by industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who was known for exploiting his workers, justified immense wealth so long as the wealthy were philanthropic.
The Gospel of Wealth
This farmers movement that utilized cooperatives, advocated for regulated railroad and grain storage rates.
The Granger movement
This gilded age reformer created settlement houses, such as Hull House, that provided education, childcare, shelter, and food to immigrants and poor urban citizens
Jane Addams
This process was used to force "civilized" behaviors on Native Americans using education, religious conversion, and land allotments
Assimilation
This act passed by congress in 1924 established a quota system for immigration that was based on nationality, that heavily favored Northern and Western European immigrants.
The Immigration Act of 1824
This new process mass produced high quality steel cheaply, enabling the construction of skyscraper, bridges, and railroads on a larger scale.
The Bessemer Process
A protestant Christian movement that emphasized applying Christian principles to solve social problems, such as poverty, inequality, and injustice.
The Social Gospel Movement
A muckraker who exposed the meat packing industries unsanitary practices and exploitation of workers in his novel "The Jungle", leading to the creating of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Upton Sinclair
Native American children were forced into these institutions to assimilate to European American ways of life
This political ideology emerged as a response to new wave of immigration, leading American citizens to fear and distrust immigrants, because of fear of job competition, wage depression, and cultural and religious differences.
Nativism
When one company controls and entire industry it is a
Monopoly
Investigative journalists who exposed societal problems and reveal corruption and injustice.
Muckrakers
This industry robber baron controlled 90% of the oil refining in America, creating a monopoly, and used his fortune to fund medical research and public health initatives
John D. Rockefeller
Policy implemented in 1869 to reform Indian policy, with an aim to avoid military conflict and promote assimilation
Grants peace policy
These programs helped immigrants learn English and American customs, promoting assimilation
Americanization Programs
Vertical
A labor organization led by Samuel Gompers that focused on "bread and butter" issues rather than radical politics.
The American Federation of Labor
This labor leader, who championed workers rights and free speech, was arrested in connection of the Pull Strike, co-founded the Socialist Party of America, and ran for president 5 times, once while imprisoned
Eugene V. Debs