Industrialization
This fuel source powered the industrial growth of the United States
What is coal?
Monopolies, trusts, and the boom and bust cycles of the economy hit this group of workers especially hard.
What are farmers?
Low wages forced many of these people to have to work instead of getting an education
What are children?
These types of residences were typically populated by immigrants, and at times had several families living in unsafe, cramped spaces.
What are tenements?
The name for the neighborhoods populated by African Americans in urban areas
What are ghettos?
The exploitation of workers by large corporations gave rise to these organizations
What are labor unions?
This technology accelerated Western expansion and moved goods and people across the United States
This is the most famous institution dedicated to the "Americanization" of Native Americans.
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
The growth of American consumer and media culture in the Gilded Age led to the development of this type of media, which specialized in sensationalized or exaggerated stories
What is Yellow Journalism?
The name for neighborhoods populated by migrants from South and Central America in the Gilded Age
What are barrios?
The name for industrial capitalists who monopolized industries and became fabulously wealthy during the Gilded Age.
What are robber barons?
The Southern United States began to resemble the North during the late 19th century by adopting this type of infrastructure
What are factories?
This Supreme Court case legalized race-based segregation in the United States
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
The growth of cities in the late 19th century led to the rise of these organizations, which were typically corrupt and had significant influence over all city life.
What are political machines?
Among other things, tese organizations provided support to immigrants and helped them acclimate to life in America. Jane Addams' one in Chicago is the most famous
What are settlement houses?
What is Social Darwinism
These types of organizations helped people of the frontier cope with financial hardship in the West
What are granges?
The growth of labor unions and protests over wages and working conditions sometimes grew violent, as it did in both of these incidents, although you only have to name one.
What are the Pullman Strike and the Haymarket Riot
What is the middle class
The two regions of Europe where the majority of immigrants to United States originated during the late 19th century.
What are Southern Europe and Eastern Europe
The economic philosophy that says market efficiency comes from the government having no part in the regulation of businesses.
What is laissez faire?
This legislation allowed Americans to acquire government-owned land and accelerated the movement of people and growth of the West
What are the Homestead Acts?
This legislation granted Native Americans citizenship (even though most didn't want it) and divided up native land among tribal members (even though this went against their traditional methods of land use).
What is the Dawes Act?
New opportunities for women in the workforce and advances in hygiene led to a decrease in these two things, but you only have to name one.
What are birth rate or marriage rate?
The two regions of the United States where most immigrants settled
What are the Northeast and Midwest?