--Free or cheap land
--growth of railroads
--discovery of gold, silver and copper
What are factors that encouraged settlement of the West in the late 1800's.
100
New industries that grew powerful by controlling resources and production.
What are the steel and oil industries?
100
An organization of craft unions focused on improving wages and working conditions
What is Samuel Gompers's American Federation of Labor???
100
An idea that the rich should distribute their wealth to benefit the poor.
What is the "Gospel of Wealth?"
100
January 23rd
What is the last day to turn in graded work for the Quarter?
200
Legislation that encouraged settlement of the West in the late 1800s.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
One way the development of railroads influenced modern business practices.
What is issuing stocks and bonds?
200
Railroads, telegraphs, mass production, electrification, and telephones
What are examples of innovation in technology?
200
An organization formed to help workers address working conditions and wages
What is a union?
200
The place in your course where you can find study guides and summary guides to prepare for Unit Tests.
What is Doc Sharing?
300
They were forced off their land, died from diseases, and had their way of life eliminated.
Who are the Native Americans?
300
A law passed to eliminate trusts, monopolies, or any agreement that restrained trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Law?
300
Ports where nineteenth-century immigrants were processed prior to entry into the United States
What are Angel and Ellis Islands?
300
Many immigrant groups faced discrimination, threats, and violence from this group of people who saw their cultural and religious traditions as suspicious and un-American
Who are nativists?
300
The place in your course where you turn in homework assignments by uploading files from your computer.
What is the Dropbox?
400
This began on the open ranges of Texas with cowboys herding longhorn cattle. After rail lines were extended into Kansas, they moved their livestock on cattle drives to the new railheads of Abilene and Dodge City
What is cattle ranching?
400
Industrial "giant" of the steel-making industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
A union that offered alternatives such as seeking ownership of the means of production and the formation of one large union for all workers
What is the Industrial Workers of the World or the "Wobblies?"
400
Purchase of all companies at all levels of production; purchase of all competing companies in an industry.
What are vertical and horizontal integration?
400
The guided notes that accompany almost every lesson in the U.S. History course. These guided notes prepare you for every quiz and Unit Test in the course.
What is a Reading Guide?
500
Discovered in the 1890s in California, Kansas, Texas, and Indian Territory, and supplied industry and transportation with fuel and lubricants
What is oil?
500
Favored the minimal regulation offered by a laissez-faire economy that affected both blue- and white-collar workers
What are capitalists?
500
The decline of small farms in Europe, famine, and religious persecution; and the knowledge that the United States had abundant work, cheap food and land, and political tolerance of religious minorities.
What are "push" and "pull" factors?
500
A single company controlling the making and selling of a product
What is a monopoly?
500
Showing appreciation for opportunities and people in your life.