Westward Movement
Industrialization
Urban America
Politics and Reform
Vocabulary
100
The use of machines to increase wheat harvest and profits.
What is Bonanza Farming?
100
Organization of workers from all crafts in a given industry.
What is industrial union?
100
Became centers for the Americanization Process.
What are schools?
100
Journalists who uncover wrong doing in politics and business.
What is a muckraker?
100
Political jobs for political friends for political loyalty.
What is the spoils system?
200
Cattle that was not branded.
What are mavericks?
200
Gaining control of many different businesses that make up all phases of product development.
What is vertical consolidation?
200
Created devastation in the inner city due to overcrowding, lack of technology, and sanitation.
What are diseases?
200
Created by Booker T. Washington in 1881.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
200
Belief that the US was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea".
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
Settlement of the Great Plains. $10= 160 acres if they lived on and improved it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
The belief that society should do as little as possible to interfere with people's pursuit of success.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
Low cost apartment building with poor sanitation, safety, and comfort, designed to house as many families as possible.
What is tenement housing or ghettos?
300
Book written by Upton Sinclair, about the horrors for the meat packing industry.
What is the "Jungle"?
300
Cause for the need for civil service reform in the Gilded Age.
What is political corruption?
400
Waved both the white flad and the American flag, but was killed anyway.
Who is Chief Black Kettle?
400
Economic and political philosophy that favors public instead of private control of the means of production.
What is socialism?
400
Was first made in Richmond, Virginia in 1888.
What is the electric trolley?
400
Age characterized by new American Indian Policies, Rise of Political Machines, and growth of Industrialization.
What is the Gilded Age?
400
Increase individual mobility and created jobs in the early 20th century.
What is the automobile?
500
To assimilate the red world into the white world by giving them 160 acres or less.
What is the Dawes Act?
500
Law passed by congress in 1890 that outlawed any combination of companies that restrained interstate trade or commerce.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
500
Because of the growth of cities, these features appear for the first time between 1865 and 1900s.
What are subways and skyscrapers?
500
Era in which America saw the need for great change.
What is the Progressive Era?
500
Created a 10 year moritorium on Chinese Labor Immigrants.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
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