Westward Movment
Industrialization
Urban America
Politics and Reform
Vocabulary
100
Stay cattle without a brand.
What is a Maverick?
100
Period of invention after the Civil War that set the stage for great industrial growth.
What is Industrialization?
100
Another name for tenement housing.
What is ghetto?
100
President killed over the spoils system.
What is President Garfield?
100
Political jobs for political friends for political loyalty.
What is the spoils system?
200
Native American could own land as long as it was on Reservation Land.
What is the Dawes Act?
200
Introduced in Richmond, Virginia in 1888.
What is the electrict trolley
200
Louis Sullivan is known for building these in the 1800s.
What are skyscrapers?
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
Found in Nevada in 1859.
What is Comstock Lode?
300
Who was one of the most successful business leaders and industrialists in the late 1800's.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
Scott Joplin is most known as
Who is the King of Ragtime?
300
Group that launched harsh attacks on monopolies.
What is the Farmers Alliance?
300
The use of machines to increase wheat harvest and profits.
What is Bonanza Farming?
400
Showed that the white westward settlers were hostile to Natives.
What is Fetterman's Massacre?
400
1892 steel strike that turned bloody
What is the Homestead Strike?
400
Term coined by Mark Twain describing the post reconstruction era.
What is the Gilded Age?
400
Act which classified government jobs and tested applicants fitness for them.
What is the Civil Service Act?
400
When production increases and the cost of each item decreases.
What is economies of scale?
500
He waved both the white and American Flag but was killed anyway.
Who is Chief Black Kettle?
500
Outlawed any combination of companies that restrained interstate commerce.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
Created devastation in the inner city due to overcrowding and lack of technology and sanitation.
What are diseases?
500
Era when America saw the need for great change and turned to the politicians, authors, and the middle class citizens to make it happen.
What is the Progressive or T. Roosevelt Era?
500
Gaining control of many different businesses that make up all phases of product development.
What is vertical consolidation?
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