Vocabulary
A refusal to work organized by employees as a form of protest.
What is a strike?
Domestic terrorist group who inflicted violence on black Southerners in an effort to intimidate them and influence elections.
By 1849, hundreds of thousands of white settlers migrated to California in search for this valuable object.
What is gold?
This term is used to describe how after his retirement, Andrew Carnegie donated most of his money to establish libraries, schools, and universities, as well as a pension fund for former employees.
What is a Captain of Industry?
It is the job of Christians to help the less fortunate out and end systematic issues that create poverty and inequality.
What is Social Gospel?
The process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
What is Urbanization?
Two years before the end of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves (kinda) with this document.
Between 1869 and the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were removed from their homes and families and placed in ________________________.
What are (Native American) boarding schools?
This term is used to describe how J.D. Rockefeller often resorted to using spies and extortion to influence railroads to work in his favor by offering rebates that were denied to his competitors.
What is a Robber Baron?
To be successful, you have to work the hardest and be the smartest. Those who are not successful are all dumb and lazy.
What is Social Darwinism?
An individual, group, or company that dominates and controls the market for a specific good or service.
What is a monopolist?
A legal arrangement where a landowner allows a laborer to use their land in exchange for a portion of the crops grown on that land.
What is Sharecropping?
This new technological advancement in transportation led to mass migration of white settlers to the West because it cut the travel time for making the 3,000-mile journey across the United States from a matter of months to under a week.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This immigration hub in New York encouraged an average of 1,900 European immigrants to come through every day.
What is Ellis Island?
People who control who is elected in their area and make money doing it.
What are Party Bosses?
Hostility towards immigrants by native born citizens.
What is nativism?
This loophole resulted in Southern states criminalizing activities that would make it easy to imprison African Americans, and effectively force them into servitude once more.
When the government took over Native American land to give to white settlers, Native Americans were forced to move to ______________________.
What are reservations?
This immigration hub in the San Francisco bay had a lengthy process for Asian immigrants to come to America.
What is Angel Island?
A political party, usually led by one person, that controls enough votes that they have power over a city or state government.
What is a Political Machine?
An attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
What is laissez-faire?
A US government agency established in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people get access to relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This act took Native American land from tribes and provides some of it to individuals and sells the rest. Native Americans who accepted the taking of land could become American citizens.
What is the Dawes Act?
On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the first major law restricting voluntary immigration to the U.S. This act banned all immigrants from China for 10 years, prohibited Chinese immigrants from becoming American citizens, and restricted the entry and re-entry of Chinese nationals.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A system where presidents gave government offices to their friends, regardless of if they were qualified for the job or not.
What is the Spoils System?