West Expansion
Encouraged The Building Of Railroads to connect mines to factories back East
What is Mining?
The war lasted about 4 years and ended when General Robert E. Lee (confederate) surrendered to General Ulysses Grant (Union) in April 1865.
What is the Civil War?
The worst accommodations on the ship. Located on the lower decks with no private cabins.
What is Steerage?
The movement to increase farmers’ political power to work to pass laws in their interest.
What is Populism?
1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A town that had rapid economic growth, most likely after a finding of minerals.
What is Boom Towns?
Abolished Slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
A tendency towards preferring native-born, white Americans over “new” immigrants.
What is Nativism?
An organization of farmers fighting for reform.
What is Grange?
The law that gave 160 acres of land to persons willing to live on and cultivate it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
They never received their annuities which lead to extreme poverty on the reservations
What is Native Americans: Dakota Sioux Uprising?
Fee African Americans had to pay in order to vote
What is Poll Taxes?
A processing Center for Chinese immigrants, opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910.
What is the Angel Island?
Supreme Court uphold the State’s regulation of railroads for the benefit of consumers and businesses
What is Munn v. Illinois (1877)?
A civil war is fought within a country.
What is Union vs. Confederacy?
The American Army Was tricked into an ambush that killed an entire military unit.
What is Red Cloud’s War?
Granted African American Men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
The Station that where immigrants had to go to get a physical examination and met with a government inspector
What is Ellis Island?
Supreme Court decision that severely limited the rights of states to control interstate commerce. It lead to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
What is Wabash v. Illinois (1886)?
The party’s platform endorsed labor unions, decried long work hours, and championed the graduated income tax as a way to redistribute wealth from business to farmers and laborers.
What is Populist?
This massacre happened after troops were ordered to attack the Cheyenne tribe as they were waiting to surrender for peace.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
Unable to vote
What is Disenfranchisement?
Western and Northern Europe Africa (England, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, and Netherlands)
What is the Old Immigrants?
Another word for Farmers
What is Agrarian?
The God given right for the United States to acquire all lands from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans (“Sea to Shining Sea”)
What is Manifest Destiny?