Word Origins
Settling the West
Industrialization
Immigration and Urbanization
What Remains
100
An organization owned by many people, such as stockholders, who share the rewards and the risks of the business. For legal protection, it treated by law as though it were a single person.
What is a corporation?
100
This simple method of extracting mineral ore is done by hand with tools such as picks, shovels, and pans.
What is placer mining?
100
THis is the most famous inventor of the late 1800s. He made the phonograph (an early type of record player), light bulb, electric engine, battery, and motion pictures (movies).
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Created at the height of American prejudice in the 1880s, this act barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese individuals living in the United States from gaining citizenship.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
This Scottish immigrant rose from a small job at a textile factory to owner of a steel company, becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. His family name is very influential in the East today.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
From the French, meaning ‘let do’. This business idea proposes that government should not interfere with the economy except in very specific and limited ways.
What is Laissez-faire?
200
This vast central region of the United States extends from the Dakotas to Texas.
What is the Great Plains?
200
People who risk their capital, whether it is money, land, or other material, in organizing and running a business
What are entrepreneurs?
200
This is a preference for native-born people and often is expressed as a desire to limit immigration.
What is nativism?
200
This mode of transportation helped settle the West in several ways. As more were built, it became easier to travel west. In addition, many towns could get supplies from California or the East, allowing more people to live in the same area.
What are railroads?
300
When a single company achieves control of an entire market. Also, a popular game.
What is a monopoly?
300
This chief of the Lakota Sioux resisted being forced onto reservations. He became most famous for being present at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where General George Armstrong Custer and the United States 7th Cavalry were killed by a much larger Indian force.
Who is Sitting Bull?
300
This is when a company owns all of the different businesses on which it depends for it’s operation to make sure they always have what they need to run their company. For example, a meat-packing company might own the cows, the slaughterhouse, and the wagons to distribute the meat.
What is vertical integration?
300
This island in New York Harbor is where European immigrants were examined and processed. Over a 60 year timespan, over 10 million immigrants passed through here.
What is Ellis Island?
300
Total value of all goods and services produced by a country.
What is Gross National Product?
400
This Native American ritual celebrated a hoped-for day of reckoning in which the whites were destroyed and the Native Americans were returned to their rightful lands.
What is the Ghost Dance?
400
This act was passed in 1862 to encourage settlement of the Great Plains. For $10, a farmer bought up to 160 acres, and after 5 years of farming, they could receive the title to the land.
What is the Homestead Act?
400
A large union led by Samuel Gompers. It had simple goals to make unionism safe and possible.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
400
These multi-family apartments were often dark and crowded. Many immigrants ended up living in these because they could not afford anything better.
What is a tenement?
400
This is a negative aspect or condition that motivates one to leave a city, country, or other place of residence.
What is a push factor?
500
To absorb a group into the culture of a larger population
What is assimilation?
500
After the Indian Peace Commission created two large reservations for Native Americans that was based on common ownership, this act divided Native American reservations into individual allotments, which could then be farmed or sold as the owner decided.
What is the Dawes Act?
500
This philosphy suggests that workers would revolt because of class struggle, seize control of factories, and overthrow the government to create a new society where class did not exist.
What is Marxism?
500
These informal political groups were designed to gain and keep power in a city. Despite frequent corruption and favoritism, they provided jobs and housing to many people.
What is a political machine?
500
This refers to a variety of methods by which money is gained through dishonest or questionable means.
What is graft?
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