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The belief that Americans had a divine right to expand west.
What is manifest destiny?
A company that controls an entire industry and has NO competition whatsoever.
What is a monopoly?
Immigration law that outlawed a specific migrant group from entering the US.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Overcrowded, poorly built apartment buildings.
What are tenement houses?
Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public
Who are the muckrakers?
Built by Chinese and Mexican immigrants to create a route of travel across the US.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is laissez-faire?
The places in which immigrants were processed along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
What are Ellis and Angel Island?
Published How the Other Half Lives to expose conditions in tenement houses.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Written by Upton Sinclair to expose the meatpacking industry in Chicago
What is The Jungle?
The animal sacred to Natives but hunted by Western travelers often for sport.
What are the buffalo?
The cheap and effective way to create steel brought to the US by Andrew Carnegie.
What is the Bessemer process?
Hostile movement toward immigrants that was motivated by job competition and religious bias.
What is nativism?
Party organizations that controlled cities through political appointments, government contracts, and delivering votes.
What are political machines?
Effort by Teddy Roosevelt to break up monopolies and conglomerates
What is trust-busting?
The law that gave 160 acres of land to people who would move and cultivate land in the West.
What is the Homestead Act (1862)?
Law that attempted to outlaw monopolies but was too vague to truly work.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)?
Areas in a city in which immigrant groups cluster to gain cultural support and community.
What are ghettos/ethnic enclaves?
A settlement house created by Jane Addams to give aid to the poor.
What is Hull House?
Leader of the NWP who went to jail for picketing outside the White House who then went on a hunger strike
Who is Alice Paul?
The school created to assimilate Native American children and strip them of their heritage.
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
Strike that shut down mail delivery and was led by Eugene Debs and the American Railway Union.
What is the Pullman Strike?
Region that the "new immigrants" came from after the 1880s.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
Political machine run by Boss Tweed in New York.
What is Tammany Hall?
Amendment that allowed for the direct election of US senators
What is the 17th Amendment?