Gilded Age
Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah by Union Pacific and Central Pacific. Made possible by new steel technologies.
Transcontinental Railroad
Passed by Congress, it was one of three laws that attempted to solve the increasing immigration problem. By this law, immigrants had to be examined, and all convicts, polygamists, prostitutes, anarchists, persons suffering from loathsome or contagious diseases, and persons liable to become public disturbances and problems were all excluded form the U.S.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This president supported American expansionism
Willliam McKinley
The treaty of Paris garunteed the U.S. rights to the territories of Guam, ______________, Cuba, and the Phillipines.
Puerto Rico
Farmer-based political system that supported free coinage of silver, work reforms, government ownership of railroads, telegraph, and telephone systems, and voter election of U.S. senators.
Populism
Political Leader of NYC's "Democratic Machine." Corrupt in spending tax dollars. Benefit voters for votes and politicians for graft/greed.
Boss Tweed
Created by the Bureau of Immigration in 1892, this was an immigrant reception center off of the New Jersey coast a mile south of Manhattan
Ellis Island
First discovered by Captain Cook, this territory would later be annexed by the United States in 1893.
Hawaii
The agreement between the U.S. and Cuba promising aid before the Spanish American War began, later broken by U.S.
Teller Amendment
Passed in 1883, an Act that created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage
Pendleton Act
1892 steelworker strike near Pittsburgh against the Carnegie Steel Company's wage cuts. Ten workers were killed in a riot when "scab" labor was brought in to force an end to the strike.
Homestead Stroke
City dwellers begin migrating here to escape the "immoral" cities
Suburbs
William Howard Taft, later President of the United States, first gained popularity as the appointed governor general of this nation.
The "Rough Riders" were lead by this man at the Battle of San Juan Hill
Teddy Roosevelt
6 or 7 story houses built on narrow lots, unsafe and unsanitary housing for poor city residents.
tenement housing
July 2, 1890. Finally banned monopolies in businesses.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Working class delighted in this type of music, which originated in 1880s in saloons and brothels.
Ragtime
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Yellow Journalism
A movement in the 1870s that inisisted that true Christianity commits men and women to fight social injustice where it exists.
Social Gospel
Mugwumps
economic reasons, rising populations, industrial revolution, local craftsmen competition, political and religious persecution.
Push & Pull Factors
Critics of overseas expansion formed this group which criticized the "empire" of America
Anti-Imperialist League
Attached an army appropriations bill, authorized American withdrawal only after agreement to not make treaties with foreign powers, reserved the right of the U.S. to interevene at anytime, ensured the lease of Gauntanamo Bay.
Platt Amendment
She wrote "The American Woman's Home" which displayed the typical Victorian self-consciouness about proper manners in 1869.
Catharine Beecher