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Who were the exodusters?
Black Americans settling out west to escape racial violence/persecution
This is the name of a settler's natural residence.
A type of farm that is owned by a large corporation.
Bonanza farm
This is who coined the term, "The Gilded Age"
Mark Twain
What does it mean if something is Gilded?
Thin layer of gold on the outside, hiding an ugly inside.
Name one railroad company.
Union Pacific, Central Pacific
Robber Baron of the oil industry
Rockefeller
Robber Baron of steel.
Andrew Carnegie
This invention made it difficult for cowboys to do their job transporting cattle.
Barbed wire
Explain the spoils system
"To the victor go the spoils"
People in power should be allowed to give jobs to whoever they want.
This president was assassinated for being staunchly opposed to the spoils system.
Garfield.
What piece of legislation was a direct result of an assassination of the president?
Pendleton Civil Service Act
This person assassinated a president who was against the spoils system.
Charlies Guiteau
What's significant about the Bessemer Proecess?
Name both immigration processing centers and where those immigrants typically came from for both.
Asia- Angel Island (West Coast)
Europe- Ellis Island (East Coast)
Define Nativism
Political ideology that prioritizes native born citizens. Anti-immigration.
Legislation that barred Chinese from coming to work in the US.
Chinese Exclusion Act.
What's the argument for the term "robber baron"?
The titans of industry didn't get to their status fairly, they exploit their workers and pay low wages to keep their pockets filled.
What's the argument for the term "Captains of Industry"?
Without these titans of industry, the second industrial revolution wouldn't have happened, these men brought modern business ideologies to the US. Paved the way for the future of US industry.
Made US an industrial superpower.
A style of reporting that sensationalizes events, prioritizes selling papers over truth.
Yellow journalism.
This is a volunteer cavalry led by Teddy Roosevelt.
Rough Riders
Who coined the term, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" and what does it mean?
Negotiating peacefully with an undertone of credible threatening force.
What was the purpose of the Boxer Rebellion?
Boxers- Chinese organization that wanted to keep western countries out of China
Explain the insular cases.
Supreme court ruling that Puerto Rico and Cuba are not states or territories, but subjects and the citizens don't have the American rights.
Filipino war hero who fought against Spain with the US, but then fought the US after that.
Emilio Aguinaldo