Founding
Valuable port city on Mississippi River acquired in Louisiana Purchase.
What is New Orleans?
Most important transportation for westward expansion.
What are railroads?
A corporation with no competitors.
What is a monopoly?
Also: trust
Rapid growth of cities due to the arrival of immigrants and farmers.
What is urbanization?
Guarantees women's suffrage (voting).
What is the 19th Amendment?
Our very indirect method of electing president.
What is the Electoral College?
Places Native Americans were forced to live after Americans stole their land.
What are reservations?
When employees protest by refusing to work.
What is a strike?
Overcrowded and unsanitary buildings where immigrants lived.
What are tenements?
Muckraker who investigated meat industry in The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Founding Father who would have loved the Federal Reserve.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Places created to forcefully assimilate Native American children.
What are Indian Boarding Schools?
Also: Carlisle Indian School
French for "hands-off", meaning gov is NOT regulating business.
What is laissez-faire?
People who opposed immigrants, especially Catholics.
Who are nativists?
Also: Know Nothing Party
Established direct election of senators.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
Constitutional compromise over slavery and representation.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
Political party created by farmers to oppose railroads and support gold standard.
What is the Populist Party?
Term for using federal power to increase competition by destroying monopolies.
What is trustbusting?
Also: Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Progressive founder of Hull House.
Who is Jane Addams?
Citizens write laws and voters pass laws.
Initiatives
Referendums
First Chief Justice of Supreme Court who greatly expanded federal power.
Who is John Marshall?
Created modern reservations and forced Native Americans to be U.S. citizens.
What is the Dawes Act?
Supreme Court decision allowing Teddy to use Sherman Anti-Trust Act to bust railway monopoly.
What is Northern Securities v. United States (1904)?
Diverse immigrant wave from Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and China.
What are Second Wave immigrants?
Central bank of U.S., controls national interest rates.
What is the Federal Reserve?