Westward Settlement
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Gilded Age
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100
This 1862 Congressional act allowed for the development of the Transcontinental Railroad, and provided subsidies for companies who participated.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
100
The discovery of a valuable mineral in 1849 prompted this mass movement, driving people to move west to get rich quick!
What is the California Gold Rush?
100
These group of natives attempted to escape the United States, but eventually ended up surrendering to the US Army only 40 miles away from the Canadian border!
Who are the Nez Perce?
100
Once you see the Statue of Liberty, that's the sign that you've made it to the United States... once you've checked in at this major migration center that opened in 1892.
What is Ellis Island?
100
Oui oui! The direct meaning of this economic concept employed by the American government during industrialization is "hands off"
What is laissez-faire?
200
This concept revolves around motivation for moving West. The government didn't tell me to go West...
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
This mass migration saw thousands of African Americans escaping the Jim Crow South to Kansas.
What is the Black Exodus?
200
This concept encourages others to adopt another culture, like when Native Americans joined the Carlisle Indian School!
What is assimilation?
200
These poorly lit apartment buildings are where many immigrants/factory workers lived while being overworked and underpaid.
What are tenements?
200
Game on! This concept describes a corporation's exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
What is monopoly?
300
This concept allows for the division between free states and slave states within the United States prior to the Civil War.
What is sectionalism?
300
Asian Americans were discriminated against and prevented from working in these jobs
What are railroads?
300
This act saw the limitation of these immigrants from coming into the United States and denial of citizenship. It wasn't fair that they were "left out".
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)?
300
This concept indicates that someone has a strong preference towards Americans, and dislike of immigrants.
What is nativism?
300
Also known as the Man of Steel, this industrialist is so influential that he wrote The Gospel of Wealth, sharing that it is the responsibility of the wealthy to support the poor, and has swung around his money so hard that he was able to have a music hall named after him.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
This group is known to be the political party for Abraham Lincoln, which supported liberal ideas during the period of Reconstruction
What is the Republican Party?
400
Ranchers utilized tools to gather these animals and bring them on trains! Then they'll ship them off to cities like New York, where they'll make 20x the profit!
What are cattle (cows)?
400
During the times of Westward Settlement, natives were forced onto these plots of land in order to allow homesteaders/exodusters to farm!
What are reservations?
400
This concept describes the reasons why immigrants move to/move away from a specific area.
What are push/pull factors?
400
Somebody call 911! This tragedy took place from the 8-10th floors of a garment factory due to owners lack of safety precautions, from having only two water pails for each floor, to locking the doors to prevent workers from taking breaks.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
500
This specifically names the individuals who moved out west to take advantage of 160 acres of free land, if they farmed and cleared it for 5 years.
What is a homesteader?
500
These individuals promoted the mass migration of thousands of African Americans to the Midwest to escape issues of the South (Name 1)
Who is Henry Adams/ Benjamin "Pap" Singleton?
500
This Congressional act allowed for the breaking up of Native American reservation land into individual land plots, which then settlers tricked natives into selling! How rude...
What is the Dawes Act?
500
So shiny! This era, given its name by Mark Twain, describes the glamour of industrialization and earning money, but also describes the dark and grimy actions seen in factories due to lack of regulation of business.
What is the Gilded Age?
500
This is evolution! This concept adopted from a geneticist describes the "survival of the fittest" and how it can apply to the working class.
What is Social Darwinism?