Westward Expansion
The New South and Technology (6.4, 6.5)
Industrial Capitalism (6.6, 6.7)
Immigration and the Middle Class (6.8, 6.9, 6.10)
Reform, Government, Politics (6.11, 6.12, 6.13)
100
The Sierra Club was created by this person in order to promote the preservation of nature, unfortunately he said racist things too
John Muir
100
This court case established the principle of "separate but equal" which legalized jim crow segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
100
This is the name for when a company buys out all of its competitors, thus eliminating the competition like Rockefeller did in the oil industry
(Horizontal Integration, Standard Oil)
100
crowded, run down apartments where immigrants lived in cities were called
tenements
100
The temperance activist who used a hatchet to protest against alcohol
Carrie Nation
200
This law intended to break up the reservation system to make Native Americans into landowners and farmers, thus assimilating them into American society and integrating them into the economy
Dawes Act (1887)
200
This was the name for poor tenant farmers who rented land from a plantation owner and they had to give part of their harvest to the plantation owner
Sharecroppers
200
This famous economist wrote that the economy is most efficient when the government is "hands off" or doesn't interfere with the economy so the "invisible hand" can guide the economy
Adam Smith
200
Job opportunities in the United States that attract immigrants from other countries would be called a __________ factor for immigration
pull factor
200
These were organized groups that maintained political control through a system of patronage, bribery, and manipulation, particularly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including in New York
Political Machines
300
This law gave people 160 acres of free land as long as they agreed to farm and develop the plot for 5 years
Homestead Act of 1863
300
This inventor and scientist developed a new way to efficiently create stronger steel
Henry Bessemer
300
The Knights of Labor became associated with anarchists and violence due to this tragic event
Haymarket Bombing/Riot (1886, Chicago)
300
Anti-Immigrant groups like the American Protective Association created anti-immigrant propaganda. What is another word for being anti-immigrant?
Nativist
300
The religious idea that helping society, including helping the poor, would lead to individual salvation
Social Gospel
400
This is the name given to African-American migrants who left the South to move West to places like Kansas
Exodusters
400
This black leader famously and controversially delivered the "Atlanta Compromise" speech and was the leader of the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
400
This scandal involved Railroad companies creating a fake construction company, bribing government officials, and stealing taxpayer dollars
Credit Mobilier
400
As cities grew, wealthier and middle class people moved out of cities to these surrounding residential communities
suburbs
400
This third political party believed in expanding democracy, increasing the money supply, and taxing the rich more
Populist Party/People's Party
500
This man wrote a book in which he said the closing of the frontier was a negative turning point in American history
Frederick Jackson Turner
500
Name two examples of voter discrimination laws that were passed to stop African-Americans from voting
(poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause)
500
During this labor strike, Railroad companies attached mail cars being attached to railroad cars to convince the government to break up the strike
Pullman Strike (1894)
500
Federal Law that provided land grants to states to establish colleges and universities. Led to the creation of University of California
Morrill Act (1862, 1890)
500
This law, passed after President Garfield's assassination, made taking an exam a part of being selected for classified government jobs. It was meant to eliminate patronage.
Pendleton Act (1883)