Westward Expansion
The football team the San Francisco 49's refer to this historical event
The California Gold Rush
Where is Ellis Island? Where is Angel Island?
Ellis Island - New York
Angel Island - San Francisco
Name at least two labor unions from the Labor Movement
National Labor Union (NLU)
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Colored National Labor Union (CNLU)
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Define urbanization
The mass movement of people to cities for economic opportunity
Major figure associated with the expansion of the transcontinental railroad to include regional railways connecting New York to the midwest
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Answers may vary but could include:
Disease, dangerous weather, lack of food, thieves, etc.
Define assimilation
Process through which a minority group or culture adopts the ideas, customs, and cultural norms of the dominant culture.
Give an example of horizontal integrations
Answers will vary
Mass transit
Who were exodusters?
African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to the West - mostly Kansas.
What happened at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890?
As many as 300 Sioux tribe Native Americans were slaughtered and left to freeze. Shortly before this Sioux leader Sitting Bull was killed by U.S. military leaders.
How long did the Chinese Exclusion Act last for?
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882 by Congress and was not lifted until 1943.
Name as many of the inventors and what they invented that we've discussed in class or that you've read about. Team with the most correct answers gets the points.
Edwin L. Drake - Steam Engine to drill for oil
Thomas Edison - light bulb
Lewis Lattimer - carbon filament
Christopher Sholes - inventor of the typewriter
Alexander Graham Bell - telephone
George Pullman - sleeping car for railroad
What was the Americanization Movement and why was it relevant in cities?
The Americanization Movement was a program to assimilate people of wide ranging cultures into American culture and was relevant in cities because of the large number of immigrants settling in cities.
Best knock knock joke you can think of
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What was the Homestead Act? Was it successful?
Act that offered free land to western settlers by giving 160 acres of land to anyone who would build a home, make improvements, and farm the land for five years.
Yes, by 1900 600,000 settlers lived on this free land in the Great Plains
What is the difference between the idea of the U.S. as a melting pot and the ideas held by nativists?
People who support the idea of the U.S. being a melting pot believe in the potential of immigration to improve society by looking at the mixing of cultures and races to be what makes society better. Nativists show obvious favoritism towards "native-born" European Americans and racist beliefs towards immigrants.
Name the three main "Titans of Industry" who had monopolies over their industry and what industry they had full control over during the Gilded Age.
Andrew Carnegie - Steel
John D. Rockefeller - Oil
J.P. Morgan - Banking
Daily Double!!!!
Explain social stratification and social mobility.
The organization of people into social classes based upon wealth is social stratification.
Social mobility is the ability for families or individuals to move into a higher social class.
Draw an image that represents the idea of laissez-faire economics
Answers will vary but should somehow show business existing without government intervention
Explain the idea of manifest destiny and criticisms of it.
Manifest destiny was the the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Criticisms of manifest destiny usually discuss the unfair and cruel treatment of Native Americans by white settlers and the U.S. government which occurred while taking Native American lands through religious justification.
What are some of the push and pull factors that encouraged immigration to the United States during the Gilded Age?
Answers may vary but could include:
Push Factors: lack of economic opportunity, unfair government or inequality, natural or environmental events etc.
Pull Factors: new jobs and economic opportunity, a fresh start or new beginning, ideas of freedom and equality (though it could be debated which immigrants enjoyed those rights)
What were some of the impacts of the transcontinental railroad?
Long distance travel
Economic/trade benefits
Jobs for Chinese and Irish immigrants - though underpaid and unsafe
Creation of time zones
What were some of the problems that arose during urbanization?
Answers will vary but could include issues of space (tenement housing), sanitation issues, social tensions or crime
Give an example of how politics during the Gilded Age was filled with scandal and corruption. Be sure to use at least one vocabulary term in your answer.
Answers may vary but could include discussion of:
Political Machine, patronage, graft or illegal activity in elections