The West
After the Civil War, the railroad helped lure many different people to the west. Who were two different ethnic groups that went west to work?
Chinese and Irish
This was a new theory that said if you couldn’t adapt to changes in business, you quickly would be out of business.
Social Darwinism
Tell two motives/reasons that workers felt the need to strike during the 1880s.
Poor working conditions and bad pay
This action puts air into iron to remove carbon to make steel.
Bessemer process
This military leader wrote a book that said "whoever controls the seas, is the most powerful nation"
Alfred T. Mahan
This was a farmer-supported organization that formed in the 1880s in an attempt to stop the railroad from doing bad deals and hurting the farmers in the west.
The Grange
Big businesses that control production, wages and prices are called a
Monopoly
This was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the U.S. Midwest in June–July 1894. ... Grover Cleveland used federal troops to end the strike.
Pullman Strike
The person who is given credit for inventing the light bulb. He also started the first research laboratory.
Thomas Edison
This style of journalism/writing attempted to quickly capture the readers' attention with sensational headlines and emotional stories intended to provoke/get a response from the reader.
Yellow journalism
This government program gave 160 acres of land to white settlers provided they live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee.
Homestead Act
This idea said the wealthy were “chosen by God” to be successful and therefore responsible to look out for the well-being of those less fortunate.
Gospel of wealth
This man helped found the American Federation of Labor (AFL) during the 1880s. Under his leadership, the AFL helped fight for collective bargaining, better wages, and safer conditions.
Samuel Gompers
This Supreme Court decision said that states’ had a right to regulate all railroad activity. It also set the principle that the federal government can control private industry.
Munn V Illinois
Between 1870–1920, nearly 20 million immigrants came to America. Tell two of the reasons they left Europe and Asia to come here?
New Opportunity & Famine, or social unrest
This Native American conflict resulted in the death of a famous Union Civil War General in 1876. IN response, A large military force was sent West to exterminate the Native Americans in the region.
Battle of Little Big Horn
Term used to describe the tumultuous years between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century?
Gilded Age
This event occurred on May 4, 1886, when a labor protest rally turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.
Haymarket Riot
He was the industrialist who made a fortune in steel in the late 1800s, As a philanthropist, he gave away some $350 million
Andrew Carnegie
William Seward purchased Alaska in 1867. What was one of the negative nicknames people called his supposed mistake?
Seward's icebox or Sewards folly
This government-sponsored program attempted to "Americanize" Native Americans by giving them religion and educational opportunities.
Dawes Act
A _________________ is an organized group that controls the city political party
Political machine
A law outlawing a combination of companies that restrained interstate trade or commerce; important to prevent monopolies.
Sherman Antitrust law
He was the founder of Standard Oil.
John D Rockerfeller
During the late 19th century, the idea was that the United States had a special mission to uplift "backward" people around the world.
White Man's burden