Westward Expansion
The belief that the United States needed to expand its borders to the Pacific and beyond.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These people control enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of its community by recruiting immigrants. They do this using money or jobs.
What is a Political Machine?
This political party endorsed the coinage of silver to improve the financial situations of debtors.
What is the Populist party?
The expansion of factory and commercial enterprises during the Gilded Age led to the development of what social structure.
What is the middle class?
California, 1848.
When was the California Gold Rush?
A group of companies were controlled by a single managing board. These corporations dominated economics during this time.
What is a Trust?
This political party worked to secure civil rights for black people in the south during Reconstruction.
What is the Republican party?
This law passed in 1882 restricted immigration from China for ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The idea that the wealthy had a responsibility to distribute their wealth in society for the greater good.
What is the Social Gospel?
$15,000,000 purchase in 1803.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Founder of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This president helped with civil service reform.
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
This act took land away from Indians and resulted in the breakup of tribal connections.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This set of laws granted these rights to African Americans: the right to marry, own property, and sue in court.
What are the Black Codes?
People could pay small amounts of money for lots of land.
What is the Homestead Act?
A theory that societies evolved by a natural process through which most fit members survived and demonstrated their fitness by gather property, wealth, and social status.
What is Social Darwinism?
Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities.
What is a political machine?
The region in America in which Irish immigrants settled during the Great Famine.
Where is the East Coast?
Groups who believed that those that were rich were rich and those that were poor were poor due to the natural selection of the social class and society most likely believed in which economic policy.
What is Laissez-faire economics?
A system created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle.
What was the Reservations System?
An organization that represents the rights and interests of workers to their employers in order to improve working conditions or wages.
What is a Labor Union?
Befriended the president to acquire information about upcoming gold sales ultimately undermining the credibility of Ulysses S. Grant.
Who are Fisk and Gould?
This group was formed to urge voters to advocate for stronger immigration laws because they feared Catholics having too much power.
What is the American Protection Association?
Social Darwinism had roots in which of the following social movements that targeted women, minorities, and immigrants throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
What is eugenics?