Major Laws
Which Amendment, ratified in 1868, granted the right of citizenship to all persons born in the US?
14th Amendment
What ideology justified wealth inequality and is compared to a "survival of the fittest" mentality in business capacity?
What is Social Darwinism
What marginalized community made up a significant part of the manufacturing work force, but was excluded from the wage increase for manufacturers. (Which led to significant strikes and movements for raised wages and rights)
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What new piece of technology offered communication over vast distances?
What is the telegraph machine
Westward expansion resulted in the displacement of which marginalized community?
Native Americans
What nativist act prohibited all ____ laborers from entering the country for 10 years?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
What xenophobic belief sought to protect the interests of native born people, fearing immigrants would usurp job opportunities?
What is Nativism
What was the primary reason for farmers to revolt and form labor movements during the period of westward expansion?
What is excessive corporate control
What piece of infrastructure spanned the length of the country, making migration a viable possibility for many Americans?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
Post Civil War, completion of the _______________ enabled ranchers to sell beef at higher prices in the East, integrating ranching into the national economy.
What is the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Which Supreme court case expanded the right to birthright citizenship to people of Chinese descent?
What is the US. vs Wong Kim Clark case
What controversial (at the time) ideology opposed American systems of slavery?
What is abolitionism
What Labor movement started as social and economic support, evolved to lobbying for railroad price regulation and farmer prosperity, successfully influencing laws regulating railroads?
What is the National Grange Movement
What material was commonly used for making houses on the prairie, due to the lack of timber?
What is sod
Which animal was nearly hunted to extinction for its pelts, which were used for fashion and warmth?
What is the bison
What act broke up tribal land into individual plots, in an attempt to assimilate native Americans into white culture?
What is the Dawes Act
What prevalent belief dictated that the government should not involve themselves in business?
What is Laissez-faire belief
Which infamous movement drove the United States further towards civil war, with tactics of armed uprisings and resistance, along with moral persuasion.
What is the abolitionist movement
The _____ made it easier to transport beef across long distances, integrating ranching into other national markets.
What is the railcar
A ______ _____ is a rapidly growing settlement due to sudden economic opportunities where valuable resources are found in a place, the economy grows, supply depletes and the town empties and the town becomes a ghost town.
What is a Boom Town
Which Supreme court case upheld state regulations of railroads over corporate oversight?
What is Munn vs. Illinois!
What belief stemming from Carnegie dictated that the rich should use their wealth for philanthropy?
What is the Gospel of Wealth belief
Which 1886 movements formed by African American farmers in Texas excluded from cooperatives, worked to resist corporate control and economic Hardship
What is the Colored Farmers National Alliance and Cooperative Union
What piece of Legislation offered 160 acre plots of free land to Americans willing to move west of the Mississippi river and farm land?
What are the Homestead Acts!
Which two manual labor jobs presented as economic opportunities atttracted a large amount of immigrants?
What is mining and railroad construction