Westward Ho!
Which group provided most of the labor in the construction of the transcontinental railroad?
Who were the Chinese?
This man amassed wealth in the railroad industry during the Gilded Age and was nicknamed "the Commodore"
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This is the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
What is Social Darwinism?
This is where people from rural areas where moving to in the late nineteenth century.
What were towns/cities/urban areas?
This act provided that federal government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that government employees be selected through competitive exams.
What was the Civil Service Act?
This is the year that gold was discovered in California.
What is 1848?
This man led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This is the name of the series of violent rail strikes across the United States in 1877.
What was the Great Railroad Strike?
In 1873, more than 95% percent of immigrants traveled to the U.S. via this mode of transportation?
What was steam ships?
This was the first regulatory commission in U.S. history, was established as a result of mounting public indignation in the 1880s against railroad malpractices and abuses.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
This is the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
This man was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.
Who was John Rockefeller?
This was the first important national labour organization in the United States, founded in 1869.
Who were/What was the Knights of Labor?
This is the name of the Gilded Age immigrants who came from primarily southern & eastern Europe.
What is the "new immigrants"?
This was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This is the name of the tax that was levied against mainly Chinese miners during the Gold Rush.
What is the Foreign Miner's Tax?
This is the combination of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.
What is vertical integration?
This was a violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
What was the Haymarket Affair?
This is the name of the U.S. federal law that was the first and only major federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration for a specific nationality.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This is the name of a place of work where membership in a union is a condition for being hired and for continued employment.
What is a "closed shop"?
This is the name of the act that railroads and wealthy farmers took advantage of to acquire land in the 1860s.
What was the Homestead Act?
This is an expansion strategy adopted by a company that involves the acquisition of another company in the same business line.
What is horizontal expansion?
This institution accepted the notion that liberty of contract was an enforceable constitutional right under the due process clause.
What is the Supreme Court?
This group was established in 1894 to press for laws to check the burgeoning influxes of immigrants.
What was the Immigration Restriction League?
This is a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
What is laissez-faire?