Early America
This protects your right to freedom of religion, assembly, press, petition, and speech.
What is the 1st amendment?
He created the light bulb and electrical power.
Who is Thomas Edison?
land that was not yet settled.
What is the American Frontier?
Why did Irish immigrants come to the US?
Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.
What is the Gilded Age?
Serving on juries • Staying informed • Voting in elections • Paying taxes • Lobbying for beliefs
What are your civic responsibilities?
This connected the east and west and created new markets.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Gave Americans 160 acres to settle in the Great Plains. They had to live there for at least 5 years, build a house, and farm the land.
What is the Homestead Act?
famine
disease
lack of economic opportunity
political and religious persecution
What are push factors for immigrants?
Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s
What are political machines?
This statement on U.S. coins and bills; distinguishes the United States from other nations that restrict religious practices.
What is "In God We Trust"?
Mass migration to cities for jobs.
What is urbanization?
passed to encourage American Indians to assimilate to U.S. culture
What is the Dawes Act?
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers.
What is nativism?
Rockefeller's Company that dominated the Oil industry
What is Standard Oil Company?
no unreasonable search and seizure & due process and no self incrimination.
What is the 4th and 5th amendment?
Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories
What are tenements?
the United States encouraged hunters to slaughter this animal, the Natives’ major food supply.
What are buffalo?
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
allowed the U.S. government to break up monopolies if they impeded competition
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The document stated that the new country’s government would be based on the consent of the governed, reflecting the idea that government power comes from the will of the people.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This technique allowed for the mass production of stronger, cheaper steel, which aided in skyscraper, railroad, and bridge construction
What is the Bessemer Steel Process?
series of conflicts between American Indian tribes and the U.S. government fueled by land disputes and cultural differences.
What are the Indian Wars?
This was the primary reason people moved to the cities
What is employment or jobs?
This "you-scratch-my-back" system often resulted in very unqualified people getting high level government jobs
What is a spoils system?