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Westward Expansion
Gilded Age
Immigration
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Political Machines
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This herding animal and main food for Native Americans was nearly brought to extinction in the West
What are buffalo?
100
This law, passed by the federal government, made it illegal to own or create a monopoly if you were a business. It also outlawed trusts, which was when several companies joined together to fix prices and reduce competition.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890?
100
A) European immigrants came through this immigration station in New York. B) Asian immigrants came through this immigration station in San Francisco.
A) What is Ellis Island? (Remember European - Ellis) B) What is Angel Island? (Remember Asian - Angel)
100
President Garfield was assassinated because he wouldn't give a gov't job to one of his supporters. This event lead to the passing of what law which made people who wanted to work for the federal government pass an exam to show they had merit.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
100
Political organizations, such as Tammany Hall in New York city, that would find jobs and apartments for immigrants in exchange for their votes.
What are Political Machines?
200
This law, passed by the Federal Government in Washington D.C., granted 160 acres of free land to settlers who would move to the Great Plains for 5 years and build a home there. Encouraged westward expansion.
What is The Homestead Act of 1862?
200
Negative term used to describe big businessmen who created monopolies and became rich from corrupt business practices.
What are Robber Barons?
200
Term that describes people born in America who were anti-immigrant because they felt immigrants were taking their jobs and would work for less pay.
What are nativists?
200
Term that describes crowded housing and apartments in the cities, due to rapid urbanization. Many families lived in these connected units.
What are tenements?
200
Term for illegal use of political influence for personal gain. Political machines would engage in this corruption.
What is graft?
300
The Pacific-Railway Act of 1862 gave money to complete this major construction project that connected East to West and opened new markets for goods to be sold.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad? (Connected the two rail lines at Promontory Point, Utah -- golden spike!)
300
A) This big businessman dominated the steel industry, wrote the Gospel of Wealth, and used the Bessemer Process at his factories. B) Term for giving away your wealth to charity and other good causes.
A) Who is Andrew Carnegie? B) What is philanthropy?
300
Exclusion Act of 1882, passed by the Federal Government in Washington, D.C., targeted this ethnic group of people, severely limiting them from immigrating to the U.S. (even though they helped build the railroads)
What are the Chinese?
300
Term for a group of workers who join together to gain better working conditions and pay.
What are labor unions?
300
The most famous political boss, he was the leader of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City.
Who is Boss Tweed? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Boss_Tweed%2C_Nast.jpg/237px-Boss_Tweed%2C_Nast.jpg
400
This law, passed by the Federal Government in Washington D.C., forced Indians to assimilate to the American culture, and broke up tribal lands into reservations for them to live on.
What is the Dawes Act (sometimes known as the Dawes-Severalty Act)?
400
This big businessman dominated the oil industry, created the Standard Oil Company, and created monopolies to reduce competition against him.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
400
This was a welcoming place for European immigrants, founded by Jane Addams and other settlement house reformers in Chicago. It helped immigrants with social and educational skills.
What is the Hull House?
400
Term that describes a method used by labor unions to negotiate better contracts with management.
What is collective bargaining?
400
Term that means appointing a friend or supporter to a government position.
What is patronage?
500
In an attempt to force assimilation, the federal government outlawed the Ghost Dance, a sacred religious practice. When the Dakota Sioux continued the ritual the US army massacred 200 Indian men, women, and children at this so-called battle.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890? (sometimes known as the Wounded Knee Massacre) click below http://cdn.history.com/sites/2/2015/12/Big_Foot_leader_of_the_Sioux_captured_at_the_battle_of_Wounded_Knee_S.D.-_Here_he_lies_frozen_on_the_snow-covered_ba_-_NARA_-_530805-1.jpg
500
The idea that the strong survive economically (in business) and in society.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
People who came from Eastern and Southern Europe, didn't speak English, and came with radical ideas and different types of governments than the U.S. had were known as _______ (Old or New) immigrants.
What are "New" immigrants? (Old immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe, like England, and other places where English was spoken and democracy was practiced.)
500
This third party supported William Jennings Bryan as a candidate in the election of 1896. Their party was made up of farmers and workers who wanted bimetallism and other changes made to government and business. Bryan gave his famous "Cross of Gold Speech" at the convention where he was nominated.
What is the Populist party?
500
Political machines would ________(oppose or favor) immigrants coming to the United States.
What is favor them coming because they could give them jobs and places to live in exchange for their votes?