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Westward Expansion
Gilded Age
Immigration
Gilded Age II
Indigenous People in the West
100

The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continent from "sea to shining sea" was both justified and inevitable.

What is Manifest Destiny

100

The idea that business should be free from government regulation best represents what economic principle?

Laissez-Faire (hands-off)

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

Term for a single company that dominates and has price-control over an entire industry

What is a Monopoly!

100

This herding animal and main food for Native Americans was nearly brought to extinction in the West

What are buffalo

200
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!)
200
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?
200

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)

Who are the Chinese?

200
Term for a group of workers who join together to gain better working conditions and pay.
What are labor unions?
200

What was the goal of boarding schools for Indigenous children from the 1800s up until the 1970s?

What is to "assimilate" and take away their culture. language, etc.

300
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?
300
Negative term used to describe big businessmen who created monopolies and became rich from corrupt business practices.
What are Robber Barons?
300

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.

Who are nativists?

300
Term that describes crowded housing and apartments in the cities, due to rapid urbanization. Many families lived in these connected units.
What are tenements?
300

What one consequence of the reservation policy (pursued by the U.S. government in the 1800s) on Indigenous groups?

Answers will vary (teacher gets to approve or not ;)

400

Give TWO ways that the Federal Government helped ensure the Transcontinental RR (and other RRs) got built to connect West?

What are: 1. Gave land grants/subsidies for every mile built

2. Sent troops to protect workers from Native American resistance/attacks

3. Provided direct loans/bonds to finance construction

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

During the medical inspection on Ellis Island, examiners would pull up the eyelids of immigrants to check for this eye disease.

What is Trachoma

400
Term that describes a method used by labor unions to negotiate better contracts with management.
What is collective bargaining?
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 called the Dawes Severalty Act)

500

What is the name of the place where the two parts of the Transcontinental railroad met (and a golden spike was driven in)?

What is Promontory Point, Utah 

500
The idea that the strong survive economically (in business) and in society.
What is Social Darwinism?
500

People who came from _____________________________, in very large numbers in later 1800s and early 1900s were often termed "new immigrants," and discriminated against due to different cultures.

Who are Southern and Eastern Europeans. (Old immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe, like England, and other places where English was spoken and democracy was practiced.)

500

Type of company that is owned by many investors with the goal of growing larger

What is a corporation

500

In an attempt to force assimilation, the federal government outlawed the _________ ____________, a sacred religious practice. When the Dakota Sioux continued the ritual the US army massacred 200 Indian men, women, and children at Wounded Knee.

What is Ghost Dance