First Assessment

American Principles

100

This document written by Thomas Jefferson is the "break up letter" between the colonists and Great Britain. 

The Declaration of Independence

200

These first ten amendments of The Constitution is known as this. 

The Bill of Rights

300

These are the five freedoms associated with the First Amendment. 

Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, and Petition

400

These are rights you are born with.  Government can not give them to you nor take them away. (Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness) 

Unalienable Rights 

500

E pluribus unum meaning 

"Out of many one" 

Westward Expansion

100

This act forced Native Americans on to reservations. 

Dawes Act

200

This term means adapting to or taking on another culture's traits. 

Assimilation

300

This act gave away free land out west. 

The Homestead Act

400

The belief that the United States was supposed to be a country that stretched from coast to coast. 

Manifest Destiny

500

The concept of assimilation was targeted towards this group of people. 

The Native Americans

The Gilded Age

100

This process injected air into molten iron to create a lighter more flexible steel. 

Bessemer Process

200

These were organized groups that controlled the activities of the cities' political parties.

Political Machines

300

Organizations like the Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor were created to fight for workers rights and are called this. 

Labor Unions

400

This law passed in 1890 was designed to prevent monopolies. 

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

500

These are crowded apartment buildings that were in substandard conditions. 

Tenements

People

100

The head of the political machine in New York City. 

Boss Tweed 

200

This person identified five core values that made up American Principles. 

Alexis de Tocqueville

300

The owner of Standard Oil.

John Rockefeller

400

Created the first billion dollar corporation in US Steel.

JP Morgan

500

Wrote a book entitled "The Gospel of Wealth" that promoted the idea that God blessed the wealthy and they were expected to help the less fortunate.

Andrew Carnegie

Events

100

This law passed in 1882 was designed to exclude Chinese immigration. 

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

200

This law passed in 1883 was designed to put an end to the spoils system in federal government jobs. 

Pendleton Civil Service Act

300

Riot in Chicago that ended tragically and led the public to turn on labor unions.

Haymarket Riot

400

This act established the ICC. 

The Interstate Commerce Act

500

This railroad scandal in 1868 involved a fake construction company formed by the Union Pacific Railroad. 

Credit Mobilier Scandal