Westward Expansion
This railroad connected the East and West coasts.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A period when factories and machines rapidly grew in the U.S.
What is Industrialization?
Groups of workers who joined together for better conditions.
What are labor unions?
Farmers worked together in these to buy/sell goods.
What are cooperatives?
When one company controls an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
Law that gave settlers cheap/free land to move west.
What is the Homestead Act?
Process that made steel faster and cheaper.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Refusing to work to demand change.
What is a strike?
Political group that supported farmers and workers.
What is the Populist Party?
Buying out competitors to control a market.
What is horizontal integration?
Belief that the U.S. was destined to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
“Hands-off” policy where government didn’t regulate business.
What is laissez-faire?
Fire that killed 145 workers and exposed unsafe factories.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
Using both gold and silver as money.
What is bimetallism?
A result of horizontal integration.
What is less competition/fewer choices/higher prices? (accept any)
U.S. policy that tried to break tribal land into private farms.
What is the Dawes Act?
People moving to cities for factory jobs.
What is urbanization?
Government and courts often did this instead of supporting unions.
What is siding with business?
Why farmers liked bimetallism.
What is it increased money supply and caused inflation?
Economic idea that the rich deserve wealth because they’re “more fit.”
What is Social Darwinism?
These schools were designed to force Indigenous children to adopt white culture.
What are boarding schools?
One big problem caused by rapid industrial growth in cities.
What is unsafe factories/low wages/overcrowding? (accept any)
Event that made some Americans fear unions as radical.
What is the Haymarket Square bombing/riot?
Famous Populist leader who supported free silver.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Government laws meant to limit monopolies (but often weak).
What are antitrust laws? (Sherman Antitrust Act acceptable)