Expansion and conflict in the west
This term is used to describe the name for pioneers who flocked to California during the gold rush as a result of new found wealth. These people came from boat and land to get their fare share in the riches.
Forty niners
This was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. It provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. It's purpose was to placate worker demands/ concerns about maintaining white "racial purity.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This women was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In 1892, the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania discharged workers from the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers Union. A bloody confrontation ensued between the workers and the hired Pinkerton security guards, ultimately killing 16 people and causing many injuries.(What was this strike called)
Homestead Strike
Widely regarded as the richest person of all time, this business magnate, founded the Standard Oil company, and was known for his brutal business practices.
John D. Rockefeller
This party was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology which was active from 1874 to 1889. The party ran candidates in three presidential elections, in 1876, 1880 and 1884, before it faded away.
The greenback party
The belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners- movement based on hostility to immigrants, especially Irish & Catholic ones
importance. Nativists considered immigrants as despots overthrowing the American republic. It resulted in the formation of anti-immigrant societies, most notably the "know nothing" party
Nativists
This person was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications
William Randolph Hearst Sr.
The American Federation of Labor was a national federation of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor.
American Federation of Labor
This successful business man, was one of the richest people to ever live. His wealth derived from his own bank which was named after him, and from creating the company: U.S Steel
J.P Morgan
This act in 1862 gave 160 acers of land to any us citizen who was loyal to the union. They where requited to cultivate the land and improve it in order to keep it.
The homestead act of 1862
William Magear Tweed, widely known as this nickname, was an American politician most notable for being the political BOSS of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party's political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and state. (What was his nickname)
Boss Tweed
This was a period of immense economic change, great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems, and huge fortunes were made and lost. Major names like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller came out of this period
Gilded Age
Sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, this event began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year. This event was the first strike that spread across multiple states in the U.S.
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Robber Barons
This argument made by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations.
Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”
This was a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives like money, and political jobs, and it was characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activity.
Political Machines
This person was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. He helped to establish the pattern of the modern newspaper.
Joseph Pulitzer
This panic, was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted throughout the 1870's in France and in Britain. In Britain, the Panic started two decades of stagnation known as the "Long Depression" that weakened the country's economic leadership. (What year was this panic)
Panic of 1873
This woman rights activist, was a women who sought to create equality between men and women. She is most famous for the book "On Women's right to vote"
Susan B Anthony
This was a name given to Great Plains farmers because they had to break through so much thick soil, called sod, in order to farm
Sodbusters
A locally organized machine dedicated to stopping Clinton and Federalists from rising to power in New York. However, local Democratic-Republicans began to turn against it. From 1806 to 1809 public opinion forced the local Common Council to crack down on it.
Tammany Hall
An organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Yellow-dog contract
This person was an American military leader and politician who would later serve has the 19th president of the united states. He served in the union for the civil war and gained a reputation of bravery.
Rutherford B. Hayes