Westward Expansion
The idea that the United States was meant to spread across the continent
What is manifest destiny
This amendment guaranteed citizenship to all people born in the United States
What is the 14th Amendment.
A group of workers that united in their common interests.
What is a labor union
The name of the book made by photojournalist, Jacob Riis, on the living conditions in America's growing cities.
What is 'How the Other Half Lives'
The president at the outset of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
The idea of 'kill the Indian, save the man' was advocating for this form of assimilation.
What are Indian boarding schools
A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
What is sharecropping.
Ideology that believes in unrestricted private enterprise and no government interference in the economy. "Hands off".
Laissez-faire economics.
A game invented in Springfield, MA. Shows the creation of leisure time and a growing middle class in Gilded Age America.
What is Basketball.
Steel magnate who also advocated for the Gospel of Wealth.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
This structure, completed in 1869, brought both coasts of the country together at Promitory Point, Utah.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad.
Executive Order issued by Lincoln that declared all enslaved people in territories in active rebellion to be freed.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
This is the act of joining together or consolidating competitors to create a monopoly.
Horizontal Integration
Name a people group that would have been considered 'New Immigrants' in the late 1800s.
Options
Italians, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Serbes, Croats, Russians. Romanians, Greeks, Japanese, Chinese
Established Standard Oil, eventually dominating as much as 90% of the oil market at the time.
Who is John D Rockefeller
Farming cooperatives, farmers share supplies. Created originally as a means for connecting farmers then quickly turned into a political movement for farmers.
What is the Grange.
Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast.
What is the Anaconda Plan.
A rally was held in 1886 in Chicago advocating for an 8-hour work day. Turned violent, after a bomb was thrown at the police.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot.
A law that denied additional immigrants from a certain country out of nativist fears of job competition.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act.
An enslaved man. He lived with his master in Illinois and Wisconsin. Eventually sued for his freedom and lost.
Who is Dred Scott
Passed by Congress in 1862, this law distributed millions of acres of western lands to state governments in order to fund state agricultural colleges.
What is the Morrill Land-Grant Acts
Laws that were created across the country to limit the rights of African Americans.
What are Jim Crow Laws.
The first major interstate strike in American history. Was brought on by the Panic of 1873 and wage cuts in this key industry.
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
A settlement house operated by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr. Sponsored innovative health, education and social programs for immigrants.
What is Hull House.
One of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World. Ran for president 5 times as the candidate for the socialist party (even ran from prison).
Who is Eugene Debs