Westward!!!
This law passed during the civil war allowed for people to settle west and claim land for free (assuming they spent 5 years living/farming the land)
What is the Homestead Act?
What is the Spoils System?
What is journalist that wanted to expose corruption and abuses in industry and goverment
What is a Muckracker?
The Progressive Movement was primarily a response to problems created by what great change/revolution in the 18th century
What is Industrailization?
This Supreme Court case enshired the idea of "Seperate but Equal" and allowed segregation
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
What is Manifest Destiny?
This New York City boss ran Tammany Hall and was associated with the political machines and corruption that plauged the gilded age
Who is Boss Tweed?
Author of the Jungle
Who is Upton Sinclair
Jane Austin was known for bringing this to the United States to help the poor
What are Settlement Houses
This spiritual movement of Native Tribes attempted to call back the buffalo and drive out the white settlers
So many people moved to California in 1849 for this..
WHAT IS GOLD
An illigal payment/donation to a politician in exchange for getting a job later was known as this
What is a Kickback
Best known for my photographs of people living in New York Cities poorest slums, he wrote How the Other Half Lives
Who is Jacob Riis
What is the purpose of the 16th Amendment?
What is to create a national income tax (to make up for lost revenue from tariffs)
The three assasinated presidents we have learned about this year
Who is Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley
This is the biblically inspired term to describe African Americans that left the South during reconstruction to find a new life in the West
What is Exodusters?
This theory adapted the work of a famous scientist to justify racist and classist beliefs that the wealthy monopolists deserved their money and the poor were just not as smart/fit.
What is Social Darwinism
Who was the President to signed the PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT to enforce public health stardards and used the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust acts to break up monopolies
Who is President Theodore Roosevelt
Ended the Spoils System and created a merit-based system for getting jobs and promotions in government
What is the Pendelton Civil Service Act?
The slaugter of over 200 Lakota native americans in North Dakota in 1890.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Explain how the Dawes Act hurt Native American communities.
Describe the importance of Labor Unions in this time and one example of protesting that escalated to violence.
During the Gilded Age, labor strikes were common, with workers fighting for basic rights against factory owners and corporations.
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Pullman Strike. Haymarket Strike.
Explain how Woodrow Wilson became President of the United States. Then name at least one progressive law he signed/helped pass.
Woodrow Wilson won because Teddy Roosevelt and Taft spilt the Republican vote and Progressive started to align more with the Democrats.
- 19th amendment, Ban Child Labor, Tax Reform
Explain the goals and sucess of the Temprance Movement, why was it short lived?
The temprance movement wanted to ban alcohol in the USA and the 18th amendment banned booze. It only lasted 13 years
Explain the "Fronteir Thesis" and who wrote it.
The Frontier Thesis is a idea that the settlement of the American frontier was a key factor in the development of American culture of indivudualsim and exeptionalism. (We are the best country ever yipeeee). Written by Fredrick Turner