Westward Expansion
Grassland of Central North America that extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
What are the Great Plains
Was Scottish-American industrialist business tycoon and philanthropist who controlled most of the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
An American industrialist business tycoon and philanthropist who owned Standard Oil and controlled 90% of the oil industry in the late 1800s.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
The large growth of cities. With this came a large range of urban problems including sanitation, transportation, and crowded living conditions.
What is Urbanization
This event led thousands of Americans to go out west to get rich quick. The San Francisco football team got its name from the people who went to California during this time.
What is the California Gold Rush
U.S. soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native Americans in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee
Situation in which one company controls an entire industry
What is a monopoly
The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
What is industrialization
Community centers that helped immigrants address the problems of horrible living conditions, disease, illiteracy, and unemployment.
What are Settlement Houses
The idea that Americans should control the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny
As a demand for beef increased, cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the east by railroad. Famous trails include the Chisholm, Western, and Goodnight-Loving.
What are Cattle Drives
Groups of people who worked to better conditions in cities according to the biblical ideas of charity and justice. (Late 19th century)
What is the Social Gospel
She was the founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace.
Who is Jane Addams
A political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite. Based among poor, white cotton farmers in the South
What is Populism
Who is the Vice President of the United States
Who is Mike Pence
Was a law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the west
What is the Homestead Act (1862)
The belief that the rich succeed because they are superior to the poor. This belief was applied to big business during the Gilded Age.
What is Social Darwinism
Organizations that protected the interests of the worker. They created the 40-hour work week and dealt with dangerous working conditions. They also organized strikes. Famous organizations included Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor.
What are Labor Unions
Small companies join together to form one large company.
What are trusts
What is the third planet from the Sun
What is the Earth
U.S. law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land. It authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
What is the Dawes Act (1887)
The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
What is Laissez-Faire
Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in cities. A boss led the machine and attempted to grab more votes for their party. Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall are an example
What are Political Machines
Outlawed business monopolies, but was not very effective at limiting the power of big business.
Sherman Antitrust Act
This new way of transportation opened up faster travels to the West.
What is the Transcontinental railroad