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US Expansion
Economic Growth of the US
Big Business
Workers
Progressives
100
Plains Indians depended on this as a source of food, shelter and clothing. The railroad impeded its survival
What is the Buffalo
100
an import tax to help promote American businesses
What is Protective Tariff
100
Someone who is using unfair business practices in order to make more money
What is a Robber Barron?
100
Majority of workers working in factories were
What is immigrants
100
Created the Hull House
Who is Jane Addams
200
160 Acres if you farm it for 5 years
What is Homestead Act
200
Court case upheld the ability of congress to regulate interstate commerce
What is Gibbons v Ogden
200
Leader in the Steel Industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
Immigrants provided bosses with
What is cheap labor
200
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair prompted congress to pass this
What is Meat inspection act
300
Granted subsidies to railroads to build the transcontinental railroad
What is Pacific Railway Act
300
The development of this helped farmers get raw materials to market
What is transcontinental railroad
300
The theory that if you work hard enough you will prosper. Only the strong will/should become rich
What is Social Darwinism
300
In the late 1800s and early 1900s more and more immigrants came from this part of Europe
What is Southern and Eastern
300
Someone who exposes injustices and puts them into public view
What is a muckraker
400
Took land away from Native Americans and split it up into family tracts in an attempt to assimilate them
What is the Dawes Act?
400
where the government gives you money and or land in order to obey their wishes
What is subsidy
400
1 Group or business controls the market
What is monopoly
400
The term for a replacement worker used to replace workers that were striking
What is a scab
400
This amendment gave us Direct Election of Senators
What is 17th Amendment?
500
The last major armed encounter between natives and US. 270 women and children died.
What is Wounded Knee?
500
This Court case reviewed Patent Laws
What is Dartmouth v. Woodward
500
When Carnegie owned the mines, the mills and part of the railroads
What is Vertical Integration
500
When a judge finds a legally binding agreement between strikers and owners
What is arbitration
500
Famous Photographer muckraker
Who is Jacob Riis