Westward Expansion
connected the East to the West
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
People moved west to mine for this resource
What is gold?
Businesses that own all aspects of an industry
What are monopolies?
Small, one-room apartments with no running water; unsanitary
What are tenements?
political machines, spoils system, monopolies are all forms of __________________
What is corruption?
Free land & job opportunities are known as ________________________.
What are pull factors?
What are bison/buffalo?
Describing monopolists as people who mistreat their workers, pay them low wages, and eliminate competition.
What are robber barons?
Moving from rural areas to urban areas
What is urbanization?
What are push factors?
Law that gave white settlers 160 acres of land in the West
What is the Homestead Act?
the process of adopting a new culture
What is assimilation?
The process used to make steel faster & cheaper
What is the Bessemer Process?
Caused an increase in nativism
What is immigration?
Groups of workers that fight for better conditions
What are labor unions?
The belief that the U.S. was divinely ordained to expand across the whole North American continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
the owner of the steel monopoly that said the poor are best served through philanthropy
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Law that made monopolies illegal
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Law that banned a certain immigrant population from the US in the 1880s due to job competition
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The name of the biggest Political Machine in NYC
What is Tammany Hall?
Law that forced the assimilation of Native Americans in exchange for land on reservations
What is the Dawes Act?
Political party started by farmers and workers to fight for better conditions
What is the Populist Party?
Big business ____________ competition and caused prices of goods to increase.
What is reduced?
Provided jobs or tenements to immigrants in exchange for votes
What is a political machine?
City leaders awarding jobs (that they weren't qualified for) to those in the community who helped them win elections
What is the spoils system?