Industrialization and Innovation
What belief suggests that people become powerful in society because they are naturally better?
What is Social Darwinism?
What conflict arose when rioters threw a bomb at police officers during a peaceful protest in Chicago?
What is The Haymarket Square Riot?
After the Homestead Act, what happened to settlers in the Great Plains?
They flooded to the Great Plains where lumber was scarce.
Who created the first billion-dollar corporation by combining three large steel companies?
Who is J. P. Morgan?
How did literacy tests conflict with America's ideals of liberty?
They were designed to keep immigrants out of the country.
What did the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 represent?
What was the last great settlement rush of the West before the frontier was declared fully settled?
What event was a response to unfair wage cuts and involved a violent strike in 1892?
What is the Homestead Strike?
What was the goal of Eugene Debs and the American Railway Union during the Pullman Strike?
What is to boycott certain train cars?
What was the impact of the movement of Native Americans and cattle drivers during westward expansion?
Their movements were severely restricted, ending the era of the open range.
What was the primary significance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
What is it drew attention to poor working conditions for unskilled laborers?
Why did white southerners deny African Americans their rights?
They wanted to maintain their place within a racial hierarchy.
How did Chinese immigrant workers contribute to the expansion of the United States in the late 1800s?
They worked to expand the railroads in the West.
How did industrialization in the late 1800s contribute to the growth of the middle class?
It created a need for more salaried professional workers.
What was a major factor that led to the establishment of the new class system in cities?
The increase in industrialization and the rise of large corporations.
Which belief influenced the United States to purchase Alaska in 1867?
What is the belief in Manifest Destiny and the desire to expand American trade in the Pacific?