Westward Expansion
Immigrants and Native Americans
Robber Barons
Workers and Muckrakers
Random
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Railroad that connected the East and the West
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
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How did the Indian schools assimilate native americans?
Changed their hair, name, language, clothes, etc.
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If the government is 'hands off,' lazy, we would say they are....
Laissez-faire
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These journalists investigated big companies and exposed the bad things they did
What are... muckrakers?
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Urbanization: growth of cities
Industrialization: growth of ________
Factories
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Law that gave free land to people moving west
Homestead Act
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European immigrants landed at ___ island. Asian immigrants landed at _____ island.
Ellis, Angel
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What is a monopoly? Do they make prices go up or down?
A company that controls all of one market (they are the only person to sell something). They make prices go UP
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This factory, which killed hundreds of young women and immigrants, fired provoked calls for reform
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
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What law did the publication of The Jungle lead to?
Pure Food and Drug Act
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Farmers joined this party, which advocated for Free Silver/bimettalism and was led by William Jennings Bryan
What is.. the Populist Party?
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a set of laws that barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
What was the positive name that the Robber Barons called themselves? C____ of _______
What is.. Captains of Industry?
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What book did Upton Sinclar write? About what industry?
The Jungle, about the meatpacking industry
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Samuel Morse invented this, which allowed for long distance communication; it was followed by Alexander Graham Bell's telephone
What is the telegraph?
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Connect Manifest Destiny and the Transcontinental Railroad
Manifest Destiny made white Americans believe they should take over the entire continent, and that it as right to do so. This motivated them to build things like the RR to move West more quickly
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How did the Dawes Act attempt to assimilate Native Americans?
Split up tribal lands and made them follow Western land ownership rules; decreased overall land
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Name our 4 Robber Barons and their industries
JP Morgan, banks; Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroads; Carniege, US steel; Rockefeller, Standard Oil
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What were two Progressive Reforms to give workers more political power?
Secret ballot, referedum, recall vote, etc
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What's the message of this cartoon?
Robber barons control the governement
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Populist law that regulated shipping rates on the railroads
Interstate commerce act
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Connect the transcontinental railroad and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese immigrants built the railroads under terrible working conditions and pay. When they were finished with main RRs, US banned them from entering country
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Explain vertical integration in monopolies/trusts
Controlling every stage of the production/sales process
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What was Jane Addam's settlement house called, which was a Progressive solution to housing difficulties?
Hull House
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Describe what this political cartoon is saying.
Working class/poor do all the work, Robber Barons get all the benefits