Western Expansion
The belief that God ordained America to spread from coast to coast
Manifest Destiny
This railroad ran from Omaha to Utah through the Great Plains
Central Pacific
Steel Magnate
Carnegia
Immigration processing center in New York.
Ellis Island
A white character dressed in blackface who made fun of rural blacks.
Jim Crow
Settlers moved west in part because of this government act
Homestead Act
This railroad ran from Sacramento to Utah through the Sierra Nevada mountains
Union Pacific
Oil Tycoon
John D. Rockafellar
What type of immigrants built the Union pacific railroad.
Chinese
This court case created the precedent of "Separate but Equal" that would last for 50 years.
Plessy v. Ferguson
African Americans that moved west in search of a better life
Exodusters
Group of farmers that organized to fight against railroad corruption and abuses.
Grangers
Created a holding company and purchased many railroads and other businesses that were on the brink of failure.
JP Morgan
Organizations that preyed on new immigrants as a means to secure votes and power in large cities.
Political Machines
Name two Jim Crow laws or black codes.
Grandfather clause, literacy tests, poll taxes
This was one of the largest boomtowns in the west.
Virginia City, NV or Comstock Lode
The railroad adopted this long before the United States did.
Time Zones
Law passed in 1890 to target monopolies. Failed due to poor wording and loopholes.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Business owners often built these to house immigrant workers.
Tenements
Writer who spoke out against lynching in the south.
Ida B. Wells
Name two new farming methods or technology used on the Great Plains
Dry farming, steel plows, threshing machines, seed drills, reapers, (and later barbed wire)
This company was a way for stockholders of the Union Pacific to skim money from the Government
Credit Mobilier
Passed by the government in 1887 to regulate trade within the United States.
Interstate Commerce Act
This idea led to things like Americanization schools, the Chinese Exclusion Act, and racism in the cities
Nativism