Chlorophyll more like bore a fill
Thomas Edison changed the hours people could work with this invention.
What is the lightbulb?
Poorly built, unsanitary, cramped housing in the city
What is a tenement?
Created by Alexander Graham Bell
What is the telephone?
This provided access to national markets.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Homes built by farmers who had no access to lumber in the west
What are soddies?
The primary religion of majority of Irish Immigrants.
What is Roman Catholic?
This pro American belief wanted to restrict immigration and assimilate non native Americans
What is a nativist?
Government program designed to encourage western migration and settlement.
What is the Homestead Act?
Grants 160 acres to settlers willing to live there for 5 years and grow crops
What is the Homestead Act?
The way political bosses maintain control at the local level
What is voting?
This invention shuts down open range cattle drives and the western frontier
What is barbed wire?
The complete control of competition in business allowing you to control prices.
What is a monopoly?
What are political machines (bosses)?
What is a potato famine?
Gold was discovered and caused 100,000 people to migrate and only 30,000 survived the journey.
What is the Klondike?
Captain of industry that became wealthy with the Bessemer process.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Tech advances
Factories are built
Jobs are created
What is industrialization?
Bi-metalic Standard (currency)
Gov ownership of Railroads
Graduated Income Tax
Secret ballots for voting
Direct election of Senators
What are populist beliefs?
Their main goal is to improve working conditions for workers
What are labor Unions?
Act that requires Native Americans to give up lands and assimilate into Western Culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
This restricted the monopolistic practices of the railroads and benefited farmers.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Theory that laws of evolution also apply to society
What is Social Darwinism?
Fear of losing American jobs to Chinese immigrants leads to this policy.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another
What is assimilation?
The number of children Coach Gilchrist has.
What is 5?