Category 1: Tensions in the West
This group disagreed with the idea that owning land provides freedom.
American Indians
Plains Indians were forced onto reservations after this animal was exterminated.
Bison
High tariffs after the Civil War reduced this type of competition.
Foreign competition
Mass production increased output and jobs but did not improve this:
Working Conditions.
The United States offered immigrants many of these, especially in factories.
Jobs.
This major law increased farms and railroads but reduced American Indian land.
Homestead Act
Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, American Indians were promised land here.
Great Plains
This economic philosophy means the government does not interfere with business:
Laissez-faire
Industrial urban growth led to crowded, unsafe housing known as these.
Tenements.
Immigrant assimilation required adapting to this.
A new way of life.
This immigrant group was most responsible for building the transcontinental railroad.
Chinese immigrants
This battle was the last major fight between U.S. forces and American Indians.
Battle of Little Big Horn
New machinery allowed farmers to produce a greater one of these.
Crop Yield
These organizations were created to protect the rights of workers.
Labor Unions.
These immigrants flee their homeland to save their lives
Refugees
The U.S. government enticed railroad companies by offering these.
land subsidies
Great Plains farmers struggled because rainfall was often this.
Unreliable.
Industrialization expanded because more goods were made by these.
Machines
John D. Rockefeller dominated this industry.
Oil.
Immigrants formed these neighborhoods because they were not accepted elsewhere.
Ethnic neighborhoods.
This group was negatively affected by the transcontinental railroad’s completion.
Plains Indians
Because wood was scarce, many early Plains homes were built from this.
Sod
Edison improved city life by creating this kind of system.
Electrical distribution system.
This safety change could have prevented the Triangle Factory fire tragedy.
Keeping the factory doors unlocked.
Europeans entering the U.S. between 1880–1920 were processed here.
Ellis Island