Westward Expansion
Industrialization
Urban America
Immigration
Robber Barons
100
The forced relocation of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River
The Trail of Tears
100
The invention of the light bulb increased production by...
Allowing employees to continue work at night
100
Crowded apartments without plumbing or electricity
Tenement
100
The legislation limiting immigration from China
The Chinese Exlcusion Act
100
This Robber Baron made his fortune in shipping and railroads
Cornelius Vanderbilt
200
Government policy that gave away free land to settlers in the West
The Homestead Act
200
When a company owns ALL of the means of production of a commodity
Monopoly
200
Corrupt public officials like Boss Tweed that controlled local politics
Party Bosses
200
This was the point of entry for immigrants from Europe
Ellis Island
200
This man wrote "The Gospel of Wealth" that encouraged the wealthy to participate in philanthropy
Andrew Carnegie
300
An infamous battle where US Soldiers tried to arrest Sitting Bull and killed 200 Lakota men, women, and children
The Battle of Wounded Knee
300
This process, developed by Henry Ford, kickstarted industrialization
The Assembly Line
300
Name three problems created by urbanization in the Gilded Age
-lack of sanitation
-organized crime
-poor living conditions
-poverty
-political corruption
300
People who opposed immigrants and supported restricting them
Nativists
300
This Robber Baron made his fortune by owning all of the production of the oil process
John D. Rockefeller
400
General Custer and 300 of his men died in this battle when they tried to remove the Lakota from the Black Hills
Battle of Little Big Horn
400
This is someone who assumes the risk of starting a company
Entrepreneur
400
These organizations, led by Party Bosses, controlled all of local politics in a city and provided basic services in exchange for votes
Political Machines
400
This was the point of entry for immigrants coming from Asia
Angel Island
400
This man was Andrew Carnegie's ruthless operation manager at steel mills
Henry Frick
500
The completion of this contributed to the closing of the frontier and the completion of Manifest Destiny
The Transcontinental Railroad
500
The government's hands-off policy that allowed big businesses to grow
Laissez-faire
500
The application of "survival of the fittest" to humans to justify rich and poor
Social Darwinism
500
The most important pull factor for European immigrants in the late 19th century
Employment opportunities
500
This man revolutionized production by creating the assembly line that made his fortune
Henry Ford
600
The process in which a person acquires the social and psychological characteristics of a different culture
Assimilation
600
Both the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act were designed to...
Regulate big business
600
This person prioritizing economic rights over political rights for black Americans
Booker T. Washington
600
This settlement house was founded by Jane Addams in Chicago to offer services in immigrant neighborhoods
Hull House
600
This Robber Baron made his fortune in banking and buying smaller companies
Who is JP Morgan?