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?