Homestead Act
Person could claim up to 160 acres for small fee if they lived on and improved it.
most significant factor that interfered with cattle drives and the cattle industry?
The invention of barbed wire
Good things the US are considered push or pull factors?
Pull
What is an effect of Shays Rebellion?
Showed the AOC to be weak
Define Carpetbagger
Northerner who came to the South to support Republicans
Define Laissez Faire Economics
government should interfere as little as possible in economy
What was the cause of the Wounded Knee Massarce?
supression of Lakota's spiritual "Ghost Dance"
Issues outside the US are considered push or pull factors?
Push
What two things are included in Washington's Farewell Address?
No poltical parties
No Foreign Allainces
KKK primary goal?
Restore White supremacy in the South
the labor system in the south after the Civil War?
Sharecropping
the significance of the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Sioux Tribe won and it was Custer's Last Stand
which location did hundreds of thousands of Asian migrants arrive to during the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Angel Island
What was the Nullification Crisis a response to?
High Tariffs - Tariff of 1828
Plessy v. Ferguson
Difference between Robber Barons and Captains of Industry
Robber Barons”—got where they were by cheating, exploiting workers.
“Captains of Industry”—embodiment of “American Dream,” show that anyone can be successful in America.
What ended the Reservation System?
The Dawes Act
Large influx of ______ immigrants from the mid-late 19th century.
Chinese
A proposal that called to outlaw slavery in the lands gained by the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War?
Wilmot Proviso
Define Scalawag
Vertical Integration
producing all materials need to produce primary product
What were the Knights of Labor known for?
Being radical.
Allowing women and African Americans to join.
Ellis island was the main point of entry for ________ Immigrants?
European
Stephen Douglas led in the development of which law that called for popular sovereignty to decide if the territories involved would be free states of slave states?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
name for the laws that segregated blacks and whites in the South after Reconstruction?
Jim Crow Laws