Westward Expansion
The belief that the US was divinely ordained to expand westward, expanding democracy and capitalism.
Manifest Destiny
This industrialist dominated the oil industry with Standard Oil.
John D. Rockefeller
Workers stopping work to demand change is called this.
A strike
This 1882 law banned immigration from China.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This term describes corrupt city political organizations.
Political Machines
This 1862 law gave settlers 160 acres of land for farming.
The Homestead Act
This idea argued that the wealthy should use their money to help society, not just donating it.
Book of Wealth
This violent 1892 steel strike involved Carnegie’s company
Homestead Strike
These homes were overcrowded and poorly built in cities.
Tenements
This scandal involved railroad companies and government corruption.
Crédit Mobilier scandal?
Name the railroad completed in 1869 that connected the U.S. coast-to-coast.
The Transcontinental Railroad
This 1890 law attempted to limit monopolies.
Sherman Antitrust Act
This 1894 railroad strike led President Cleveland to send federal troops.
The Pullman Strike
This reformer created Hull House to help immigrants.
Jane Addams
Farmers formed this political party in 1892.
Populist Party
This policy aimed to force Native Americans to adopt American culture.
Assimilation
Term for companies combining to reduce competition and control prices. (they form this)
Trust
This group was often hired to break strikes.
The Pinkertons
Workers from these two countries primarily built the transcontinental railroad.
China and Ireland
This economic crisis hurt farmers and workers in 1893.
Panic of 1893
This Native American leader resisted U.S. expansion and fought at Little Bighorn.
Sitting Bull
This process made steel production cheaper and faster.
Bessemer Process
This man founded the American Federation of Labor and served as the organization's president from 1886-1894.
Samuel Gompers
This book exposed poor living conditions in cities.
How the Other Half Lives
This reform law required government jobs to be awarded based on merit rather than political connections.
Pendleton Act