Westward Expansion
What are factors that led to Westward Expansion?
California Gold Rush, Homestead Act and the Transcontinental Railroad
How would you define the Industrial Revolution?
A period of rapid growth during which machines became essential to industry
What are 3 reasons for immigration to the US?
-Better opportunities/jobs
- Religious freedom
- Escape oppressive (unfair) governments
True or False: Robber Barons were criticized from their fights against unions and regluations!
True
What amendment banned alcohol in the US?
18th amendment
Which American President doubled the size of the United States?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Louisiana Purchase
What were conditions like for workers who worked in factories during the Industrial Revolution?
Workers worked long hours in a dirty and unsafe environment. Poor wages!
Americans moved from ____ to ____ areas for job opportunites
Rural to Urban!
What is robber baron / captain of industry
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What was amendment gave women the right to vote? Also, name to womens suffrage groups!
19th amendment
NWP (The National Woman's Party)
NAWSA (The National American Woman Suffrage Association )
What Law gave the President the power to force Native American tribes to move to land west of the Mississippi River?
President Andrew Jackson. The Indian Removal Act
Name the Reconstruction Amendments and purpose!
13- Ended Slavery
14- Citizenship Rights
15- Voting Rights
What document was meant to discriminate against Chinese immigrants?
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Name 5 negative effects of Industrialization
Child Labor
Low wages
Unsafe working conditions
Impact on the Environment
Monopolies
What were the MAIN CAUSES OF WORLD WAR 1?
Militarism
Alliances
Nationalism
Imperialism
Assassination
This law gave millions of acres to settlers. Each citizen could apply to receive 160 acres of land with the understanding if they lived on it for 5 years and settled the land, it would be free to them.
The Homestead Act
Name 3 new inventions of the industrial revolution
What court case put "separate but equal" in place?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
What was the Progressive Era?
Progressivism is a political philosophy and reform movement that seeks to progress the human condition through reforms.
-proved safety conditions
-reduced work hours
-restriction on child labor
This was the US President during WW1? What was the name of the document published to advise Americans?
Woodrow Wilson
14points of peace (Designed as guidelines for the rebuilding of the postwar world)
What caused Native American reservations to be broken up into "allotments" that were
The Dawes Act (sometimes called the Dawes Severalty Act or General Allotment Act), passed in 1887 under President Grover Cleveland, allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands
Most European Immigrants entered through....
Ellis Island
What are three ways Jim Crow Law kept African Americans from voting?
Poll tax
Literacy Test
Grandfather Clause\
Violence from hate groups (KKK)
What industry did these men lead?
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockerfeller - OIL
Andrew Carnegie- STEEL
Cornelius Vanderbilt- RAILROADS/ SHIPPING
J.P. Morgan = BANKING
This event is often considered to be the starting point of the Great Depression.
Stock market crash of 1929
Black Tuesday