Go West, Young Man
One of the three major staples of the Western economy in the 19th century (not including railroads).
What are cattle ranching, farming, and mining?
The steel magnate Andrew Carnegie paved the way for this type of business integration.
What is vertical?
Name of the meatpacking bill passed by Roosevelt in June 1906.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
"Nationalism on steroids"
What is jingoism?
Narrow, cramped apartments for immigrant families, notably in New York City's Lower East Side.
What are tenements?
This act carved up communal tribal lands and further compelled Native Americans to assimilate.
What is the Dawes Act (1887)?
Assembly line pioneer.
Who is Henry Ford?
The title of Upton Sinclair's groundbreaking work, it actually intended to espouse socialism and shed light on the plight of the laborer.
What is The Jungle?
True or False: the Senate approved ratification of the Treaty of Paris (1898), with debates raging over what to do with the Philippines.
What is true?
Nez Perce chieftain.
Who is Chief Joseph?
Lakota chief Sitting Bull, killed in 1890 by Indian Police, caught the blame for this ritualistic practice among his people, initially spreading from Nevada.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This 1892 strike by the Amalgamated Association of Steel and Iron Workers (against Carnegie) turned rather bloody.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This commission, forged out of an 1887 act, was largely ineffective at regulating the very industry it hoped to rein in.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
Name of Taft's foreign policy strategy.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Embodiment of Gilded Age "political machines" by embezzling money through NYC's Tammany Hall.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
This surviving member of Lincoln's cabinet orchestrated the purchase of Alaska in 1867.
Who is William Seward?
Passed under Wilson and barred interstate transport of goods produced by factories/canneries with child labor (deemed unconstitutional shortly after).
What is the Keating-Owen Act?
This amendment enforced direct election of Senators.
What is the 17th?
Equal access to trade in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
Capital of Venezuela (just to test your geography).
What is Caracas?
Mexican Americans living in California, notably Los Angeles, clustered into these cultural communities following the expansion of settlement west.
What are barrios? (or Sonoratown, L.A's first barrio mentioned in the PBS article we read).
The science of workplace efficiency, synthesizing work flows and blah, blah, blah (I sound like a consultant).
What is Taylorism?
This occurs when government regulation agencies actually advance the agenda of those regulated.
What is "regulatory capture?"
No annexation of Cuba after the war, it said.
What is the Teller Amendment?
I bet you don't remember which treaty established the Great Sioux Reservation and ultimately contributed to the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876).
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?