Immigration
A policy favoring the interests of native-born inhabitants over those of immigrants, often involving anti-immigrant sentiment and efforts to limit immigration.
This monopolist monopolized the steel industry
Carnegie
One of the pull factors of settlers to move west in 1848 and 1849.
Gold Rush
The name of the land Native Americans were forced on by the US government where many tribes still reside to this day.
Reservation
President of the Union
Abraham Lincoln
A domestic terrorist group whose purpose was to terrorize African Americans and sympathetic white people. Also would later be against immigrants, Jews, and Catholics.
KKK
The name of the island where most immigrants entered through who came from Europe during the late 1800s to early 1900s.
Ellis Island
The development of people moving from rural communities to the city. Growth of Cities
Urbanization
The name of the trail many pioneers took west which is also the name of a popular children's video game depicting said trail.
Oregon Trail
The main food source of the Native Plains tribes.
Buffalo
Executive order that freed slaves in the Southern Confederacy but did not free slaves for states that remained part of the Union.
Emancipation Proclamation
Jim Crow Laws
The name of the Act which prevented any further immigration China
Chinese Exclusion Act
The type of worker which doesn't need a formal education or special training to complete their job
unskilled worker
The name of the war where the US acquired land that would become CA, NV, UT, NM, AZ, and CO.
Mexican American War
The forced removal of the Cherokee tribe and others to Oklahoma is known as the...
Trail of Tears
The name of the Union's plan to win the war which involved strangling the Confederacy's economy by blockading the coast, taking the Mississippi River, and taking the capital of Richmond, VA.
Anaconda Plan
Amendment number that abolished slavery in the US.
13th Amendment
The process of becoming a citizen.
Naturalization
The name of the organization of workers which advocated for better pay and working conditions for employees
Labor Unions
The name of the Act which encouraged many settlers to move west in search of land. Passed during the Civil War
Homestead Act
The other name for General Custer's Last Stand
Battle of Little Bighorn
The name for a slave state that remained in the Union but resided on the border of the Confederacy.
Border State
This Amendment guarantees the right to vote for all races. It was made specifically to secure the right to vote for African American men.
15th Amendment
The theory or idea where all of the immigrant cultures brought to America melt together to create one American culture.
Melting Pot
The idea of the survival of the finest in society and the economy. Used by monopolists to justify their actions.
Social Darwinism
The idea that it was America's destiny to move westward and spread across the continent
Manifest Destiny
The Act that stripped away reservation land from Native American tribes and divided it up into private lots of land to Native Americans but much was sold to settlers
Dawes Act
This type of warfare refused to distinguish between civilian and military targets to cripple the other nation's means of fighting in a war.
Total War
This organization worked to provide education, healthcare, and other services to African Americans after the Civil War.
Freedman’s Bureau