Life in the West
Robber Baron that controlled 90% of the oil and refiners in America. Standard Oil.
John Rockefeller
What reason had thousands of people migrated out West.
Gold Rush
Name a pull factor people immigrated to the United States.
Opportunity (money and/or jobs), Adventure, Freedom, etc...
Covered thinly with gold leaf or gold paint.
Because of the lack of trees what type of Houses were built in the mid-west.
Sod Houses
Political Boss of the New York Political Machine
Boss Tweed
This Act of Congress encouraged settlement in the West by giving 160 acres of land.
Homestead Act
What do you call a dislike of anyone not born in the US, a dislike of immigrants
Nativism
Really small and gross apartments, overcrowded, unsanitary, and unsafe were called
Tenements
He invented the light bulb and electricity
Thomas Edison
This new technology at the time helped to make Westward expansion more feasible with faster transportation of goods and people
the Transcontinental Railroad
What Island in New York saw millions of European immigrants register to become American Citizens?
Ellis Island
A hands off policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
This Act tried to make Natives more "American" by forcing assimilation.
Dawes Act
He was the Robber Baron that owned US Steel
Andrew Carnegie
The belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the U.S. should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. "Sea to shining Sea"
Manifest Destiny
What was the fuel behind political machines and the way they controlled major cities like New York
Immigrants
What was first time US limited immigration based on nationality/race/ethnicity/
Chinese Exclusion Act
What two groups of people help build the Transcontinental Railroad?
Chinese and Irish immigrants
He invented the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
What two locations had largest rush of people looking for gold?
California and Klondike (Alaska)
Name the corrupt political machine that ran New York city.
Tammy Hall