history

Question 1

Western expansion

reasons?

Answer 1

profit motive, new land acquired, over population in east, ranching transportation improvements, industrial development.

Question 2

Manifest Destiny

Answer 2

belief US should expand from Atlantic to pacific ocean.

Question 3

homestead act

Answer 3

160 acres of settlers; own after 5 years of cultivation.

Question 4

cattle boom

Answer 4

after civil war there were millions of wild cattle on plains around Texas.

Question 5

Gold rush

Klondike gold rush

Answer 5

1896, gold was discovered in Alaska

Question 6

impact of Transcontinental RR

Answer 6

allowed for easier transport of goods by raw material producers to urban markets

Question 7

Inventions

barbed wire?

Answer 7

ended cattle drives

Question 8

windmill

Answer 8

helped increase productivity.

Question 9

steel plows

Answer 9

increased farmers efficiency on great plains

Question 10

plight of the farmers- issued on great plains

Answer 10

falling prices for crops, shrinking money supply, repayment of loans, high shipping prices

Question 11

population party

platform?

Answer 11

movement that gave complaints of mostly western farmers

Question 12

collapse

Answer 12

McKinley won election of 1896 marketing an end of the movement

Question 13

gold standard

definition?

Answer 13

backing US dollars w gold

Question 14

Bimetallism

Answer 14

backing US dollars w gold and silver

Question 15

Indians

assimilation?

Answer 15

to blend into a culture

Question 16

Dawes act

Answer 16

160 acres for Indians to “Americanize” to maintain culture

Question 17

Early immigration

1st wave?

Answer 17

northwest Europe

Question 18

2nd wave?

Answer 18

southern & eastern Europe

Question 19

Sherman Anti- Trust Act

Answer 19

monopolies illegal

Question 20

Pendleton Civil service act

Answer 20

allowed a commition to make political appointments through ment system

Question 21

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 21

wealthy steel tycoon

Question 22

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 22

wealthy oil tycoon

Question 23

trusts?

Answer 23

monopoly

Question 24

vertical integration

Answer 24

organization that controls all operations

Question 25

horizontal integration

Answer 25

combination of corporations engaged in the same type of business

Question 26

interstate commerce commission

Answer 26

5 member committee established to supervise RR activity

Question 27

inventions- Besseman process

Answer 27

made production of steel more economical & removed higher levels of importunes

Question 28

political bosses/machines

Answer 28

city governments were run by corrupt leaders. machines often provided jobs & other services to immigrants/poor

Question 29

tammany hall

Answer 29

political machine controlled by boss tweed in NYC

Question 30

graft

Answer 30

use of political influence for personal gain

Question 31

social gospel

Answer 31

preached salvation through service to the poor

Question 32

Jane Addams

Answer 32

founded of hull house established to help immigrants/poor

Question 33

woman's suffrage leader? goal?

Answer 33

leader- Susan B. Anthony | goal- woman's rights to vote

Question 34

industrial growth factors

Answer 34

abundant natural resources & improved transportation

Question 35

problems in cities

Answer 35

lack of sanitation, overcrowding, high crime rates

Question 36

how the other half live by Jacob Riis

Answer 36

brought awareness to poor living conditions in cities

Question 37

Nativism

Answer 37

Favoritism toward native-born citizens

Question 38

Laissez Faire

Answer 38

less government regulation of business

Question 39

labor unions

Answer 39

methods: strikes, boycotts, protests

Question 40

American Federation Of Labor

Answer 40

becomes the voice for skilled laborers

Question 41

Knights of labor

Answer 41

first big national labor organization

Question 42

Haymarket Square

Answer 42

Protestors tossed bomb at police starting a riot

Question 43

child labor

Answer 43

20% of boys under 15-10% of girls under 15 ( some as yound as 5 years old) held full time jobs. most had to drop out of school to support family

Question 44

immigrants | reasons for immigration?

Answer 44

economic, political freedom, religious freedom

Question 45

chinese exclusion act

Answer 45

act effect was to ban most chinese immigrants from coming to the US

Question 46

inventions

Answer 46

telephone