Goal Four

Push/Pull Factors –

Homestead Act –

MorrillLand Grant Act –

What is the myth about the West?

List some technological advances that helped settle the West.

What caused the decline of the self-sufficient farm?

What was the effect of barbed wire?

What was the main problem between sheepherders and cattle ranchers?

Why was Dawes Act passed?

What is the importance of the Buffalo?

Battle of Little BigHorn –

What ended the Native wars on the Plains?

Populism =

Platform/causes/Demands –

William JenningsBryan –

What is significant about the Cross of Gold Speech?

Why did farmers want “free silver”?

1896 Prez election: what happened to Populist party?

Who were Exodusters?

Boomers –

Sooners –

Goal 5

List a few push factors-

List a few Pull factors –

What were the two immigration stations? What type of immigrants came through?

Nativism –

Who were the main targets?

What laws were passed that shows this?

Where did most immigrant children learn and assimilate?

What was one major effect of immigration and urbanization?

What was the settlement house movement? Who was its leading figure?

Social Darwinism –

ID different business models.

Monopoly –

Oligopoly –

Cartel –

Vertical integration –

Horizontal integration/consolidation –

Trust –

Name several “Captains of Industry.”

What was the critics name for them?

What were the issues for early labor unions?

What is significant about the Haymarket Sqaure Riot?

American Federation of Labor –

Leader =

Who is Eugene V. Debs?

What is a court injunction?

How did political machines use immigrants to their advantage?

Who was the most famous NY City political boss?

Pendleton Civil Service Act –

Goal 6

Isolationism –

Imperialism –

What were the US motives for imperialism during the late 19th century?

Who is Alfred T. Mahan and his ideas?

What were the causes of the Spanish-American-Cuban War of 1898?

Who were the Roughriders? Leader?

What ended the SAC 1898 war?

Fighting this war demonstrated a need for what?

What was the impact of the SAC 1898 war on international relations?

Platt Amendment –

Teller Amendment –

Who is John Hay?

Open Door Policy –

Big Stick Policy (Roosevelt Corollary) –

Dollar Diplomacy –

Great White Fleet –

Who were some of the leading anti-imperialists?

US Territorial Expansion

1865-1920

Through War / Through Purchase or Annexation



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