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American Dream
The American dream was to build a nation based on religious freedom. -
Assembly Line
The first (introduced by Eli Whitney)to create muskets for the U.S. Government -
Americanization
Assimilation into American culture. In 1800, everyday life had changed little since the year 1000. By 1900, the Industrial Revolution had transformed the world's economy. -
Factory System
A new way of organizing labor made necessary by the development of machines which were too large to house in a worker's cottage. -
Political Corruption
Political machines in the late 1800s were corrupt in many different ways -
Social Darwinism
The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. -
Bessemer Process
A method for making steel. -
Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable -
Settlement Of The West
The years following the War of 1812 saw a massive migration of white settlers into the Old Northwest, the Old Southwest and the Far West. Between the years 1800 and 1820 the American population nearly doubled and by 1830 a quarter of the people lived west of the Appalachians. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. was the 26th President of the United States. -
The Homestead Act
The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a homestead, at little or no cost. -
Assimilation
The state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family. -
Labor Unions
The labor movement of 1865-1919 was initiated by strikes that began because of wage cuts, the new inventions of machinery, and the depersonalization of workers. -
Growth of Railroads
The development of Railroads was one of the most important phenomena of the Industrial Revolution. With their formation, construction and operation, they brought profound social, economic and political change to a country only 50 years old. -
immigration
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country -
Political Machine
During the 1870s and 1880s, the U.S. economy rose at the fastest rate in its history, with real wages, wealth, GDP, and capital formation all increasing rapidly. -
Barbed Wire
Barbed wire is a fencing material consisting of a metal cable with regularly spaced sharp projections. -
Urbanization and Industrialization in the Gilded Age
The Gilded Age and the first years of the twentieth century were a time of great social change and economic growth in the United States. Gilded Age saw rapid industrialization, urbanization, the construction of great transcontinental railroads, innovations in science and technology, and the rise of big business. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr., was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. -
Boss Tweed in the Gilded Age
William Magear Tweed, popularly known as "Boss Tweed", was a Democratic New York politician during the nineteenth century. -
Eugenics
The term eugenics comes from the Greek roots for "good" and "generation" or "origin" and was first used to refer to the "science" of heredity and good breeding in about 1883. -
Horizontal Integration
Horizontal integration (also known as lateral integration) simply means a strategy to increase your market share by taking over a similar company. -
Vertical Integration
Vertical integration is the process in which several steps in the production and/or distribution of a product or service are controlled by a single company or entity, in order to increase that company’s or entity’s power in the marketplace. -
Haymarket Riot
A labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. -
Federal Indian Poliicy
Federal Indian Policy refers the relationship between the United States Government and the Indian Tribes that exist within its borders. -
The Dawes Act
An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations. -
Nativism
Advocating the perpetuation of native societies; "the old nativist prejudice against the foreign businessman"; "the nativistic faith preaches the old values". -
Trust and Anti-Trusts
Because of fears during the late 1800s that monopolies dominated America's free market economy, Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890 to combat anticompetitive practices, reduce market domination by individual corporations, and preserve unfettered competition as the rule of trade. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA. It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars. -
New Inventions
The 19th century lasted from 1801 through 1900 according to the Gregorian calendar. It is also referred to as the "1800s." The invention of useable electricity, steel, and petroleum products during the 19th century lead to a second industrial revolution (1865–1900), that featured the growth of railways and steam ships, faster and wider means of communication, and inventions with names we all know today. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
A United States federal law that provided the federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of poisonous patent medicines. -
Invention of the Automobile
Henry Ford is mythologically credited for the invention of the automobile, what he actually developed was the characteristic light, low-cost, high-quality, mass-produced American automobile. -
Labor Unions
An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests
