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Assimilation
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another. The assimilation of American Indians into American society was also a process that took up to about 300 years. -
The Factory System
Factory System was made in order to organize labor made necessary by the development of machines -
Bassemer Process
The bassemer process was a method that they used to make steel. They would compress air through molten iron to burn out the excess carbon & impurities. -
Federal Indian Policy
The Federal Indian Policy was the relationship between the United States' Government and the Indian Tribes -
nativism
a policy or belief that favored in the interest of the Native Americans rather than the interest of immigrants. -
manifest destiny
Expansion westward in the mid-nineteenth century. -
New Inventions
Some of the new inventions in the 1850s were the sewing machine (1853), Typewriter (1868), Elevator (1852), Telephone (1876) -
Political Corruption
Political corruption is the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain. An illegal act by an officeholder constitutes political corruption only if the act is directly related to their official duties -
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
Roosevelt was the 26th President of the U.S. He is best known for his accomplishments, interests, & leadership of the progressive movement. -
Vertical & Horizontal Integration
the process of acquiring or merging with industry competitors -
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company, "a dominating force in the American economy that propelled its founder to become the world's richest man." -
The Homestead Act
signed into law in 1862 by Abraham Lincoln after the secession of Southern States & the Homestead Act basically turned over vasts amount of the public domain to private citizens. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Settlement of the West
The Settlement of the West was when a group of Anglo-Amercians moved to the west and established farms and communities. -
Growth of Railroads
Railroads were given the most of the Western glands in Federal land grants that equalled up to about 180 million acres. -
barbed wire
wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction. -
political machines
a group that controls the activities of a political party; "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine" -
Labor Unions
The labor movement, that took place from 1865-1919, was initiated by strikes that began because of wage cuts, the new inventions of machinery, and the depersonalization of workers. -
The GIlded Age
In United States history, the Gilded Age was the period following roughly from the 1870s to the turn of the twentieth century. -
Boss Tweed in The Gilded Age
Boss Tweed was a Democratic New York politician during the nineteenth century. He was also a very successful politician, and led Tammany Hall, which was a Democratic section of New York politicians. "For many Americans living in the Gilded Age, Boss Tweed was a symbol of greed and corruption typical of many businessmen and politicians of the time." -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American author who wrote books in a variety of genres. He then became very popular around the first half of the 20th century -
Immigration
In the 1880s-1920s the U.S. Witnessed a massive unprecedented tide of immigration. Immigration also contributed to crowded and dangerous living and working conditions in the Industrial City -
Invention of The Automobile
The Invention of The Automobile was made responsible by Karl Benz. He was from Germany and it's said that he invented the first automobile in arounf 1885/1886. -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarkey Riot was a labor protest in Chicago that became a riot when someone threw a bomb to the police. It occurred in Chicago’s Haymarket Square. At least 8 people died. It's also said that the people fighting in the manifestation were fighting for an eight-hour work day. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act broke up the Tribal system granting 160 acre plots to individuals and if Native Americans followed all laws placed upon them, they could become citizens in 1924. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is "survival of the fittest." What it basically is is "the theory that people, groups, and races are subjected to the same laws of natural selection." it also tries to explain the success of other different social groups out there. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
Battle of Wounded Knee was an important battle in Native American History. It was the last important fight between American Indians and United States Troops. -
Trusts & Anti Trusts
"The Sherman Anti-Trust Act, passed in 1890, was the first important federal measure to limit the power of companies that controlled a high percentage of market share." The Act was basically used primarily to block strikes. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was & still is a U.S. Federal law that provided the federal inspection of "meat products" and restricted the manufacture, sale, or transporation, of potential poisonous patent medicines. -
Eugenics
"the desire to improve the hereditary qualities of the human population through selective breeding, forced sterilization, and euthanasia. This pseudo-science got its start in the U.S. and was later used by Hitler to enact genocide on people he deemed “un-fit”. -
The American Dream
The American Dream was "that dream of land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievment." -
Urbanization & Industrialization
Industrialization led to economic change that had positive and negative effects on America while urbanization contributed to crowded and dangerous living and working conditions in the Industrial City. -
Assembly Line
The assembly line was made to create muskets for the U.S Government.
