Ellis Island

Railroad Industry

Transcontinental Railroad

Chinese Laborers

Steel Industry

John D. Rockefeller

Standard Oil Company

Trusts

Monopoly

Thomas Edison

Sitting Bull

Wounded Knee

Transportation method that

linked the east and west in 1869. Western portion was built

mostly by Chinese laborers.

The federal government gave land to this industry so that it could build a transportation

method which linked America from coast to coast and opened

up the West to settlement

New York Immigrant station.

Immigrants had to pass health and welfare test before

entering the country

Founder of Standard Oil

Company who eventually controlled 90% of the

country’s oil

Industry which grew rapidly

due to the demand for RR track. Andrew Carnegie made his

fortune in this industry.

Asian immigrants who accepted low pay and

dangerous conditions to build the transcontinental RRs.

A single company that

controls virtually all production in a market

Type of monopoly where one business owns or dominates all

the others in that industry

Powerful monopoly owned

by John D. Rockefeller.

1890 confrontation between U. S. cavalry and Sioux who

were mistakenly thought to be performing a war dance.

It marked the end of Indian resistance.

Sioux leader who fought the

U. S. army over settlers looking for gold on their reservation.

Inventor of the light bulb,

phonograph and motion pictures.

American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers

Pullman Strike

Muckrakers

Upton Sinclair

Ida Tarbell

Hull House

Referendum

Recall

17th Amendment

Jim Crow Laws

Plessy .v Ferguson

Railcar factory workers went on

strike after wage cuts – rail traffic stopped – Pres Cleveland

used the army to break the strike.

Founder of the American

Federation of Labor

Union whose goal was to use

strikes for better wages, working conditions, and

shorter workdays.

Muckraker who criticized

Standard Oil for unfair business practices which led

to the breakup of the company.

Muckraker who wrote

The Jungle which exposed corruption in the meat

packing industry.

Journalists who exposed

corruption in politics, child labor, slums and

other social issues

Process which allows citizens to

remove public officials from office before their term expires

Process which allows the voters to approve or reject proposed laws

Jane Addams social service

agency which helped immigrants with language,

legal rights, medical care, etc.

1896 Supreme Court case which

upheld the Jim Crow Laws… “separate but equal”

Southern state laws which segregated public facilities

Instead of state legislators

choosing senators this amendment allows the

people to directly elect them

NAACP

Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation Movement

Nativism

Chinese Exclusion Act

Spanish-American War

Philippine-American War

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

Panama Canal

Initiative

Progressive Movement

Imperialism

Progressive reform to protect millions of acres of wilderness land in western states. Led to

the National Park System.

Progressive President:

Trustbuster, led the conservation movement,

friend of labor

Organization formed in the

early 1900s, to seek full social and economic equality

for blacks

1898 war with Spain over

the independence of Cuba. As a result of the American

victory, we gained Puerto Rico and the Philippines.

1882 law which banned all future Chinese immigration

Term to describe prejudice against immigrants

in the late 1800s

U. S. built waterway which connects the

Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Statement which said that the U.S. would intervene in

Latin America if it was threatened by European powers

Unsuccessful fight for

independence from America after we took it from the

Spanish in the Spanish-American War.

U. S. foreign policy of political,

economic and/or military dominance or influence over another country or colony.

Early 1900s reform movement

which sought to improve American life politically,

economically and socially

Progressive reform which allows citizens to collect signatures in order to get an issue placed on

the ballot for the voters.