US Expansion

Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

Americans were chosen by God to expand west and to spread civilization

Question 2

Sioux assimilation to white life

Answer 2

The Sioux were forced to go to traditional school, couldn’t speak in native tongue, dress as white men do, attend church

Question 3

Economic Institutions of west

Answer 3

Mining, Agricultural/farming, ranchers

Question 4

Homestead Act

Answer 4

Offer citizens up to 160 acres in West, stay and maintain land for 5 years, you get title to land

Question 5

Dawes Act

Answer 5

1. Division of Sioux land in 6 district reservations 2. Division of each new reservation into 168 acres for each person 3. Access lands sold to white settlers 4. Railroads added. Statehood for Dakotas, and to put white and Native Americans together

Question 6

Pacific Railway Act

Answer 6

government gives more than 125 million acres to railroads

Question 7

capitalism

Answer 7

Private business run most industries, and competition determines how much goods cost and workers are paid

Question 8

Laissez-faire

Answer 8

“let people do as they choose”; no government interference in business

Question 9

Corporation

Answer 9

A company that sells shares of ownership, called stock, to investors in order to raise money

Question 10

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 10

Outlawed monopolies and trusts that restrained trade to ensure competition

Question 11

Industrial working conditions

Answer 11

Children worked 12 hour shifts for pennies a day; me paid more than children, woman and African Americans; workplace unsafe-deaths; weren’t any sick days-didn’t show up lost job

Question 12

Laborers response to working conditions

Answer 12

Unions-fighting for the rights of working people- eight-hour work day, equal pay for equal work, ending child labor

Question 13

Reason immigrants came to America

Answer 13

To be with family; more opportunities; job opportunities/education; better life’s for family; escape from something bad

Question 14

Immigrant life

Answer 14

hard to find jobs; hard to learn English; children had better experience than parents; feeling homesick; discriminated against

Question 15

Spoils system

Answer 15

Gave favors/jobs to government family/friends or as favors

Question 16

Civil Service Commission

Answer 16

A government agency that is constituted by legislature to regulate the employment and working conditions of civil servants, oversee hiring and promotions, and promote the values of public service

Question 17

Civil Service Reform

Answer 17

Civil service jobs based on exams

Question 18

Political bosses/political machines

Answer 18

Citizens getting favors/bribes to vote for a certain person so they can become wealthy and gain power through corruption

Question 19

Graft

Answer 19

unscrupulous use of one’s position to gain profit or advantage

Question 20

Populist Party supported

Answer 20

William Jennings Bryan

Question 21

Free silver

Answer 21

idea that we were going to make dollar worth less by making the dollar backed by silver instead of gold

Question 22

Explain the role Manifest Destiny had in America’s expansion west

Answer 22

• American’s needed to control all of west
• Forced them to kick Native Americans off of their land and make them assimilate to white life
• Caused conflict between Native Americans and America’s during expansion
• MD made it more likely for American’s to move west because God was telling them to expand territory

Question 23

Explain the impact capitalism and laissez-faire had on shaping the economy and labor force in the US

Answer 23

• Capitalism’s idea of competition was a very big driver for how much worker’s were paid
• gov had to break laissez-faire and regulate trusts and monopolies because those got rid of competition
• Without a little regulation, companies in monopolies would charge a lot for their product and pay workers nothing
• Sherman Antitrust Act to ensure competition
• Capitalism helps make sure workers get paid a good amount and that the price of goods is a fair amount

Question 24

Explain how the political practices of The Gilded Age impacted communities and voters

Answer 24

• ability of people to get jobs through Spoils System
• communities didn’t trust government as much, and didn’t like where tax dollars were going
• Political machines bribed people so they would get what they wanted
• Samuel Tilden lost presidential election he should have won
• helped communities become more wealthy, unified, and helped build them to what they are today

Question 25

Rewards of society

Answer 25

• Native Americans eventually assimilated to white life
• It helped bring the north and south together again with the idea of MD
• People were able to unite under the idea that God wanted them to move west (R +D)

Question 26

Costs of society

Answer 26

• many issues with native Americans (got into many battles as we tried to get them out)
• Woman, children and American Americans discriminated against and paid less
• Immigrants were discriminated against and couldn’t find jobs

Question 27

Rewards of Economic

Answer 27

• railroads systems created
• lots of land available to farm and ranch on
• mining and gold were found in many places

Question 28

Costs of Economic

Answer 28

• people having to work for very low pay for long hours
• unsafe working conditions
• children not able to go to school because of working on the farm

Question 29

Rewards of Political

Answer 29

• Through the Gilded Age, communities became very wealthy, unified, and built a foundation for today
• people able to get jobs and other services for voting certain ways
• Able to bring farmers together on issues with government and created the populist party

Question 30

Costs of Political

Answer 30

• Scandals by Grant involving gold made the community trust him and the government less
• Corruption is never good and this caused some people to get thrown in jail
• Political Bosses gives one group of people or one person all the power which can dictate what laws pass and who gets elected