Gilded Age/Westward Expansion

What term did Americans use to explain "their belief that it was their divine right for European Americans to own all the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific."

• War Hawks

• Gold Rush

• Manifest Destiny

• Popular Sovereignty

How did the Homestead Act impact the American Dream?

• The homesteaders were given a land grant for educational colleges.

• The homesteaders were given free land to expand westward for the United States.

• Native Americans scared homesteaders from establishing new settlements.

• it gave the elite businessmen access to industrialization.

Manifest Destiny was the belief that...

• It was the United States' God given right to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
• Native peoples in the United States should be treated with respect.
• The United States should respect the land claims of countries.
• All people in the United States should have the right to vote.

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_______________ were African Americans who took advantage of the Homestead Act

• exodusters
• cowboys
• farmers
• mormons

How did railroads help with trade and economic growth?

• They did not help. They just polluted the environment for future generations.
• Helped cows eat more grass and grow bigger when they were moved to the train station by the cowboys.
• Provided a fast way to get crops and animals to the markets
• Provided a way to move the Native Americans farther West at a fast rate.

Farmers faced many economic problems in the late 1800s which led to the formation of what?

• American Protective Association

• People's (Populist) Party

• NAACP

• Department of Agriculture

Where is this quote from , " You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."

• William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech

• William Mckinley's Freedom of Mankind Speech

• Grover Celveland's I have a Dream Speech

• William Mcaroy's Bimetallism Speech

What was the 1 purpose of the Populist Movement?

• lasizzez-faire policies to continue to support big businesses

• raise prices of agricultural goods to support the financially struggling farmers

• beginning collection offers for the laborers in the factories

• implement more government regulation particularly with the railroad taxes

What was one way the farmer's combated their social issues

• creating secret meetings of all the male farmers to trade planting traditions

• creating The Grange where farmers and locals could share concerns and grievances

• creating The Omaha Platform in order to express their concerns of education for farmers

• creating the Greenbacks which was a society that celebrated the harvest moon every year for the crop

Silver and gold caused________money in circulation, causing prices to________. 

• less, increase
• more, increase