USHC 4 Key Terms 22-23

The end of the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century

• Cattle drives

• Turn of the century

• Gilded Age

• Nativism

Journeys taken to drive herds to market.

• Philanthropy

• Vertical Integration

• Social Darwinism

• Cattle Drives

Act that said if you farm land for 5 years you get the land. meant to INCREASE western population

• Pacific Railway Act

• Dawes Severalty Act

• Homestead Act

• Horizontal Integration

Immigrants from Northern Europe (Sweden + Norway)

• "Old Immigrants"

• "New Immigrants

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• John D. Rockefeller

African Americans who left the South and headed West.

• Exodusters

• Ghostbusters

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Populism

African American soldiers who went West due to prejudice against them in the South.

• Moose Soldiers

• Bear Soldiers

• Buffalo Soldiers

• 54th Massachusetts

Allowed for the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Severalty Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Pacific Railway Act of 1862

Railroad that went across the United States. Connected the East to the West

• Union Pacific Railroad

• Central Pacific Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Underground Railroad

Helped pay for a program or effort with money and loans. Helped pay for the Transcontinental Railroad

• Protective Tariffs

• Government Subsidies

• Sweatshops

• Temperance Movement

America set up land only for the Native Americans.

• Reservation System

• Trail of Tears

• Dawes Severalty Act

• Worcester v. Georgia