Unit 2 Study Guide-Immigration, Urbanization, and Westward Expansion

Mechanized Farming

The use of technology, machinery, and equipment to perform agricultural tasks 

Urban

The city

Rural

Countryside and farms

Pull Factors

People want to come and stay

Push Factors

Want immigrants to leave and not stay (Potato Famine)

Bessemer process

The first inexpensive industrial method for mass production of steel

Corporations

Large companies owned by stockholdes. It had raied big money for growth

Robber Barons

Men who became rich from cruel and unethical ways

Captains Of Industry

A wealthy man that made positive contribution

Monopoly

Having total control of a industry and owned by one person/ company

Transcontinental Railroad

Connexted from east to west which made 6 month trips to 6 day trips

Populist Party (Their Playform)

The people’s part

Angel Island

Processing center on the west coast. The place was a lot worse then Ellis Island compared to Ellis island

Ellis Island

Where immigrants first go on the wat to the U.S. to get processed on the east coast

Old Immigration

Had higher skilled workers from northern/ western Europe. They fit well and adapt easily to American Culture.

New Immigration

Lower skilled workers from southern/ eastern Europe. They didn't really fit well/ adapt easily into American Culture.

Nativism

Bron Americans and they are anti- immigrants

Immigration Act Of 1924

Restricted Southern/Eastern Europeans, banned most Asains

Social Darwinism

It is a theory of natural selection, survival of the fittest

Laissez-Faire

Tbe government does interfere with the economy

Trail Of Tears

Forced Cherokee and others to Oklahoma. Thousands died from disease and starvation

Assimilitation

Forced Natives to adopt American culture, language, and farming

Osage Nation

Native tribe displaced westward. Later exploited for oil wealth

Reservation System

Trives forced onto poor lands. Freed land for white settlement

Dawes Act

Divided tribal lands into private plots. Cause loss of native lands.

Ghost Dance

Spiritual movement promising return of buffalo and lands. Led to Wounded Knee Massacre

Manifest Destiny

t was the belief in the 19th century that the United States was divinely ordained to expand democracy and capitalism around North America.

Factors Of Production

Resources: Land (natural), labor (workers), Captial (money, machines)

Andrew Carnegie

Revolutionized Steel