Unit 1 Review!

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Across
  1. 1. an 1887 law to deliberately destroy the Native American way of life and living, was meant to assimilate Native Americans into the American way of life, this was proven to be a failure
  2. 3. subdivided homes or apartments in New York City in the late 1800s and early 1900s were often crowded, dirty, lacked proper sanitation, and plumbing
  3. 7. a political party made up mainly by disgruntled farmers living in southern, western, and midwestern states, they wanted lower transportation costs, partial ownership of railroads, and easier access to farm loans.
  4. 9. battle between Dakota Native Americans and Minnesota National Guard and US troops near Mankato, MN, 39 warriors were sentenced to death by hanging, making this the largest mass execution in US history
  5. 11. in 1890, at the very end of the Native American ritual, the Ghost Dance, US troops fired on and killed 250 Native American Plains Indians, this was the last uprising of the 1800s for Native Americans
  6. 14. in the New York harbor, the main immigration processing center for millions of European immigrants from the 1890s to the 1920s
  7. 16. Native American Sioux warriors fought American US soldiers in Wyoming in 1876, known as a turning point in both Native American history and US expansionist history
  8. 18. leader in the steel industry, before his death he donated his $400 million to help build libraries, museums, and educational institutions
  9. 19. controlled the oil industry, was a ruthless businessman, established trusts to make his family wealthy for generations
  10. 20. a hard monetary policy in which American politicians wanted the US dollar backed by gold
  11. 23. in San Francisco Bay, CA, this processing center for immigrants handled most immigrants from Asian nations
  12. 24. the process of people moving from rural areas, other parts of our nation, or recent immigrants moving into the city
  13. 25. Because of President Garfield's assassination by a federal government employee, this was passed by Congress to make all federal employees take an exam and pass to be eligible for employment
  14. 27. after the Civil War, the US had to reconstruct, rebuild, and replenish southern States, now known as this to rejoin the Union states and industries
  15. 28. when a wealthy individual, such as Carnegie, shares their riches for the betterment of society
  16. 29. this was built to haul people, property, goods, and supplies to the west and the riches back to the eastern coastal cities
Down
  1. 2. was the replacement in some ways for the Knights of Labor, and still exists today as a union, mostly skilled workers were in specific trades or specific crafts
  2. 4. Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor are examples of this, when workers in a company organize for better working conditions, better pay, and better relationships with management
  3. 5. when one company, corporation, individual, or a nation's government controls all aspects of production, distribution, sales/selling, markets, and often prices of commodities/goods in a given industry
  4. 6. a way to have Native Americans or immigrants "absorbed" into American cultural practices and norms, often by force
  5. 8. the Democratic and Populist party candidate for President in 1896, he wanted silver as the standard to back the US dollar, he could not get industrialists to join his cause and he lost the election
  6. 10. inventor of the light bulb, his inventions helped create a consumer society and increase standard of living for millions around the world
  7. 12. when a third party gets involved in managing a businesses assets in order to generate additional monies, can be set up for an individual, family, company or a corporation
  8. 13. the period from the late 1800s to the start of the 1900s in which many Americans living primarily in major eastern coastal urban areas who accumulated millions of dollars
  9. 15. the theory that the strongest business survives by beating up the competition and thus surviving
  10. 17. an alternative to urban living, these were further from the central business district or downtowns in many major cities
  11. 21. a union to organize all workers, goals were for social reforms in the workplace, started the slogan "Eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, and eight hours for what we will (want to do)"
  12. 22. landowners or plantation owners owned the land and crops and "shared" the land with freed slaves, which was more of a theory than reality
  13. 26. citizens who help power and influence in southern states continued to dominate the political and cultural landscape by incorporating these laws where whites and black had separate but equal facilities