| A | B |
|---|
| temperance | groups that wanted to prohibit alcohol sales |
| Transcontinental Railroad | the railway from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic Coast |
| Irish and Chinese | the 2 ethnic groups that helped build the Transcontinental Railroad |
| tenements | Crowded overpriced partments with bad conditions |
| Social Darwinism | The idea that success in business is survival of fittest |
| Panama Canal | built after U.S. helped Panama gain independence |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Law to stop Chinese immigration after many came to San Francisco |
| segregation | when groups are forced to do something separately (attend separate schools) |
| assimilation | people from one culture become part of another culture (ex. Americanized) |
| Open Door Policy | refers to trade between China & other nations around 1900 |
| nativist groups | favored native-born Americans over immigrants |
| Gospel of Wealth | Carnegie's philisophy that wealthy must give $$ back to people through charities |
| Dawes Act | tried to replace reservations by giving Indians land to help them assimilate with whites |
