Railroads and Industry
This innovation made long-distance shipment of beef possible and linked western ranches to eastern markets
Railroads/Trains
Many immigrants arriving in port cities were hopeful because the United States offered this primary opportunity.
Job and business opportunities
The Pendleton Act reformed federal hiring by requiring this system for government jobs.
Civil service merit system
The Homestead Act offered applicants this specific incentive to move West
Land
What industry did Rockefeller have control over
Oil
Name the industrial process that reduced the cost of steel production and enabled skyscrapers and bridges.
Bessemer Process
Identify one pull factor that encouraged immigration to the U.S. during the late 1800s
industrial jobs / land availability
Explain how political machines justified their actions
They were providing a service for the people
Name TWO federal policies or practices used to assimilate American Indians in the late 19th century
sending children to boarding schools, dividing tribal lands into individual allotments, cutting their hair, dressing American, speaking English
How did the Bessemer Process help with the construction of early skyscrapers?
Lower prices on goods
Faster production
Explain why urban sanitation systems like New York’s “White Wings” became necessary
Rapid urban population growth produced large amounts of waste
Who were the two monopolist of the Gilded Age?
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Explain how the division of tribal lands into reservations affected tribal social and economic structures
Forcing them to become farmers, infertile land, not providing them seeds, loss of tribal traditions
Explain one economic effect of electric lighting on manufacturing hours and productivity.
How did barbed wire changed ranching practices on the Great Plains.
Enabled fenced ranching
What two reasons led to the rise of nativism?
loss of job opportunities, the immigrants were different
What is assimilation and give an example
Becoming part of the dominate culture
What was the purpose of the Dawes Act?
To take their land and "Americanizing" the Natives.
Describe two ways that industrial leaders like Carnegie used their wealth for civic purposes
funding libraries and donating to museums
How did the transcontinental railroads contribute to the economic growth of the U.S.
Railroads opened markets, lowered shipping costs, and spurred town growth
What were conditions of the tenement homes?
Crowded and poor sanitation
Evaluate the effect of laissez-faire government policy on labor conditions and business growth
Rapid business growth and innovation but allowed unsafe working conditions and monopolies.
How did the Transcontinental Railroad disrupt and destroy Native lands?
Railroads and mining drew settlers and military into the West, breaking up Native lands and accelerating settlement that ended the frontier
Andrew Carnegie funded what kind of institution as a way to help the people with the education
Libraries