01-03
These 2 Acts encouraged westward expansion
Homestead Act & Dawes Act
was known as the "Father of the Political Cartoon" and helped bring down Boss Tweed
Thomas Nast
created Standard Oil, Horizontal Integration
John D Rockefeller
ends spoils system & creates merit system for government jobs; signed by President Chester Arthur
Pendleton Act
from Northern & Western Europe
OLD immigrants
connected the east & west coasts of US; encouraged westward expansion
Transcontinental Railroad
what was Tammany Hall
a political machine
J.P Morgan
1887; created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the railroad industry and prevent monopolies from forming
Interstate Commerce Act
mainly Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox religions
NEW Immigrants
can't buy land, discrimination, Jim Crow Laws, violence, KKK, sharecropping
man in charge of Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed
inventor and engineer who developed AC electrical system which is the foundation of electrical grid
1882; first significant law restricting immigration → prohibited Chinese immigrants from coming to the US for 10 years
Chinese Exclusion Act
little education/ did NOT know English
New Immigrants
Plessy v. Ferguson used what phrase to establish the Constitutionality of segregation
"separate but equal"
what process does industrialization lead to?
urbanization
Black American agricultural scientist who promoted alternative crops and farming methods
George Washington Carver
1887; authorized the President to break up reservation land and redistribute it to individuals/Native American families → goal was to break up tribes and force assimilation
Dawes Act
settled on farms
OLD Immigrants
what does the Compromise of 1877 do in the US
ended formal reconstruction in the south
2 major types of political corruption during Gilded Age
spoils system & political machines
created Carnegie Steel and was known for philanthropic efforts
Andrew Carnegie
1862; A law that granted 160 acres of western land to settlers willing to farm and improve it for five years, encouraging migration and agricultural development
Homestead Act
came with money & had a skill or trade
OLD immigrants