Vocab
This is a railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
This is the theory that human groups and races are subject to the laws of natural selection.
What is Social Darwinism
This is the treaty under which the Sioux tribe agreed to have full control of the Black Hills
What is the Treaty of Ft. Laramie
This is an act where a US citizen is promised 160 acres of land.
What is the Homestead Act
This guy was one of the four biggest entrepreneurs of this time and specialized in railroads
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt
This is an 1882 law that barred Chinese laborers from entering the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
This is the movement of population from farms to cities.
What is Urbanization
This is the battle in which the Sioux tribe fought Gen. Custer and his cavalry.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn.
This is the battle between Native Americans and the US cavalry that was caused by the Ghost Dance Movement.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee
This guy was one of the four biggest entrepreneurs of this time and specialized in steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
This is the idea that the government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
What is Laissez-Faire
This is a small apartment in a city slum building.
What is a tenement.
This is the book about tenements during the Gilded Age, written by Jacob Riis.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
This is the act in 1862 that authorized the Union and Central Pacific companies to build the first continental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act
This guy was one of the four biggest entrepreneurs of this time and specialized in banking
Who is JP Morgan
A business strategy in which a company takes ownership and control of multiple stages of its supply chain, from raw materials to final sales.
What is Vertical Integration?
This is the location known for being America's largest and most active immigration station from 1892 to 1924.
What is Ellis Island
This was the name given to towns during the Transcontinental Railroad that were described as rough and lawless.
This is where a company dominates one industry.
What is a monopoly
This guy was one of the four biggest entrepreneurs of this time and specialized in oil
Who is John D. Rockefeller
This is the belief that immigration should be limited to preserve the US for American-born, white Protestants.
What is Nativism
This is a business strategy where a company expands by acquiring or merging with other companies at the same level of the supply chain.
What is Horizontal Integartion
This is a 1869 competition between two companies during the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is 10 Mile Day?
These were the 2 transcontinental railroad companies
What is the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific
This guy was the general for the US cavalry in the battles against the native americans
Who is Gen. George Custer