Social issues
Adopting the cultures of a dominant group
What is assimilation?
This new mode of transportation was finished in 1869 and connected the east and west coast of the United States
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This economic belief contributed directly to the initial creation of monopolies.
What is Laissez-Faire?
A form of persuasion that was practiced by many in power. Involved an threat in exchange for a service or money.
What is Bribery?
This act incentivized settlers by giving them up to 160 acres of land for free by building a house and planting crops on the land
Social push in the late 1800s to Americanize immigrants and native Americans by teaching them white culture.
What is to Americanize?
This item was invented by Thomas Edison using electricity to power it. as a result, factories were able to work day and night.
What is the light bulb?
This Entrepeneur fought against the laws that restricted monopolies. He is known for his production of steel and his philanthropy.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Government jobs would be given to these people.
What is a friend of someone in power?
In 1887, this Act was passed to ensure Native Americans assimilated to American culture and giving each Native American family was moved off tribal land and given 160 acres of farmland
What is the Dawes act?
Worker unions fought for such things like, better working conditions, less work hours, and ____.
What is higher pay?
This process allowed the mass production of steel.
What is the Bessemer process?
Many ____ were formed in the Guilded age, for monopolies caused workers to have poor working conditions.
These people would use money to influence political voter outcomes.
Who are political bossess?
the prevention of railroads charging unfair prices was the result of passing this act?
What is the interstate commerce act?
These were created to help solve some economic disparities.
What are labor unions?
This steam-engine oil drill enabled the extraction of this substance from earth, John D. Rockefeller grew his empire out of selling it.
What is oil?
This John D. Rockefeller owned business was an example of a monopoly.
What is Rockefeller' Standard Oil?
Tammany Hall distributed food and jobs to immigrants in exchange for this.
What are votes?
This Act passed in 1882, banned Chinese workers from immigrating to the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
One of the first larger union groups fought to get equal pay for women, work less hours a day, increased pay, and end child labor
Who are the Knights of labor?
This process involved injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon and make it into steel, resulting in steel mass production.
What is the Bessemer process?
What is a Robber Barron?
Many factories used this type of labor to complete production. often using them to clean machines as they were small enough to fit in small spaces.
What is childe labor?
This act allowed the federal government to break up monopolies.
what is the Sherman Antitrust act?