The Gilded Age
The growth of big business
What is there was an increase of federal support during the Gilded Age?
Protected workers against harsh conditions and poor work environments
What are Labor Unions?
People moving back to towns and cities during the Second Industrial Revolution
What is urbanization?
The act that gave the Native Americans U.S. citizenship if they assimilated
What was the Dawes Act?
A period of time identified by political, economic, or social trends
What is the definition of an Era?
Also known as the Technological Revolution
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor
What are two particular labor unions?
What is urbanization?
Allowed people to purchase 160 acres for $10
What is The Homestead Act?
The blending of two cultures into one, or the adopting of language, culture, and practices of another group of people
What is assimilation?
Characterized by Industrialists using their connections with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power
What is one aspect of The Gilded Age?
Occurred between 1865 and 1900 as a result of the rapid industrialization of the United States
What is union membership increased because workers wanted better pay and improved working conditions?
A group of wealthy people who were interested in increasing their own wealth, engaged in corrupt political behavior, and did not care about the workers conditions
What were Robber Barons?
This is what a series of federal land grants contributed to
What was the increased settlement of the Great Plains?
A sector/industry that relied upon industrial advances for meatpacking as well as The Transcontinental Railroad for their trade
What is the cattle industry?
What was electricity?
Irish immigrant workers were discriminated against for this reason
What was for being Roman Catholic?
Wealthy business owners who contributed to universities, museums, and other philanthropic endeavors
What were Capital Industrialists who contributed to civic and social life in the United States?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Act that required all people wanting to run for government positions to pass a civil service test
What is The Pendleton Act?
This group of people (party) wanted to increase the amount of money in circulation
What was the Populist Party?
The rapid influx of immigrants made it difficult for the local government to provide basic services was one of the things that led to...
What is the expansion of machine politics in the late nineteenth century?
On of the ways these people/this group tried to gain voter support through making improvements in the urban infrastructure
Who were the political bosses?
One of the government's primary responses to competition for jobs on the West Coast
What was The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Factory jobs increased in the last half of the nineteenth century when the United States experienced vast industrial growth and factory jobs increased to meet production demands. This demographic change in the United States is most associated with this particular transformation
What is increased migration to urban areas?