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Who are the "bad guy" business leaders
Robber Barons
What animal did Native Americans use all parts of
Buffalo
What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do
Prohibit Chinese immigrants from entering the country to find work
Name one benefit of the railroad
Economy, Travel, Nativism, Industrialization, Job Opportunities, etc
Laissez Faire
Lazy
Give an example of a pull factor
Job/economic/education opportunities, freedom of speech/ religion, group migration,
Assimilate
What did the Pacific Railroad Act do
Allow for the creation of the railroad
Majority of railroad workers were from
China and Ireland
When a company owns all parts of a business
Monopoly
Who founded the Populist Party
Farmers
Was used to keep in cattle
Barbed wire
What did the Homestead Act do
Encouraged people to move West by offering a free 160 acres for farming
Where are the Great Plains
the middle of the country
The name for a reason someone would want to leave their home country and immigrate elsewhere
Push Factor
Who taught American cowboys how to herd longhorn steel cattle on the open range
Mexican vaqueros
When settlers in the West began overkilling buffalo what was one impact on Native American communities
Limited food, skin for tools, fat for fuel/soap, hide for clothing or teepees, etc
Who benefitted from Laissez faire (lazy) governments the most
Big business owners
Companies could now sell their products where
Across the country
The "good guy" business leaders
Captains of Industry
What is Social Darwinism
T
True or False: Native Americans were forced off their land and sent to live on reservations in order to make room for people to move West
True
Explain Social Darwinism
Survival of the fittest
Name one industry that benefitted from the production of the railroad
Steel, Hotel, Coal
The official name for the use of two metals as a form of currency ($)
Bimetallism