Government
This act subdivided reservations into small parcels of land and gave it to individual heads of households (Native Americans)
What is the Dawes Act?
!st Oklahoma homesteaders were known as what?
What are Oklahoma Boomers and Sooners.
This railroad connected the west and east coasts in 1869.
Transcontinental Railroad
Who was the King of Finance during the Gilded age?
Who is JP Morgan?
This is an influential person, who, through their business dealings, exploits others for cheap labor, government influence, or natural resources.
What is a robber baron?
This act suspended Chinese immigration in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Black farmers who moved westward to cultivate the land.
What is an exoduster?
This industry created time zones.
What are the railroads?
Who bought out his smaller competitors with regards to the railroad?
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This person is credited with inventing the phonograph, audio recorder, battery and the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
gave 160 acres of land if families pledged to live there for 5 years and farm the land successfully.
What is the Homestead act
This term refers to the Americans trying to absorb the Native Americans into their society and culture.
What is Assimilation?
This industry was a catalyst for growth during the Gilded age.
What is the railroads.
Who led the industry in steel production?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This is an influential person, who, through their business dealings, contributes to society in a positive way.
What is a captain of industry
This act made government jobs merit based rather than political patronage.
What is the Pendleton Act?
What is gold mining?
(1834) forbade whites from entering “Indian country” without a license
What is the Indian Intercourse Act?
This person sold roughly 90% of the oil in America at his peak.
Who is Rockefeller?
This business model owns all means of production for ONE stage of production for a particular good.
What is horizontal integration?
This term refers to little to no government regulation toward business.
What is Laissez faire economics.
A venture one can make large amounts of money in a relatively short time.
What is a Bonanza?
Andrew Carnegie produced cheaper and faster than competition by implementing this process into his factories.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Unskilled workers fought back against low wages, long hours, and unsafe working conditions by creating what?
What are labor unions?
This business model owns all stages of production for a particular good or project.
What is Vertical Integration?