Industrialization
Steel-making innovation that increased efficiency
Bessemer Process
Law restricting immigration from a specific group
Chinese Exclusion Act
During labor strikes, the government usually sided with...the workers or the employers?
The employers
Law giving land to settlers willing to farm it
Homestead Act
Practice of giving government jobs to supporters
Spoils System
Innovation that most transformed factories and allowed night shifts to become commonplace
Electricity
The building of this contributed to the settling of the American West by immigrants arriving from places such as China
Trancontinental Railroad
Hands-off approach to the government and economy...used by the "Forgotten Presidents"
Laissez-Faire
Rush for resources in Alaska and Canada in the 1890s.
Klondike Gold Rush
Reform to hire government workers based on merit.
Civil Service Refom
This industrialist successfully revolutionized the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
Many immigrants coming to the United States had to live in very unsanitary conditons in these...
Tenements
The best movie ever made
Napoleon Dynamite
The U.S government facilitated the mass killing of this to disrupt the Native American way of life.
Buffalo
Some critics during the Gilded Age argued that big business leaders unfairly reduced competition in the market by creating these...
Monopolies
This invention affected the economic development during the Gilded Age by facilitating the expansion of national markets.
Telephone
Increased immigration to the United States from southern and eastern Europe resulted in this anti-immigrant senitment
Nativism
One major characterisitic of the Gilded Age was the rise of BIG...
Business
The goal of this law was to further assimilate American Indian tribes into U.S. society.
Dawes Act
Name of Boss Tweed's political machine
Tammany Hall
Industrialization dramatically changed family life, pushing ___________ and __________ into harsh, low-paying factory work, often in dangerous conditions, to survive.
Women; children
These gained power in cities during the Gilded Age by providing services to immigrants and the poor
Political Machines
Famous school that the U.S government forced Native children to attend to "rescue" them from their Indian culture..."Kill the Indian, Save the Man".
Carlisle Indian School
Settlers who took advantage of the Homestead Act were dubbed this
"Sodbusters"
Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor
Labor Unions