Miners, Ranchers, Farmers, & Native Americans
Name the 4 States in the Wheat Belt
North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas
Total control of a type of industry by one person or company.
Monopoly
What is an area within a country or city that is comprised of people who share a nationality or culture called?
enclave
Paper money that is not backed by gold or silver is called what?
Greenback
This president was assassinated when a man was angry that he did not get a job in the government after this president was elected.
James Garfield
What is the term that describes this: Economic philosophy that government should interfere as little as possible in a nation's economy
Laissez-faire
Name 2 of the 4 factors that helped the U.S. triple their GNP by 1900.
Natural resources, Electricity, A large workforce, and Standard of living improvements.
What 2 bills did President Chester A. Arthur sign into law?
The Chinese exclusion act and The Immigration Act (1882)
Name 2 of the 3 colleges named after wealthy businessmen of the time (late 19th century)
Stanford, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins
This is the company that Andrew Carnagie had to break up after it was ruled a monopoly. It was sold for $900,000,000 back then or close to $31,000,000,000 today
Carnagie Steel
How many acres of land did someone receive for a homestead?
160 acres
What is the Reduction in the cost of a good brought about by increased production at a given facility called?
Economies of Scale
What types of factors would be considered push factors? (name 2)
war, disease, famine, religious persecution, no work
Name one institution that still exists from the Social Gospel Movement that was aimed at helping the Urban poor.
Salvation Army or YMCA
The company John D. Rockefeller had to break up due to it being a monopoly.
Standard Oil
What was the last great land rush before the "Frontier was officially closed"?
Oklahoma land rush
This man used Vertical Integration to corner the Steel Industry.
Andrew Carnagie
What was the term called when you are hostile towards immigrants?
Nativism
When a newly elected President replaces government workers with people that helped him in his election is called what?
Patronage
What was the name of Oklahoma before it became a state?
Indian Territory
Type of mining that California farmers sued mining companies over.
Hydraulic mining
This man owned 90% of the U.S. oil supply at one time and used Horizontal Integration to do it.
John D. Rockefeller
What 2 cities in the U.S. had the biggest ports that the most immigrants came through?
San Francisco and New York
This act limited railroad rates to what were "reasonable and just"
Interstate Commerce Act
Name of laws that allowed segregation to become legal in public settings.
Jim Crow Laws