Big Business
This expansion most directly contributed to the rapid growth of big business after the Civil War.
What is the expansion of railroads?
Most immigrants between 1880 and 1914 came from this region.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
This act encouraged settlement by offering free land.
What is the Homestead Act?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This movement sought to fix social and economic problems.
What is the Progressive movement?
Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire is an example of this business practice.
What is vertical integration?
This immigration station processed mainly European immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
This group was most negatively affected by westward expansion.
Who are Native Americans?
This Supreme Court case upheld segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This novel led to food safety laws.
What is The Jungle?
John D. Rockefeller used these methods to dominate the oil industry.
What are trusts and rebates?
Immigrants settled in cities mainly to do this.
What is find factory jobs?
This law aimed to assimilate Native Americans into American society.
What is the Dawes Act?
Farmers formed this party to challenge big business.
What is the Populist Party?
This president was known for trust-busting.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This belief justified wealth inequality during the Gilded Age.
What is Social Darwinism?
Poor, overcrowded city housing was known as this.
What is tenement housing?
This system trapped Southern farmers in debt.
What is sharecropping?
One major Populist demand involving money.
What is free silver?
Roosevelt’s Square Deal focused on these groups.
Who are workers, consumers, and businesses?
This law was passed to limit monopolies and trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Political machines gained power by doing this for immigrants.
What is providing jobs and services?
The New South emphasized this economic change.
What is industrialization and diversification?
Journalists who exposed corruption were called this.
Who are muckrakers?
Progressive conservation aimed to do this.
What is protect natural resources?