Immigra-
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Port of entry for immigrants in New York
Ellis Island
Another name to describe the countryside
Rural
Owned a steel company; philanthropist
Andrew Carnegie
Idea that white Americans were pre-determined to settle all of North America
Manifest Destiny
Business arrangements to drive out competition by controlling prices of goods
Monopoly
Another name to describe high density city
Urban
Middle of the US where farmers/settlers moved (out west)
Great Plains
Owned a monopoly on the banking industry
J.P. Morgan
Battle involving defeat of General Custer by Native Americans
Battle of Little Bighorn
Journalists focused on investigating corruption or other malpractices
Muckrakers
Port of entry near California most closely associated with Chinese / Asian immigrants
Angel Island
Making someone the same/similar (US Culture)
Assimilation
Owned Standard Oil Company; got railroads to give him a better price over competitors
John D. Rockefeller
German, Scandinavian, Eastern European
Word that describes the Gilded Age's bribery and special interests
Corruption
Came from Southern and Eastern Europe to the United States
"New Immigrants"
Homestead Act
Owned/controlled a rail empire
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Form of transportation in the nineteenth century that moved goods/people
Transcontinental Railroad
Government does not interfere in big business "hands off"
Laissez-Faire
Restricted Chinese immigrants from entering the US; fear of job-competition
Chinese Exclusion Act
Act passed to assimilate American Indians
Dawes Act
Name of trust that was made up of multiple oil companies
Standard Oil Trust
Process that made the production of steel more efficient
Bessemer Process
Controlled NYC Politics; got huge influx of votes from Irish immigrants
Tammany Hall