Moving West
This company built the part of the transcontinental railroad beginning in the east and building west.
What is the Union Pacific Railroad Company
What was the French Word called that said the government would be hands off in the economy?
Laissez-Faire
Passed in 1830 moving all of the eastern tribes west to Indian Territory (modern day Oklahoma?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists and captains of industry
Robber barrons
This Gilded Age captain of industry/robber baron is known as the father of philanthropy as well as a successful steel businessman.
Andrew Carnegie
This Gilded Age industrial owners encouraged labor unions. (True or False)
What is False?
Land, Labor, Capital, Technology, Entrepreneurship
What are the factors of producuction?
Number of children Mrs. Gray has
What is two?
money given by the government to a private industrial company
What is a subsidy?
Business owners tried to get rid of competition by owning entire/product or service in an industry. This is called a________
What is a Monopoly/Trusts?
What is the Reservation System?
A company that has complete control of the entire supply of goods or of a service in a certain area or market. Also a popular board game.
Monopoly
List two of the poor working and living conditions that many suffered moving into cities and working in factories.
Long Hours; Low Wages; Dangerous Working Conditions, Child Labor, etc.
How many colors are in a rainbow?
What is 7
Fostered the development of a national market linking all parts of the the country
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Mark Twain coined this term as a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
government policy that tried to help Native Americans assimililate into American society
What is the Dawes Act or Dawes Severalty Act?
What is Vertical Integration
The founder of the Standard Oil Company,
Who is John D Rockefeller
The rapid growth of cities due to the influx of people
What is urbanization?
List three factors of production
Land, Labor and Capital
In football, how many points does a touchdown have?
What is 6?
Law that give 160 acres to settlers for freee if the lived and improved upon the land within five years
What is the Homestead Act?
An group of workers, formed to ask for better working conditions and higher wages
What is a Union?
One of the boarding schools Native American children were sent to for help assimilating into American society
What is the Carlile School?
When you try to JOIN competing industries together so you can control the industry is called____.
A style of ownership.
It describes when a business buys competing companies in the same industry.
Horizontal Integration
In the Grinch that Stole Christmas what is the Grinch’s dog’s name?
What is Max
Majority of the workers for the Central Pacific Railroad Company
What are Chinese immigrants?
The performance of this led to the the massacre at Wounded Knee
What is the Ghost Dance?
An economic system in which a society's means of production are held by private individuals or organizations, not the government,
what is capitalism
Rock Hill High's boys' basketball coach
Who is Alex Fair?
land given to colleges and railroads
What are land grants?
The primary food source for Native American tribes in the Great Plains.
What is the buffalo (bison)?
a factor that brought immigrants to the U.S. throughout its history is a ______________.
Pull factor
seeking greater economic opportunity
hope for personal freedom
Jobs
This Amendment gave women the right to vote...finally!!!!
19th
What is the largest bone in the human body?
Femur