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Industrialization
Urbanization
Immigration
Westward Expansion
Vocabulary
100

Some important inventions and innovations during the Gilded Age (at least 3)

What are the Bessemer Process, sewing machine, elevator, typewriter, telephone, telegram, powered engine, light bulb,?

100
Problems created by urbanization (growth of cities) (at least 3)
What are overcrowding, crime, violence, discrimination, noise, garbage?
100
Push factors of immigration (at least 2)
What are oppression, poverty, war, religious/ethnic persecution?
100
Reasons for westward expansion (at least 2)
What are availability of land, precious metals, and the railroad?
100
A company having complete control over the supply of a product or service
What is a monopoly?
200
Transportation across the country (from coast to coast)
What is the transcontinental railroad?
200
Reason many people moved from the rural countryside to the urban cities
What is the mechanization of agriculture (using machines for farming)?
200
Pull factors of immigration (at least 2)
What are freedom, jobs, family?
200
People viewed as being "in the way" of American settlement of the west
Who are Native Americans/American Indians?
200
The belief in the God-given right for America to acquire all land from ocean to ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
Terms for business leaders like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie (at least 2)
What are monopolists, captains of industry, robber barons, and industrialists?
300
Single-room apartments where whole families were crowded into often without lighting or heat
What are tenements?
300
The immigration station immigrants from Europe went through; the immigration station immigrants from Asia went through
What is Ellis Island; Angel Island?
300
Government plan which gave free/cheap land to American settlers who lived on and "improved" the land for five years
What is the Homestead Act (1862)?
300
The theory that government should not interfere in the free market
What is laissez-faire?
400
Workers grouping together to fight for better working conditions and job security
What are labor unions?
400
Ran corrupt city governments and controlled voting
What are political machines/political bosses?
400
Learning to dress, speak, and act like other Americans
What is Americanization?
400
Government plan to acquire Native American land rights by granting U.S. citizenship to Native Americans
What is the Dawes Act (1887)?
400
Land where Native Americans were relocated to live on their own independent lands
What is a reservation?
500
Economic system in the United States
What is free enterprise system (also free market, capitalism, or laissez-faire)?
500
Most famous political boss of the most famous political machine in the most famous city
Who is Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall in New York City
500
Hatred of immigrants
What is nativism?
500
Name for the forced removal of many Cherokee where many died along the way
What is the Trail of Tears?
500
Closed off the frontier and fenced cattle in
What is barbed wire?