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Immigration
Big Business
Railroad
Dawes/Homestead Act
100
This is the adoption of American culture as your own.
Americanization
100
Which of the 5 catalysts for immigration does the Irish Potato Famine fall under?
Environmental
100
Owning all of one industry is known as what?
Horizontal Integration
100
Where did the Union Pacific Railroad begin?
Omaha, NE
100
Who did the Homestead Act help?
Poor whites.
200
Taxes is an example of this type of cost for a business
Fixed Costs
200
Germans moved from Germany to what part of the United states?
Mid West
200
This is a person who starts their own business.
An entrepreneur.
200
How many days did it take to travel across the country after the railroad was finished?
6 days
200
True/False: The Dawes Act failed.
True: The Dawes Act ultimately failed.
300
What is another word for Horizontal Integration?
Monopoly
300
What was the name of the act that halted Chinese Immigration into the United States in the late 19th century?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
300
How did companies sell more products than their competitors?
By using advertisement.
300
Connecting the eastern and western parts of the country with the railroad being built ultimately did what for Americans?
Created nationalism.
300
What did the Dawes Act set out to do?
Civilize Native Americans
400
What is a specific example of vertical integration?
Andrew Carnegie's Steel Company
400
Political unrest and failure of revolution can fall under what two catalysts for immigration?
Political Reasons and Wars & Calamity
400
Explain Vertical Integration
Owning a part of each industry that creates a final product.
400
Because of the railroad being built, it was faster to travel from one end of the country to the other, but what was it as well?
It was also Expensive.
400
Why did the Homestead Act ultimately fail?
It did not encourage permanency and promoted large farms.
500
Give me an example of an Operating Cost for a business.
Wages, Supplies, etc.
500
Where did Africans settle in and why?
Southern States, because they were forced to.
500
What did Andrew Carnegie use to create his steel business?
Vertical Integration
500
Which railroad company was troubled by Native Americans while building their side?
Union Pacific Railroad Company
500
The original goal of the Homestead Act was what?
To create small independent farmers.