Westward Expansion
Flat/ Grassland of Central North America that extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Great Plains
Situation in which one company controls an entire industry.
What is a monopoly.
She was the founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace.
Who is Jane Addams.
U.S. law that attempted to assimilate Indians by forcing them to speak english, worshiping Catholicism, cutting their hair, and changing their names to a anglo one.
What is the Dawes Act.
This invention was entirely use out in the west to keep out unwanted animals and people
What is the Barbed wire.
This new way of transportation opened up faster travels to the West.
What is the Transcontinental railroad.
Government enacted laws, due to the high injury/ death among these workers.
What is the Child Labor laws.
Wrote a book called The Jungle in which the author relieved the horrible, unethical way the meat industry was operating. And which lead to the creation of the Food and Drug administration.
Who is Upton Sinclair.
Community centers that helped immigrants address the problems of horrible living conditions, disease, illiteracy, and unemployment.
What are Hull Houses.
Was created to increase the hours of production so now industry would never close due to the darkness.
What is the creation of the Light bulb.
The idea that Americans should control the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny.
Organizations that protected the interests of the worker. They created the 40-hour work week and dealt with dangerous working conditions. They also organized strikes. Famous organizations included Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor.
What is Labor Unions.
Was Scottish-American industrialist business tycoon and philanthropist who controlled most of the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie.
This law limited this minority group from entry the US due to is fear of job-losses to American workers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Help increase the mass production of steal.
What is The Bessemer process.
As a demand for beef increased, cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the east by railroad. Famous trails include the Chisholm, Western, and Goodnight-Loving.
What is Cattle Drives.
Small companies join together to form one large company.
What are trusts.
An American industrialist business tycoon and philanthropist who owned Standard Oil and controlled 90% of the oil industry in the late 1800s.
Who is John D. Rockefeller.
This Law was passed to help out the farmers from the Railroad companies.
Was a law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the west
What is the Homestead Act (1862)
The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
What is Laissez-Faire.
This man believed that African-American should strive for more opportunity rather than settle for what they have.
Who is W.E.D Dubois
Outlawed business monopolies, but was not very effective at limiting the power of big business.
What is Sherman Antitrust Act.
Daily double
What are the 4 characterize of the Gilded Age?
what is Big Business, Industrialization, Corruption of Government, Labor union.