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This 1862 law encouraged western settlement by giving settlers land if they lived on and improved it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This process made producing steel faster and cheaper and helped fuel American industrialization.
What is the Bessemer Steel Process?
Crowded, often poorly maintained apartment buildings where many urban immigrants lived were called these.
What are tenements?
This political movement represented many farmers and workers who wanted economic and political reform.
What is the Populist Party/Populist Movement?
This Progressive reform allows citizens to propose a new law.
What is an initiative?
Completed in 1869, this transportation system connected the eastern and western United States and encouraged western settlement.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This term describes a market in which one company controls most or all of an industry.
What is a monopoly?
Workers formed these organizations to fight for better wages, hours, and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
Populists wanted voters, rather than state legislatures, to choose members of this part of Congress.
What is the U.S. Senate?
This Progressive reform allows citizens to vote directly on a proposed law.
What is a referendum?
This 1887 law attempted to assimilate American Indians by dividing tribal lands into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
This economic idea argues that the government should interfere as little as possible with businesses and the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
This process allows workers and employers to negotiate wages, hours, and working conditions as a group.
What is collective bargaining?
Farmers often supported government regulation of this industry because high shipping rates made it expensive to transport crops.
What are the railroads?
This Progressive reform allows voters to remove an elected official before the official's term ends.
What is a recall?
The process of encouraging immigrants or American Indians to adopt mainstream American language, customs, and culture is known as this.
What is Americanization/assimilation?
During the Gilded Age, wealthy industrialists could be praised by this term for creating jobs and donating money to society—or criticized as “robber barons.”
What is a Captain of Industry?
This 1882 law restricted immigration from one particular country and reflected growing nativism in the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Many Populist ideas later became Progressive reforms. What does this similarity suggest about both movements?
Both wanted government to respond more directly to economic and political problems and give ordinary citizens greater influence.
This amendment established the direct election of U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Railroads received large amounts of federal land during westward expansion. What was one major result of this policy?
It encouraged railroad construction and western settlement/economic development.
The Interstate Commerce Act and Sherman Anti-Trust Act both demonstrated what major change in the relationship between government and business?
The federal government began taking a greater role in regulating businesses.
Rapid industrialization attracted large numbers of immigrants to American cities. Identify one problem this rapid urban growth helped create.
Examples include overcrowding, tenement housing, poor sanitation, poverty, unsafe working conditions, or child labor.
Populists supported using both gold and silver to increase the amount of money in circulation. This policy was known as what?
What is bimetallism?
Match all four Progressive Era amendments with what they accomplished: 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments.
16th — Federal income tax
17th — Direct election of senators
18th — Prohibition
19th — Women's suffrage