Westward Expansion
Gilded Age
Entrepreneurs
Society
Govt. Actions
Final Jeopardy
100
This act provided free land to settlers who were willing to develop the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
The Federation of Labor was an example of this group that appeared during the Gilded Age.
What is a Labor Union?
100
This was invented by Thomas Edison in New Jersey in 1878.
What is the lightbulb?
100
This group of people were welcomed by industrialists because they were seen as willing to work for less money than most other workers.
Who are immigrants?
100
This established the principle that Congress could regulate some business practices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
200
After the Civil War, this region's economy increased due to government acts such as the Homestead Act.
What is the West?
200
This is the name of people who disliked immigrants coming to the United States.
What are nativists?
200
Using unfair business tactics was a common characteristic of this type of businessman.
What is a robber baron?
200
During this time, labor workers were concerned about the increase in immigrants because they thought they would do this.
What is take their jobs for lower wages?
200
This policy determined that the US government would have as little involvement as possible in the country's economy.
What is laissez-faire?
300
This act gave the federal government the ability to break up tribal lands and forced Native Americans to accept losing their land to become US citizens.
What is the Dawes Act?
300
The rapid growth of tenements and ghettos was due to this happening in cities.
What is population increasing?
300
These men became some of the first entrepreneurs in the US with their steel and oil companies.
Who are Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller?
300
This group helped immigrants assimilate socially into their communities through public works (and buying their votes.)
What are political machines?
300
This system provided incentives to inventors and entrepreneurs to produce better goods at lower cost.
What is the Free Enterprise System?
300
Explain how the company Netflix is an example of a company introducing vertical integration.
Netflix creates their own media (Stranger Things, Netflix original movies, etc.) and distributes it on their own streaming service.
400
This encouraged the growth of cities, settlement of the West, and creation of a national market when it was completed in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
400
These are two hardships workers faced in the industrial workforce that led to the creation of labor unions.
(I am looking for 2)
What are periodic unemployment and poor working conditions?
400
Carnegie's book The Gospel of Wealth best exemplifies this idea that was important to Carnegie.
What is philanthropy?
400
State governments would mandate classes for immigrants to attend to teach them English and Western traditions, a process known as this.
What is americanization?
400
The children of New Immigrants learning English in public schools is an example of this process.
What is assimilation?
500
Jobs in the industrial market attracted farmers and farm laborers, causing a shift in population from this area to this.
What is rural to city?
500
One major disadvantage of immigrants coming to the United States during the Gilded Age was that they couldn't do this.
What is speak English?
500
This system guaranteed inventors exclusive rights to use or license their inventions for a limited time.
What is the patent system?
500
The American public began to associate labor unions with radical acts of violence following this event in 1886.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
500
This act was the US government's first time enacting a law against immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?