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Gilded Age Review
Review for Gilded Age Unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This school was designed to assimilate American Indians into the United States' culture | Carlisle Indian School |
| Most Chinese immigrants experienced discrimination and prejudice from nativists in California because they were coming to work on the __________ __________. | Transcontinental Railroad |
| Houses that were designed to give specific services to immigrants seeking aid during the Gilded Age | Settlement Houses |
| These houses were cramped living spaces where disease and starvation were common. | Tenement Houses |
| "Old" immigrants came from West and North Europe, while "New" immigrants came from ..... | East and South Europe, China |
| Influx of Immigrants, huge wealth gap, overcrowding, lack of social services, and the need for jobs, housing, services, and infrastructure led poor people and immigrants to go to ____________ (Place, not Person). | Political Machines |
| This term refers to people who wanted to stop immigrants from coming to the country because they thought immigrants would "destroy" U.S. culture. | Nativists |
| Political Bosses used Political Machines to offer jobs, housing, and infrastructure to poor people and immigrants in exchange for their __________ in the upcoming election. | Votes |
| This person was in charge of Tammany Hall in New York City | Boss Tweed |
| What were some long-term effects Political Machines had on the United States' democratic system? | Recall Elections Increased awareness of corruption and a demand for accountability |
| Escaping persecution, wanting better opportunities and freedom, and escaping war are all factors why the United States experienced an influx of ___________. | Immigration |
| People joined these groups because of low pay, long working hours, poor working conditions | Labor Unions |
| This industry allowed America to become an industrial power, transporting raw materials from west to east, and manufactured goods from east to west. | Transcontinental Railroad |
| This economic opportunity resulted in a mass migration to California in the 1840s, increasing the population of the area and need for a Transcontinental Railroad | The California Gold Rush |
| Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller used these new types of business techniques to control an entire sector OR one level of industry to monopolize on Steel and Oil respectively. | Vertical and Horizontal Integration |
| This law was passed to generate migration to the west. It gave people 160 acres of land if they settled in the west for five years for a low application price of $18. | The Homestead Act |
| This law passed because white people claimed these immigrants were taking jobs. It was designed to stop immigrants from a specific Asian country. | The Chinese Exclusion Act |
| This law split up American Indian land and gave it to individual American Indians in order to assimilate them into American culture and stop them from uniting. | Dawes Act |
| This law passed because businesses were becoming so powerful that they were starting to influence the government. It was meant to control/regulate businesses from becoming monopolies (too big to control). | Sherman Antitrust Act |
| This law was passed because Farmers and small businesses were tired of monopolistic pricing on distribution from the railroad. It was designed to regulate (control) the Railroad industry. | Interstate Commerce Act |
| Invented the lightbulb that allowed businesses to stay open later | Thomas Edison |
| Banking Industrialist who loaned Thomas Edison $500,000 ($4.6 Million today) to start Edison's electric company. | J.P. Morgan |
| Industrialist who used horizontal integration to monopolize the oil refinement industry, Standard Oil | John D. Rockefeller |
| Industrialist who used Vertical Integration to monopolize the Steel industry | Andrew Carnegie |
| This man invented a new way to produce steel stronger, faster, and cheaper which helped build the world's first skyscrapers | Henry Bessemer |
| This term refers to the process of becoming "American". It mostly applied to immigrants AND Native Americans | Americanization |
| The absorption of people into another culture, specifically Native Americans. | Assimilation |
| A non-controlling policy that the government had towards businesses before and during the Gilded Age "Hands-Off" | Laissez-Faire |
| Economic activity characterized by manufacturing goods. This resulted in businesses taking advantage of workers, and workers joining unions. | Industrialization |
| Term used to refer to wealthy U.S. industrialist from the late nineteenth century who exploited resources and people to gain their massive fortunes | Robber Barons |
| Why is this era called the Gilded Age? | It is called the Gilded Age because the economy grew, and some people made a lot of money. This growth was at the expense of poor people and immigrants experiencing low pay and poor working and living conditions. |
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