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Gilded Age
U.S. History Gilded Age Study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reasons for Western Expansion | Land and gold |
| Assimilation | Is when you give up your own traditions or ways to adapt to a new one |
| Dawes Act | This act allowed the U.S. government to break up communally owned Native American tribal reservations. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Act that excluded the Chinese, they were barred from entering the country because they took jobs away from the whites |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | This act gave 160 acres of public western land to any adult citizen or intended citizen who paid a small filing fee and agreed to live on and farm the land for five years |
| Why were Grangers Formed | This group helped lonely farmers, provided social and educational activities to combat isolation for farmers |
| Populist Movement | group was formed to help regular workers, political effort by U.S. farmers and working people who felt ignored by wealthy industrialists and corrupted politicians. |
| What was the main issue of the election of 1896 | Gold standard Vs. Bimetallism |
| Who said the Cross of Gold speech | William Jennings Bryan |
| Reasons for the industrial boom | Raw materials, Resources, Technology, labor, money, more Jobs |
| Urbanization-Why did everyone flock to the cities | Industrial Revolution centralized jobs, wealth, and infrastructure in urban hubs, while simultaneously reducing the need for agricultural labor in rural areas (More Jobs) |
| Immigrants-Coming to America Vs. What they experienced in America | Looked like freedom but was actually bad for their culture and people |
| Political Machines/Tweed Ring | Corrupt organizations that controlled the cities. Tweed took over new York |
| What was the goal of the Civil Service Reform | (Spoil system) A government administration that says jobs should go to to the most qualified people |
| Big business owners would often establish ( ) and ( ) to maximize company profits | Monopolies and trust |
| Laissez-Faire | an economic and political doctrine holding that government should keep its hands off the free market |
| Who benefits from the laissez-faire | Wealthy industrial Business owners and corporate leaders |
| Oil | Rockefeller |
| Steel | Carnegie |
| Railroads | Vanderbilt |
| Banking | Morgan |
| Vertical Integration | a business strategy where one company controls every different step of making and selling a product. |
| Why were industrialists labeled as both (Captains of industry) and (Robber Barons) | They amassed immense fortunes using ruthless monopolies, political corruption, and the severe Exploitation of workers |
| Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 | Illegal to form a trust, that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries |
| Labor unions | A union establish to help employees or children who were overworked |
| What role did the government usually play in labor union strikes? Who did they intervene on behalf | They sided with business owners and management during labor strikes |
| What efforts were put in place to keep African Americans from Voting? | Poll tax, Literacy Tax, and the grandfather clause |
| Jim Crow Laws | Following the ratification of the 15th Amendment in 1870, Southern states exploited legal loopholes and used violence to systematically disenfranchise African American voters. (Poll tax) (Literary Tax) (Grandfather clause) |
| Plessy V. Ferguson | ruling that upheld racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. |
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