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US Box Quiz 10

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Home Stead Act (1862) offered 160 acres of western land to settlers
Morrill Land-grant Act gave public lands to states & territories to found agriculture, mechanical arts and military science colleges
Transcontinental Railroad authorized by Congress and funded with land grants and cash loans (completed in 1869)
The Dawes Act (1887) an attempt by the government to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream American culture
Assimilate to absorb into a culture.
Social Darwinism this theory developed by Herbert Spencer encouraged the consolidation of businesses
Sherman Anti-trust Act (1890) a law that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade
Battle of Wounded Knee the massacre by U.S. soldiers of 300 unarmed Native Americans in South Dakota
John D. Rockefeller controlled the Standard Oil Company and held a monopoly
Andrew Carnegie controlled U.S. Steel and held a monopoly
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