Unit 2- The Gilded Age

Rundown overcrowded apartment houses.

Which social issue affected women during the Gilded Age?

To give up your old culture and adopt a new one

When one company has total control over a market.

An individual that is opposed to all immigration

Organization formed to advance its members interests likes wages and conditions.

What motivated most immigrants to migrate to America and start a new life in the late 1800's?

How did immigrants become Americanized?

What did the Homestead Act do?

Which government Act was passed due to low wages and unemployment on the west coast?

How did the Homestead Act change demographics on the Great Plains?

How did the political machines like Tammany Hall keep political power?

What movement applied Christian ethics to helping the poor and needy?

What government law was intended to assimilate the Native Americans into American culture?

Movement of people from rural areas into the city

Law designed to encourage settlement of the west. Gave away 160 free acres.

Organization where a boss rewards efforts of his supporters for getting politicians elected

How did the US government weaken the Native American tribes in the Great Plains?

What is the effort to increase the wellbeing of humankind through charitable aid and donations?

What were TWO big reasons for the increased settlement in the west during the late 1800's?

How did electricity help increase the productivity of factories?

Which early industrialist owned a steel company and gave millions toward schools and the arts?

Term given to the industrialist of the Gilded Age who treated workers poorly

Business leaders that takes financial risks to start a business

How did the United States feed its growing population?

Law that broke up reservations into smaller plots in order to assimilate the indians

How did the railroads help the western United States grow?