STAAR Review: Gilded Age/Westward Expansion

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An act that distributed land among individual Indian families to encourage/force assimilation

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Dawes Act

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Provided 160 acres of free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.

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Homestead Act

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Law passed to regulate railroad and other interstate businesses

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Interstate Commerce Act

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Founder of Standard Oil, used ruthless business tactics to force competitors out of business. Created a monopoly

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JD Rockefeller

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A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.

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Andrew Carnegie

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Corrupt bosses garnered political support (votes) of immigrants by providing social services for immigrants

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Political Machines/Bosses

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U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them

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Nativists

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One company has complete control of the market

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Monopoly

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Charitable donation to public causes

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Philanthropy

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An organization of workers (i.e. Knights of Labor & American Federation of Labor) that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

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Labor Union