westward expansion - prog

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The Gilded Age is infamous for

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businessmen bribing government officials

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The Homestead Act offered settlers

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160 acres of land if they would live on and improve the land

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During the Gilded Age there was a notable increase in federal support for

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the growth of big business

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Laissez-Faire Economics

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Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices

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Vertical Integration

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A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products.

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Horizontal Integration

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A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors.

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Push Factor

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A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region

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Ellis Island

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Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

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Tenements

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Narrow, low-rise apartment buildings common in cities during the Gilded Age

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Law that prohibited further unskilled Chinese immigration in order to reduce competition for jobs