Gilded Age Test Review

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This stipulated that jobs would be given on merit

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Pendleton Civil Service Act

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What does this cartoon depict?

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Big companies (monopolies) have too much control

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This law was made to reduce competition for jobs on the West Coast because it prohibited immigration from China-

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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What was one way workers tried to get better working conditions?

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By joining labor unions

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process of teaching immigrants to become Americans (English, thriftiness, punctuality, and cleanliness)

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americanization

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The Dawes Act...

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divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation

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This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere.

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Dawes Act

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an 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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A law passed in 1890 that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrain trade.

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Sherman antitrust act

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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