U.S. History Final Review

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Americans who were anti-immigration due to the fear of losing jobs to immigrants were called-

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Nativists

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This type of economic system during the Gilded Age allowed for the growth of big business and monopolies-

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Laissez-faire (hands off)

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During the Gilded Age there was an increase in ____________________ and ___________________ as people moved to U.S. cities looking for economic opportunities.

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Urbanization and Immigration

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During the Gilded Age, the expansion of ___________________ led to corruption in government, but also improvements in basic services and urban infrastructure.

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Political Machines

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Andrew Carnegie was an entrepreneur and a _____________ because he donated money to help the less fortunate.

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Philanthropist

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The government encouraged Native Americans and immigrants to adopt white culture in a process called ___________________.

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Assimilation/Americanization

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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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Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

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Upton Sinclair

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What amendment provided suffrage(voting) for women (1920)?

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19th

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What act created the Indian reservations that way the white man could create space for the Transcontinental Railroad and for the white man to expand West?

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Dawes Act