The Gilded Age/Westward Expansion

This law gave settlers land in the West (especially the Great Plains region) as long as they developed it (farmed) for 5 years.

• Homestead Act

• Reservations

• Great Plains

• Monopoly

Poor areas of cities densely populated by people of common language and origin

• Fun ghettos
• Reservations
• Monopolies
• Ethnic Ghettos

This act was intended to help Native Americans acquire private land in the reservations, but instead they sold them. It was also intended to have Native Americans assimilate.

• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Anti-Trust

Worker organizations who tried to collectively bargain for better pay and working conditions

• Political machines
• Entrepreneurs
• Labor unions
• Corporations

The act of giving one's personal wealth to the benefit of society

• Philanthropy
• Corporation
• Free Enterprise System
• Urbanization

People who take a risk and start a business

• Entrepreneurs
• Political machines
• Sherman Anti-Trust Acts
• Ethnic ghettos

The growth of cities, especially due to immigration and movement of people from rural areas to cities in search of jobs is known as

• Reservations

• Homestead Act

• Ethnic Ghettos

• Urbanization

Economic system in which individuals (you) are free to produce, sell, and buy whatever you want with minimal government interference is known as

• Interstate Commerce Act

• This one is so difficult

• Free Enterprise System

• Dawes Act

Organizations run by a political boss in power who often provided jobs and services to immigrants and the poor in exchange for their votes

• Corporation
• Labor unions
• Monopolies
• Political machine

Native Americans were forcibly removed from their lands and resettled in these areas

• Reservations
• Amazing hotels
• Great Plains
• Ethnic ghettos