US History EOC 10-Day STAAR Review

Movement from the American countryside to cities in search of jobs.

• Immigration

• Nativism

• Urbanization

• Migration

Allowed farmers to occupy unsettled land to build homes and farms.

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Dawes Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Homestead Act

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

• Hoovervilles

• Settlement houses

• Ethnic Ghettos

• Reservations

Intended to help Indians, it had the opposite effect by giving tribal lands to individual Indians, who often sold them.

• Dawes Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Homestead Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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

• Political machines

• Monopolies

• Labor unions

• Corporations

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

• Corporation

• Entrepreneurship

• Labor union

• Philanthropy

People who started new businesses based on their inventions, services, or ideas.

• Entrepreneur

• Political boss

• Monopolist

• Innovator

Economic system in which private businesses compete free of government control.

• Commerce

• Laissez-faire

• Traditional economy

• Free enterprise system

Organization of people in power who support a larger group in need in exchange for votes.

• Corporation

• Political machine

• Labor union

• Settlement house

A designation of land for Native Americans.

• Settlement houses

• Hoovervilles

• Ethnic ghettos

• Reservations