Gilded Age: West 2 MOD MHS

Businesses became wealthy, and some corrupt government officials supported business first policies.

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

Railroads industry-

• Provided Farmers access to distant markets, allowed Americans to settle the West. The railroad industry will be monopolized by Cornelius Vanderbilt.

• companies that were engaged in producing, refining, and marketing oil were combined in the Standard Oil Trust; Oil industry monopolized by John D. Rockefeller.

Immigrants-Came to America for better economic conditions, farm fertile soil, jobs in factories; citizens wanted assimilation from immigrants.

• True

• False

persecuted because they were Catholic, built the railroad going West. (not the Mexican immigrants)

• Irish immigrants

• Chinese immigrants

Nativism-wanted restrictions on immigration; assimilation from immigrants

• True

• False

passed in 1882, passed because people in the West did not want to compete with immigrants for jobs.

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Dawes Act

passed in 1862, resulted in the settling of the frontier by farmers. Homesteader were given 160 acres if they could maintain it for 5 years.

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

Passed in 1887, law intended to assimilate Native Americans into American culture. (Cut up Native American land into square lot like the rest of the U.S. in hopes the Natives would start living more “American”)

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Which group of people most likely inspired the creation of this 1893 cartoon?

• Union leaders

• Nativists

This table supports the conclusion that in 1900 —

• people moved to areas with religious protections similar to those in their native country

• geographic proximity to native countries influenced immigration patterns