Gilded Age: Immigration and Urbanization 3 MHS

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

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Civil Rights Era

• Roaring Twenties

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.

• An example of big business that was made possible by Captain of Industry Andrew Carnegie. It helped fuel industrialism in America and the manufacturing center was Pittsburgh.

• made manufacturing more efficient; light bulb led to more hours of work= more production

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

• True

• False

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

• Homestead Act

• Pendleton 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

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Pendleton 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

• Pendleton Act

• Homestead Act

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

• Union leaders

• Philanthropists

• Political bosses

• 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

• economic incentives offered by native countries encouraged emigration

• people moved to areas with government regulations similar to those in their native country

Which of the following was the main reason for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains during the late 1800s?

• Congress passed a law requiring all public lands to be sold at auction.

• Congress passed a law allowing people to claim public land and convert it to private property through homesteading.

• Speculators bought large parcels of land and then built factory towns to attract new immigrants

• Native Americans sold most of their tribal lands directly to railroad companies.