STAAR Review: Gilded Age/Westward Expansion

An act that removed Indian land from tribal possession, redivided it, and distributed it among individual Indian families to encourage assimilation

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Gospel of Wealth

Written by Andrew Carnegie; called on those who accumulated wealth to share their riches for the betterment of society

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Gospel of Wealth

Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Gospel of Wealth

Law passed to regulate railroad and other interstate businesses

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Gospel of Wealth

Founder of Standard Oil, used ruthless business tactics to force competitors out of business. Created a monopoly

• Nativists

• Political Machines/Bosses

• JD Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.

• Nativists

• Political Machines/Bosses

• JD Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

Corrupt bosses garnered political support (votes) of immigrants by providing social services for immigrants and patronage for their followers

• Nativists

• Political Machines/Bosses

• JD Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them

• Nativists

• Political Machines/Bosses

• JD Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

Complete control of a product or business by one person or group

• Monopoly

• Labor Union

• Philanthropy

• Assimilation

Charitable donation to public causes

• Monopoly

• Labor Union

• Philanthropy

• Assimilation