Standard 4 Vocabulary

Money given by the government to a private industrial company, often to railroad companies to aid in the building of transcontinental railroads.

• Homestead Act

• Tariff

• National Market

• Subsidies

A law granting western farm land to settlers for free as long as they created a home there; also promoted growth of the west and the national economy

• Dawes Severalty Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Pacific Railway Act

• Homestead Act

Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level ; buying a bunch of the same types of businesses to create a monopoly 

• Horizontal Integration 

• Westward Integration 

• Bottom Integration

• Vertical Integration 

Passed by Congress in 1890; prohibits certain business activities that reduce competition in the marketplace, and requires the United States federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies, and organizations suspected of being in violation

• American System 

• Homestead Act 

• 1st Continental Congress 

• Sherman Anti Trust Act

Exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices; when a single corporation controls a given product

• Subsidies

• Monopoly

• Labor Union

• Tariff

An association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests

• Scab

• Labor Union

• Tariff

• NAACP

The economic system that is characterized by (1) private ownership of property and (2) the use of that property to make a profit (capital) for an individual or a corporation 

• Communism

• Monopoly

• Socialism

• Capitalism

Question

An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean, and to give the gov’t use of the same for postal, military, and other purpose 

• Homestead Act

• National Market

• Pacific Railway Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

This Act was passed after the completion of the railroad when these workers were no longer desired

• Chinese Export  Action 

• Asian Exclusion Act 

• Japanese Exclusion Act 

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Government policy that attempted to foster Native American assimilation into American society by dividing tribal lands into farming parcels and giving them to individual Native American families. 

• Assimilation 

• Chinese Exclusion Act 

• Dawes Severalty Act

• Trail of Tears