Gilded Age & Westward Expansion Test Review

A person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, especially by the generous donation of money to good causes

• Philanthropists

• Entrepreneur

• Good person

• Tycoon

In The Gospel of Wealth, he argues that very wealthy men like him had a responsibility to use their wealth for the greater good of society

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• JP Morgan

_____________________ gave awareness to the increase in difference between poor and rich in the country

• Populist Party

• Big Business

• Labor Unions

• Political Bosses

Cities populations grew in the West, expand in communication and commerce, and growth in settlers are due to-

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Klondike Gold Rush

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Telegraph

Agricultural products were in high demand because of-

• Population growth

• lack of jobs in the cities

• Westward Expansion

• The Great Migration

Big Business, Westward Expansion, bad working conditions, political machines, and immigration were issues of what time period in the U.S

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Building an Empire

• Civil Rights and the 60's

Native Americans were removed from their land and sent to reservations to-

• make land available for settlers

• make land available for immigrants

• protect the buffaloes

• clear way for the railroads

Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

Economic, political, and social events within a period of time is a-

• Historical Era

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Hysterical Period

____________________ gained power by providing immigrants with services.

• Political Machines

• Big Business

• Labor Unions

• Andrew Carnegie