Gilded Age and Progressive Era VOCAB

Homestead Act of 1862

• An attempt to Americanize Native-Americans by teaching them White American Culture

• People will move to cities looking for jobs and houses

• Granted US Citizens 160 acres of Public Land in the WEST as long as they farmed on it.

• Encouraged the Free Enterprise System by allowing the President to break up Monopolies

Assimilation

• An attempt to Americanize Native-Americans by teaching them White American Culture

• People will move to cities looking for jobs and houses

• Granted US Citizens 160 acres of Public Land in the WEST as long as they farmed on it.

• Encouraged the Free Enterprise System by allowing the President to break up Monopolies

Urbanization

• An attempt to Americanize Native-Americans by teaching them White American Culture

• People will move to cities looking for jobs and houses

• Granted US Citizens 160 acres of Public Land in the WEST as long as they farmed on it.

• Encouraged the Free Enterprise System by allowing the President to break up Monopolies

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• An attempt to Americanize Native-Americans by teaching them White American Culture

• People will move to cities looking for jobs and houses

• Granted US Citizens 160 acres of Public Land in the WEST as long as they farmed on it.

• Encouraged the Free Enterprise System by allowing the President to break up Monopolies

Laissez - Faire

• Made it illegal for Chinese workers to come the the USA or to become citizens

• Allows women to vote

• People are outraged by how food is being handled causing the US Government to make the Food and Drug Administration

• A no regulation approach to businesses by the US Government

19th Amendment to the Constitution

• Made it illegal for Chinese workers to come the the USA or to become citizens

• Allows women to vote

• People are outraged by how food is being handled causing the US Government to make the Food and Drug Administration

• A no regulation approach to businesses by the US Government

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

• Made it illegal for Chinese workers to come the the USA or to become citizens

• Allows women to vote

• People are outraged by how food is being handled causing the US Government to make the Food and Drug Administration

• A no regulation approach to businesses by the US Government

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• Made it illegal for Chinese workers to come the the USA or to become citizens

• Allows women to vote

• People are outraged by how food is being handled causing the US Government to make the Food and Drug Administration

• A no regulation approach to businesses by the US Government

Monopolies

• Standard Oil or Carnegie Steel - One person in control of all of the Supply of one product

• Intimidating or bribing people for votes

• A railroad from the East Coast to the West Coast - Made traveling to the west faster and easier

• Bans the selling or consumption of alcohol

Transcontinental Railroad

• Standard Oil or Carnegie Steel - One person in control of all of the Supply of one product

• Intimidating or bribing people for votes

• A railroad from the East Coast to the West Coast - Made traveling to the west faster and easier

• Bans the selling or consumption of alcohol