US History Gilded Age Unit Exam Review

What is industrialization?

• The shift from human and animal power to machine power.

• The process of moving from machine power to animal power.

• The belief that the United States should expand across the North American continent.

• The use of hard working immigrants to mine natural resources.

What are companies who dominate a specific industry (steel, oil, etc.) called?

• Monopolies

• Local Business

• Corporations

• Competitors

Americans who grew angry and resentful at the increased Immigrant migration into the country, especially those from Southern and Eastern Europe

• Nativists

• Populists

• Philanthropists

• Social Workers

Civil Service Reform was a response to what?

• Political Machines and the Spoils System

• Chinese Immigrants

• Indians (Native Americans)

• The need to regulate State Governments

Political Machines took advantage of what major groups?

• The Immigrants and the Poor

• The Immigrants and Big Businesses

• The Poor and the Chinese

• The Chinese and the Big Businesses

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

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

During the Gilded Age, there was an increase in ________________ and _________________ as people moved to U.S. cities looking for economic opportunities.

• Immigration / urbanization

• capitalism / imperialism

• communism / free enterprise

• reform movements / civil rights

The government encourage Native Americans and immigrants to adopt white culture in a process called ____________.

• cultural diffusion / globalization

• acculturation / industrialization

• assimilation / americanization

• overspeculation / urbanization