Westward Expansion/Gilded Age STAAR Review

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

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

• Nativists

• Populists

• Philanthropists

• Social Workers

In 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.

• Nativist Act

• Mexican Reparition Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Under this policy in 1887, the U.S. Government sold Native Americans land in order to farm.

• Dawes Act

• Ghost Dance

• Trail of Tears

• Laws Act

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 

• geopolitical
• political bosses
• anthropolgy
• philanthropy

In 1889, during the Gilded Age, a Settlement House called Hull House was opened in Chicago. It was designed to help working class women, many recent immigrants, move out of poverty and dependence on others. It sought to address some of the excesses of industry and business. Who founded Hull House?

• Margaret Sanger

• Jane Addams

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B. Anthony

Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low

• Captain of Industry
• Robber Baron
• Philanthropist
• Consolidator

What industry did John D Rockefeller create a monopoly in?

• Oil Refineries

• Automobiles

• Telephones

• Steel

During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

What was a city government marked by corruption and bribery called?

• credit mobilier

• political machine

• corrected democracy

• electoral politics