Gilded Age Vocab. Check

Economic practice that allowed large companies known as monopolies for form & control major U.S. industries

• Laissez-faire

• Assimilation

• Industrialization

• Political Machines

Match the following

• Gold Rush

• used to encourage western settlement by granting 120 acres of land to people who settled the land for 5 years

• Dawes Act

• Name used by Mark Twain to describe the time period of extreme economic success for the rich & unfavorable conditions for the poor

• Homestead Act

• used to force Native American Indians into assimilation by dividing reservation land into plots for private ownership

• Transcontinental Railroad

• contributed to western settlement as people migrated to California & Alaska attempting to "strike it rich" mining

• The Gilded Age

• Innovation that made travel out west faster and allowed easier transport of goods from the East to West coast

Belief that the United States should expand Westward settling all the land across the North American continent

• Wild West

• We will succeed

• Manifest Destiny

• Ultimate Destiny

Which of the following was NOT a stipulation for obtaining land through the Homestead Act?

• Head of Household

• 21 years old

• homestead & cultivate land for 5 years

• learn the English language

Which innovation helped to bring an end to the open range and long range cattle drives?

• Light Bulb

• Barbed Wire

• Electricity

• Gold Rush

In order for more land to be available to American Settler out west the U.S. government began sectioning off portions of land for Indian tribes to relocate to, these sections of land were known as...

• Outlaw Territory

• Tribal Plots

• Holy Land

• Reservations