Gilded

Known as an entrepreneur who began his business with his own investment of capital and accumulated great wealth

• John D. Rockefeller

• William Jennings Bryan

• Theodore Roosvelt

• Boss Tweed

the process by which a company gains the ability to raise prices or exclude competitors

• monopolies

• reforms

• supply and demand

• free market

When arriving to the U.S, ________________ experienced unhealthy living conditions.

• immigrants

• settlers in the west

• Germans

• children

A migration of settlers to Alaska and Western Canada began with The ____________________

• Klondike Gold Rush

• California Gold Rush

• Texas Oil Rush

• Oklahoma Oil Rush

Americans who disliked immigrants were called-

• nativists

• deplorables

• The KKK

• The T.E.A Party

Congested, overcrowded, and pollution were some problems due to-

• Urbanization

• Westward Expansion

• The Klondike Gold Rush

• The Transcontinental Railroad

The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed due to-

• low wages & unemployment in the West Coast

• low wages & unemployment in the South

• plenty of jobs and high wages in the country

• plenty of jobs and high wages in the West coast

Sped up the production of steel

• Bessemer Process

• Atkins Reaper

• Barbed Wire

• The Transcontinental Railroad

___________________________ brought more employment opportunities for people in the cities

• Subways

• Atkins Reaper

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Telephone

Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Chinese Exclusion Act