Gilded Age Review #1

To encourage immigrants to maintain separate national governments

To assimilate immigrants and American Indians into a dominant American culture

To prevent immigrants from learning English

To expand immigration from Asia

Sherman Antitrust Act

Interstate Commerce Act

Homestead Act

Chinese Exclusion Act

It connected national markets and encouraged settlement of the West.

It ended all immigration to the United States.

It reduced the need for large-scale farming.

It prevented businesses from operating across state lines.

Pure Food and Drug Act

Sherman Antitrust Act

Homestead Act

Chinese Exclusion Act

To give the United States exclusive control of China

To establish equal trading opportunities in China

To end all foreign trade with China

To restrict American immigration from China

It restricted Chinese immigration to the United States.

It encouraged Chinese workers to settle in the West.

It granted citizenship to all Chinese immigrants.

It created equal trade access to China.

To regulate railroad practices and establish federal oversight of interstate commerce

To provide land for western farmers

To prevent the sale of unsafe food and medicine

To create immigration quotas

The Americanization movement

The Open Door Policy

Dollar Diplomacy

The free silver movement

It made western land available to settlers, increasing farming communities and permanent settlement.

It required railroads to stop expanding westward.

It ended federal support for immigration.

It gave corporations exclusive ownership of all western land.

It isolated western communities from national markets.

It made travel, trade, and migration across the West faster and easier.

It ended the growth of towns along transportation routes.

It prevented eastern businesses from investing in the West.