1. U.S. History Review Units 2 & 3
25 Multiple Choice Questions
U.S. History Review Units 2 & 3
8 matching vocabulary

2. Gilded Age To appear gold in color
Realistically, some Americans were very prosperous but beneath the “beauty and expanding wealth” was a layer of poverty and corruption

3. Vertical Integration vs. Horizontal integration
Buying out all the raw material producers and distributors
Think of Coach C reaching up and grabbing all the things we need to make a McDonalds burger
Merging with (or taking over) companies producing similar products
Think of Coach C grabbing all the other companies that sell burgers

4. In the late 19th century, what directly contributed to the growth of the U.S. Steel industry?
The Bessemer Process (created by Henry Bessemer); this was a cheap and effective manufacturing process for making steel by removing carbon from iron
New technology
Advanced production techniques

5. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Regulated Railroad fairs
Lower excessive railroad rates
To stop monopolies engaging in unfair business practices
Outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade

6. What did business consolidation and trusts reduce during the gilded age?
Competition!

7. Labor Unions Organized workers to demand: Better working conditions
Better pay
8 hour work day

8. Inventions Alexander G. Bell Thomas Edison Wright Brothers
Christopher Sholes
Cyrus Mccormick
Elisha Otis
Telephone
Electric Light Bulb
Airplane
Typewriter
Reaper
Safe Passenger Elevator

9. Social Darwinism Survival of the fittest Hard working
Industrialization
Earned mass amount of wealth

10. What did the Plains Indians in the 1800s rely on?
What marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the plains Indians?
Horses
Buffalo
The extended Family
The massacre at wounded knee

11. Immigration processing stations
San Francisco : Angel Island
New York : Ellis island

12. New Immigrants vs Old Immigrants
Southern and eastern Europe
Northern and western Europe

13. Political Bosses
Controlled elected officials in local government office
Handed out patronage jobs
Made illegal profits on city contracts
Accepted bribes in return for favors

14. Chinese Exclusion act
Political leaders in California blamed unemployment and a general decline in wages on the presence of Chinese workers
The Chinese were not allowed to enter the united states
First immigration restriction in our country

15. Push Factors vs. pull factors
Oppression
Poverty
War
Religious/ethnic persecution
Freedom
Economic opportunity
Cultural ties

16. Factors that lead to the closing of the frontier
Railroad
Dawes act
Homestead act

17. Entrepreneurs of the gilded age
Often gave money to support construction projects in their communities through their philanthropy work

18. Political cartoons T: Title A: Actions C: Captions O: Observations
S: Summary