EOC #1: Gilded Age Vocabulary Flashcard

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Intended to help Native Americans, it had the opposite effect by giving tribal lands to individual Native Americans, who often sold them.

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Dawes Act

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People who started new businesses based on their inventions, services, or ideas.

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Entrepreneur

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The time between 1870 and 1900 during which the population and economy grew quickly along with political and corporate corruption.

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Gilded Age

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Allowed farmers to occupy unsettled land to build homes and farms.

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Homestead Act

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The process of moving to another country

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Immigration

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Federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry

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Interstate Commerce Act

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Worker organizations who fought for better pay and working conditions.

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Labor Unions

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A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.

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Laissez-Faire

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The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

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Monopoly

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Policies favoring the current citizens as opposed to immigrants.

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Nativism