Early America-Gilded Age

The principle of the Constitution that states the people hold the ultimate power

• Separation of Powers
• Federalism
• Popular Sovereignty
• Republicanism

Who identified 5 values that were crucial for America's success as a constitutional republic?

• John Hancock
• John Jay
• Charles Carroll
• Alexis de Tocqueville

Law providing 160 acres to anyone willing to settle in the West

• Homestead Act
• Manifest Destiny
• Dawes Act
• Pendleton Act

Corrupt groups controlled political parties in the cities. A boss led the group; wanted votes. 

• Political machines
• Civil Service Reform
• Sweat shop
• Tenements

The belief the that the rich succeed because they are superior to the poor.

• Conflict Theory
• Social Darwinism
• Monopoly
• Laissez Faire

Act of Congress outlawing business monopolies

• Muckracker Act
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Progressive Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act

Controlled most of the steel industry, wrote "Gospel of Wealth; spent millions on philanthropy

• Rockefeller
• Carnegie
• Boss Tweed
• Bessemer

Signed Declaration of Independence, used wealth to help finance Revolutionary War, Catholic

• Benjamin Rush
• John Peter Muhlenberg
• Charles Carroll
• John Jay

Major group that worked on the Transcontinental Railroad 

• Chinese
• Russians
• Native Americans
• Europeans

Protected the  workers - made work safer and a 40-hour works week, organized strikes

• Trusts
• Monopolies
• Labor Union
• Shareholders