Unit 1 Vocab (Wild West/Gilded Age)

The time period from the 1870's to 1900's. Called this because it was described to be glittering on the outside, but corrupt on the inside. ​ (a)  

• Gilded Age
• Americanize
• Populism
• Philanthropy
• Free Enterprise

A train route that connected the East and the West of the US for the first time. It was finished in 1869.​ (a)  

• The Transcontinental Railroad
• Immigration
• Urbanization
• Assimilation
• Interstate Commerce Act

Activities that were created to prepare the foreign-born population in the United States for participation in the American way of life. ​ (a)  

• Gilded Age
• Populism
• Americanize
• Homestead Act
• Urbanization

This passed in 1887, and it made the railroads the first industry that was subject to federal regulation. ​ (a)  

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Homestead Act
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Free Enterprise

This is like a political party, the members believed that there is a divide between the "common" people and the "elite". (Typically wealthy and well educated people were members) ​ (a)  

• Philanthropy
• Social Gospel
• Laissez-faire
• Populism
• Political Machine

Political party that gets members with promising illegal incentives like money, homes, or political jobs. Very corrupt, and has strong leadership control over the members, who were typically immigrants.​ ​ (a)  

• Political Machine
• Philanthropy
• Gilded Age
• Immigration
• Assimilation

A wealthy American having the responsibility to use their great fortunes to help further social progress in society. ​ (a)  

• Philanthropy
• Capitalism
• Materialism
• Greed
• Laissez-faire

The Supreme Court case from 1896 that ruled racial segregation laws did NOT violate the US Constitution. Established the idea of "separate but equal". ​ (a)  

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Marbury v. Madison
• Homestead Act

An economic system where privately owned business operates in its own competition, and they are free of state control. ​ (a)  

• Free Enterprise
• Socialism
• Communism
• Fascism
• Populism

Foreigners coming to live permanently in a different country. ​ (a)  

• Immigrants
• Urbanization
• Assimilation
• Americanize
• Gilded Age