Westward Expansion & Gilded Age

What migration pattern largely occurred during the Gilded Age?

• Countryside to Cities

• Cities to Countryside

• U.S. to Europe

• North to South

What reason was given to justify the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

• Chinese immigrants were becoming more wealthy than native-born people

• Chinese immigrants were assimilating too quickly into American society

• Chinese immigrant began to outnumber native-born Americans

• Chinese immigrants were taking jobs

What was ONE of the three major things labor unions fighting for?

• Longer hours

• More children in the workforce

• Higher wages

• Less regulation

What is the definition of a monopoly?

• Splitting up of a company into smaller companies

• A company without competition

• A company operating in a city

• A company owned by an immigrant

What is laissez-faire?

• A belief that the government should not interfere in private business

• A belief that government should heavily regulate business

• A belief that the economy should be fair to all

• A belief that companies should be heavily taxed

What industry did John D. Rockefeller make his money in?

• Steel

• Oil

• Banking

• Automobile production

What is horizontal integration?

• When a company buys up their supply chain

• When a company expands to compete with competitors

• When a company first opens for business

• When a company buys out their competitors

What is vertical integration?

• When a company firs opens for business

• When a company buys its supply chain

• When a company buys out its competitors

• When a company opens a location in another state

Why did 250,000 African-Americans move from rural areas to the cities during the Gilded Age?

• The end of slavery forced them to move to the cities

• African-Americans did not experience racism in the cities

• The U.S. government forced them to move to the cities

• Farm equipment became better and more efficient, making the demand for farm labor much less, and African-Americans moved to the cities for job opportunities

Who was the philanthropic entrepreneur who made his fortune in the steel industry?

• Andrew Carnegie

• J. P. Morgan

• Henry Ford

• Grover Cleveland