U.S. History and Economic Policies Quiz

Law aimed at stopping monopolies, specifically Standard Oil

• gilded

• Transcontinental Railroad

• laissez-faire

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Operated Standard Oil Company

• gilded

• Transcontinental Railroad

• laissez-faire

• John D. Rockefeller

The belief that it was the destiny of the U.S. to acquire all Western territories

• gilded

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Manifest Destiny

• laissez-faire

This act prohibited unfair business practices by the railroads, such as charging smaller companies more to ship goods; it was the first time the government regulated big business.

• Homestead Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Dawes Act

Founder of a steel company in Pittsburgh, PA.

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• laissez-faire

• gilded

Golden and beautiful on the outside, but cheap/worthless underneath (ex. a gold ring that turns your finger green)

• gilded

• laissez-faire

• Manifest Destiny

• assimilation

Connected the east to the west; created national markets and sped up both travel and communication after 1869.

• Homestead Act

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Dawes Act

Government program used to encourage settlement in the West – granting 160 acres of land to settlers for farming.

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Manifest Destiny

• laissez-faire

The Dawes Act encouraged this amongst Native Americans by trying to make them farm.

• Manifest Destiny

• laissez-faire

• assimilation

• gilded

A policy that the government should not interfere with the nation’s economy or other matters; hands off.

• laissez-faire

• gilded

• Manifest Destiny

• assimilation