Gilded Age Vocab. 2025

the process of stripping away your original cultural practices and customs to adopt the culture of your new environment

• Political Machine

• Assimilate

• Dawes Act

• Nativism

The railroad system that connected the eastern cities to the western frontier; construction completed in 1869

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Urbanization

• Labor Unions

• Gilded Age

businesses became wealthy, and some corrupt government officials supported business first policies

• Political Corruption

• Gilded Age

• 
  Robber Baron

• Monopolies

Law that stopped Chinese immigration in the US

• Dawes Act

• Espionage Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Government law (initiative) that granted applicants ownership of up to 160 acres of land out on the Western Frontier to encourage settlement and migration

• Espionage Act

• 
  Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• 
  Chinese Exclusion Act

The dislike of immigrants

• 
  Americanization

• 
  Irish Immigrants

• 
  Nativism

• 
  Immigrants

Who was a famous "Robber Baron" of the Gilded Age known for his monopoly in the oil industry?

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• J.P. Morgan

• John D. Rockefeller

The process of rapidly expanding industrial production during the Gilded Age is known as:

• 
  Urbanization

• Modernization

• Mechanization

• Industrialization

1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent

because they were ordained by God

• Manifest Destiny

• Westward Expansion

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air

through melted iron to quickly remove impurities.

• phonograph

• Steam Locomotive

• Bessemer Process

• Barbed wire