Industrial Revolution part2

Transcontinental Railroad

A rail link between the east and west portions of the US

Gilded Age

A term coined by Mark Twain to describe the economic and social appeal the US had

Urban

Cities

Rural

Countryside

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

Sets a ban on immigrants from China

Nativism

Favoring native born or established immigrants over new immigrants

Tenements

Overcrowded and poorly constructed buildings in the cities

Industrial

Making items in factories 

Laissez-Faire

Hands off policy to the economy

Tariffs 

Tax on imports/exports

Patents

Issued by the government to protect an invention

Monopoly

One individual/company controls a majority of their field

Social Darwinism

Justified the economic disparity between business and society - survival of the fittest

Sherman Antitrust Act

Legislation that banned any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce 

Horizontal Immigration 

Consolidating many firms in the same business to one firm 

Collective Bargaining

Tactic of negotiating as a group with an employer

Reservations

Specific land set aside by the government for Indians’ use

Assimilation

Forced adoption of another’s culture

Ghost Dance

Native American ritual performed before battle - thought to protect the Natives from white Americans.

Dawes Allotment Act

Encouraged Indians to become private property owners and farmers

Homestead Act

Gave 160 acres of land to white Americans willing to move west and work the land

13th Amendment

Banned slavery in the US

14th Amendment

Granted citizenship to anyone born in the US

15th Amendment

Granted African American men the right to vote