Notes

15. This type of monopoly involves buying each step of the production process (Carnegie Steel)
Vertical Integration

16. Purchase of companies at all levels of production
Vertical Integration

20. When a single company achieves control of a single market
Monopoly

25. How did the US government make land available for white settlers?
placed American Indians on reservations

26. What is one example of US government's assimilation of Native Americans?
Native American schools

27. Which phrase best completes the diagram?
Push Native Americans to adopt an agricultural lifestyle

31. What is the main idea of this cartoon?
The Standard Oil Company was a harmful monopoly.

34. The idea that Native Americans should give up their culture & beliefs and adopt the White Culture and Beliefs AND Those who were ordered to move to reservation lands.
Assimilation & Relocation

36. What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?
Sherman Antitrust Act

37. Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.
Assimilation

38. Which of the following contributed to the development of the Great Plains?
invention of steel plow
passage of the Homestead Act
completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

1. learning to dress, speak, and act like other Americans
Americanization

2. Belief that government should have limited interference in the economy
Laissez-Faire

3. The first railroad to cross the United States was the....
Transcontinental Railroad

4. Which law makes restraining free trade and competition illegal?
The Sherman Antitrust Act

5. Which law granted 160 acres of land to any male head of household willing to move West?
The Homestead Act

6. This political cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century?
monopolization

7. Based on your knowledge of the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making?
The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government.

8. The law that tried to force Native Americans into white culture in 1887 was called the
Dawes Act

9. Which group believed in survival of the fittest and people were naturally selected to succeed?

Social Darwinism

10. Federal land in the Great Plains was granted to white settlers with the passage of the
Homestead Act

11. Formed Florida east coast railroads to bring tourists to Florida
Henry Flagler

12. People who take financial risks starting a new business
Entrepreneurs

13. This area had rapid settlement because of federal land grants (free land)
Great Plains

14. Railroad owners wanted more people to settle on the Great Plains because...
farmers would use the railroads to ship products to markets in the cities

17. Why was the transcontinental railroad beneficial to America?
Railroads provided a faster, safer, and cheaper transportation.

18. This act offered up to 160 acres of public land to any head of a family (or >21 yrs old) who paid a registration fee, lived on the land for five years, and cultivated it or built on it.
Homestead Act

19. What impact did the railroads have on Native Americans?
the railroads limited their land and decreased their food supply and took away precious resources

21. This process converted iron to steel and allowed for taller buildings, longer bridges, and heavier machinery.
Bessemer Process

22. What was the purpose of the Dawes Act?
assimilate Native Americans

23. The Dawes Act...
divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation

24. What was the primary source of food for the Plains Indians?
Buffalo

28. This act gave Native Americans a chance at 160 acres of land for the price of Americanization.
Dawes Act

29. As Americans took over more and more land, what happened to Native Americans?
They were forced to live in reservations.

30. Believed successful people were superior and poverty was fault of poor themselves
Social Darwinism

32. Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?
Sherman AntiTrust Act

33. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
capitalism

35. This type of monopoly involves companies buying all of the similar companies (Standard Oil)
Horizontal Integration

39. Purchase of all competing companies in same industry
Horizontal integration

40. What transportation innovation lead to increased Western Expansion?
Transcontinental Railroad
41. The __________ process refers to the method to mass produce vast quantities of steel.
Bessemer