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Review Sheet

The West/Gilded Age/Big Business


Key People:
1. Cornelius Vanderbilt

2. Andrew Carnegie

3. John D. Rockefeller

4. Henry Ford

5. Terrence Powderly

6. Samuel Gompers

Key Terms:
1. Homestead Act (1862)

2. Pacific Railway Act (1862)

3. Union Pacific Railroad

4. Central Pacific Railroad

5. Transcontinental Railroad

6. Homesteader
7. Native American Reservations

8. Dawes Act

9. Laissez-Faire

10. Monopoly

11. Conglomerate

12. Pool

13. Trust

14. Vertical Integration

15. Horizontal Integration

16. Rebates

17. Social Darwinism

18. Philanthropy

19. Labor Unions


20. Collective Bargaining

21. Munn v. Illinois (1877)

22. Wabash v. Illinois (1886)

23. Interstate Commerce Commission (1887)

24. Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

25. New Immigration

26. nativism

27. Chinese Exclusion Act

Key Themes:
1. What factors caused the western frontier to close in the late 1800s?

2. How did immigrant labor impact the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869?

3. How did westward expansion impact the lives of Native Americans in the late 1800s?
4. Explain how the laissez-faire policy of the late 1800s influenced the growth of industry:

5. What business practices did entrepreneurs use to gain control of an industry in the late 1800s?

6. What are the goals of business owners?

7. How did robber barons use vertical and horizontal integration to eliminate competition?

8. Identify the working conditions of the Industrial Revolution:

9. What were the goals of labor unions during the Gilded Age?

10. How did government respond to early labor/management conflicts of the late 1800s?

11. How did government attempt to regulate business as a result of monopolies?

12. What was the experience of New Immigrants like during the Gilded Age?

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