| A | B |
|---|
| Railroad companies | Government offered free land and loans to encourage |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Completed 1869, ran from east to west, labor by Chinese and Irish immigrants, important in Industrial Revolution |
| Homestead Act | Government gave free land to settlers to encourage moving to Great Plains, hard and many failed |
| The Dawes Act | Law to try an "Americanize" the Native Americans, assimilate them (make them act like whites) |
| Factors that Contributed to Industrialization | Improvements in railroad, new ideas, natural resources and laissez-faire |
| Laissez-faire | A "hands-off" approach by gov't to business, few or no restrictions |
| Interstate Commerce Commission | 1st government regulatory agency in response to unfair railroad practices (allowed by Commerce Compromise) |
| Gospel of Wealth | Idea of Andrew Carnegie to defend the rise of millionaires |
| Social Darwinism | Philosophers applied Darwin's survival of the fittest to business to justify vast wealth |
| Advantages of corporations | Can raise large amounts of capital ($) and protected like an individual by 14th amendment |
| Monopoly | Eliminating competition w/ complete control of an industry. Ex. Rockefeller w/ Oil |
