US History GPS Review

Unit SixExpansionism to Progressivism

by Glenn Lewis, 2010

Part One

Standard Oil

big business

US Steel

railroads

cattle ranching

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Chinese labor

transcontinental railroad

started during the Civil War—finished in 1869

Promontory Point

westward settlement

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Gilded Age

Standard Oil

trusts

monopoly

John D. Rockefeller

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Gilded Age

US Steel

trusts

monopoly

Andrew Carnegie

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phonograph

Thomas Edison

motion picture camera

light bulb

“Wizard of Menlo Park”

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after Reconstruction

The Gilded Age

political corruption

Social Darwinism

conspicuous consumption

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Southern and Eastern Europe

New Immigrants

Ellis Island

growth of urban areas

nativism

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