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Gilded Age

By daisyyy.16

  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act
    law stating that any U.S. citizen could occupy 160 acres of government land in the west and if the settler improved the land after 5 years, they could keep the property

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Constructed between 1863 and 1869, it was a continuous railroad line that connected the eastern U.S. rail network with the Pacific coast on San Francisco Bay

  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    U.S. federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry which required railroad rates to be “reasonable and just”

  • Settlement Houses

    Movement to help poor urban in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors (Chicago’s Hull House founded by Jane Addams in 1889)