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a number of businessmen made large sums of money by gaining control of whole industries such as railroads, banking, or oil. The practice of controlling an entire industry is known as having a monopoly over that industry.
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reformers who wanted to “acclimatize” Native Americans to white culture, Congress passed the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887. The Dawes Act outlawed tribal ownership of land and forced 160-acre homesteads into the hands of individual Indians and their families with the promise of future citizenship.
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the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
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the General Allotment Act, the law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals. Thus, Native Americans registering on a tribal "roll" were granted allotments of reservation land.
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Settlement houses impacted the Gilded Age in a positive manner because they provided educational and recreational services to the community. Settlement houses provided education and help to the working class and spread rapidly throughout the United States.
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a marketing strategy in which a firm decides to ignore market segment differences and appeal the whole market with one offer or one strategy,also made possible the development of mail-order businesses
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The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census.
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It won labor agreement and improved conditions this was positive because the public could no longer ignore working conditions
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Japan's government limits emigration of killed workers to the US . This was positive because it gave americans more jobs and land.
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the factory caught on fire and 146 women died and was the initiative to set up regulations