Causes of the Boom- Part 1 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryAmerica - 19th and 20th centuryA2/A-levelEdexcel Created by: _awesome_ECreated on: 17-05-16 11:32 The 'American Dream' was the idea of promoting hard work as anyone has the potential to go from nothing to something 1 of 19 Who were famous for achieving the American Dream? Carnegie and Rockefellor 2 of 19 What did the banking acts of 1863 and 1864 attempt to do? assert some form of federal control over the banking system 3 of 19 The USA was rich in which natural resources? Copper, Iron, Oil and Gold 4 of 19 The development of what after the Civil war allowed easier access? Railways 5 of 19 Laissez- Faire is the policy of... Leaving things alone 6 of 19 People favoured this policy as it had... Limited inteference/ regulation in business 7 of 19 The Mid-West produced... 30% of the world's wheat and 75% of corn 8 of 19 The problem with this was... Small farmer struggled to compete against larger ones 9 of 19 Vertical Intergration was a method of production which was... Where the company controlled all the stages of production and marketing of a product 10 of 19 There was huge influxs into the US between 1866-1915 of... 25 million people 11 of 19 Between 1900- 1909 there was... 8 million immigrants 12 of 19 USA expanded its Empire by winning... Spanish-American War (1898) 13 of 19 Tariffs are... Government tax on imports and exports 14 of 19 Tariffs encourages people to... buy products within own country rather than abroad 15 of 19 USA did not join the war for this geographical reason. They were nowhere near Europe so their borders were not threatened 16 of 19 America involved itself in a limited amount of war, the only three it did was... Britain 1812, Mexico 1848, Spanish-American War 1898 17 of 19 American created a policy of... Isolationism 18 of 19 USA did not join the war due to immigration... ...as many immigrants did not want to fight their own country 19 of 19
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