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Briefly explain ONE significant social effect of Westward migration during the period 1845 to 1898.

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Briefly explain ONE significant social effect of Westward migration during the period 1845 to 1898.

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It brought together a lot of diverse groups of people and some were discriminated against because of their race or skin color.  This caused social and political controversy.  The oppression and even banning immigration of certain races such as the Chinese in the Chinese Exclusion Act, were caused by the westward migration.

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Briefly explain ONE significant economic effect of Westward migration during the period 1845 to 1898.

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Briefly explain ONE significant economic effect of Westward migration during the period 1845 to 1898.

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It definitely brought money to the West, because of all the immigrants moving in and taking up jobs there.  It boosted the western economy and as the populations went up the economy improved.  Also the westward movement shifted a lot of the wealth of the country to the western part of America.

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Briefly explain ONE significant cause of Westward migration during the period from 1845 to 1898.

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Briefly explain ONE significant cause of Westward migration during the period from 1845 to 1898.

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One of the biggest factors of westward migration was the California Gold Rush.  Many saw the gold rush as an opportunity to improve their lives by moving to California to mine for gold.  This increased the population of California significantly.

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Briefly explain how TWO of the four operated as forms of cooperation among businesses. (pools, trusts, monopolies)

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Briefly explain how TWO of the four operated as forms of cooperation among businesses. (pools, trusts, monopolies)

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Trusts were forms of cooperation because the companies all joined to form a trust to make sure everyone was included.  This way no single person could rise to power and destroy the competition in the oil industry.  Trusts made sure that everyone was united as one.  Pools brought cooperation about the industry in the sense that, all the companies had to come together to put together the money to back each other, kind of like a banking system.

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Briefly analyze the author's conclusion that Rockefeller's defense of the Standard Oil trust as "the antidote to social Darwinism" was an "ingenious rationalization"

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Briefly analyze the author's conclusion that Rockefeller's defense of the Standard Oil trust as "the antidote to social Darwinism" was an "ingenious rationalization"

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Because the way the author looked at it was that by creating trusts, they prevented any one greedy person from dominating the industry.  The trusts were viewed as the entire industry getting along and working together.  This made the "survival of the fittest" concept invalid for the oil industry considering that all of them were working together.