capitalism and corruption
The policy of total nine interference by the government in economy translated as “leave it alone”
What is Laissez-faire?
Author who coined the term gilded age to describe a corrupt society covered by thin layer of gold
Who is Mark Twain?
The political did that remove federal troops from the south officially ended up reconstruction era
What is the compromise of 1877?
The crowded poorly built, multifamily apartment buildings were most urban immigrants workers lived
What are tenemants?
The Scottish born industrial Titan, who built the mass of steel empire and preach the “Gospel of wealth”
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The term used to describe journalist photographers who exposed the horrific urban poverty, and corruption of the era
What are muckrackers?
The collective name for state and local laws that enforce racial segregation across the American self
What are Jim Crow laws?
The processing center in New York Harbor that serve as the primary entry point for millions of European immigrants
What is Ellis Island?
The corporate giant who controlled 90% of the US oil, refined industry do his company standard oil
Who is John D Rockefeller?
The photo journalist who exposed 10 housing conditions in his 1890 book “how the other half lives”
Who is Jacob Riis?
The landmark 1896 Supreme Court decision that legalize segregation under the doctrine of ”separate but equal”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The massive 1892 labor strike at a Carnegie steel plant that turned into a deadly gun better with private gaurds
What is the Homestead strike?
Notorious political boss who ran New York City corrupt Tammany Hall, political machine
Who is William “boss” Tweed?
The social philosophy that applied biological natural selection to human society justifying extreme wealth and poverty
What is social Darwinism?
1882 federal law that ban all immigration from a specific Asian country for 10 years
What is the Chinese exclusion act?
The first major national labor union which collapsed after being falsely linked to the 1886 Haymarket Square riot
Who are the Knights of labor?
The 1890 federal law passed to band trust in Monopoly, though it was rarely enforced at first
What is the Sherman antitrust act?
Corporate strategy where a company buys out all of his direct competitors to control a single stage of production
What is horizontal integration?
The 1887 law aimed at assimilated Native Americans by breaking up all tribal lands into individually family plots
What is the dawes act?
In frustration network completed in 1869 that physically connected the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts accelerating gilded age trade.
What is the transcontinental railroad?