Scandals
Attempted to control the U.S. Gold Market and caused the market to crash on "Black Friday."
What is Fisk and Gould scandal?
Federal legislation that prohibited most further Chinese immigration to the U.S.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
The advocacy for the unlimited coinage of silver by miners and debtors.
What is Free Silver Movement?
The use of lurid features and sensationalized news in publications.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Oil company that came to represent the trust and monopolies of the Gilded Age.
What is Standard Oil Company?
Fraud of contracts as finance companies made secret deals where the same people hired themselves to build the Union Pacific Railroad.
What is Credit Mobilier scandal?
Referred to as "the Gateway to the New World."
What is Ellies Island?
An agrarian movement in the 1870s that aimed to improve farmer's economic conditions through political advocacy.
What is Farmers Alliance?
Group of America writers who identified with pre-World War 1 reform and expose literature.
What are muckrakers?
Practice of dominating one specific phase of the production process in order to monopolize a market.
What is Horizontal Integration?
Treasury Department officials working with whiskey distillers to avoid paying liquor taxes.
Theory that human beings are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in nature.
What is Social Darwinism?
Political movement that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers.
What is Populist party?
Newspaper magnet responsible for spreading sensationalism journalism.
What is William Randolph Hearst?
Practice of controlling every single step of a production process in order to limit competition.
What is Vertical Integration?
Disputed presidential election of 1876 where Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote but states gave the electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes as he agreed to end Reconstruction.
What is Compromise of 1877 scandal?
Provided housing, food, education, childcare, cultural activities, and social connection for new arrivals.
What are Settlement Houses?
Speech that closed the debate on the party platform at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
What is Cross of Gold Speech?
American newspaper editor and publisher who helped to establish the modern newspaper.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
Supreme Court decision that prohibited states from regulating railroads.
What is Wabash v. Illinois?
Reason why Fisk and Gould were able to know secret information about the U.S. Gold Market.
What are bribery and personal connections?
Movement led to by protestant ministers who used religious doctrine to demand better housing and living conditions for the urban poor.
What is Social Gospel?
What is the Grange Movement?
Business malpractices that the "muckrakers" provided journalist accounts of.
What is corruption?
Legislation that established the Interstate Commerce Commision.