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This person coined the term "Gilded Age" given to the time period of the 1870s - 1910s.
Who is Mark Twain?
Who are?:
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
This man originally developed the idea of evolution which would later be applied to Social Darwinism.
Who is "Charles Darwin"?
The timespan of Reconstruction.
What is "12 years" or "1865 - 1877"?
The American Federation of Labor accepted this type of worker, usually requiring additional training or certification.
What is "skilled" labor?
This term describes the growth of manufacturing throughout the U.S.
What is "industrialization"?
This form of reform by Progressives helped fight against the political corruption of the spoils system in government.
What is "merit-based hiring"?
This man applied the idea of "survival of the fittest" and the ideas of biological evolution of plants and animals to the ideas of how human societies develop.
Who is "Herbert Spencer"?
This type of set of laws represented how White Southerners continued to restrict the freedom of freed African Americans even during Reconstruction.
What are "Black Codes"?
This woman broke away from NAWSA and formed the National Women's Party, which became the most aggressive arm of the political movement.
Who is "Alice Paul"?
This phrase describes how rural living shrunk as urban living grew during the Gilded Age.
What is "urbanization"?
The backlash from a dinner at the White House with this guest highlighted the struggle of addressing civil rights reforms for African Americans involving Theodore Roosevelt and this famous African American activist.
Who is "Booker T. Washington"?
This specific aspect of Social Darwinism describes prejudice against someone based on their perceived value in society based on money or job.
What is "classism"?
This group of African American lawmakers were the very first to be elected to the state legislature in Georgia, making them the first ever African American state legislators in the South.
Who are Georgia's "Original 33"?
This term describes most early American colonists and identifies the particular groups most favored in the U.S. through Social Darwinist ideas.
This term described the attitude and policy of the U.S. government towards the economy and growing businesses during the Gilded Age.
What is "laissez faire"?
This amendment allowed citizens to vote directly for their U.S. Senators, something previously reserved for the state legislatures.
What is the "17th Amendment"?
This specific aspect of Social Darwinism describes prejudice against someone based on their ethnicity or country of origin.
What is "nativism"?
This man created a school of thought that was hugely influential in American History classes at both the college and high school level up and through the 1950s. It unfortunately led to the "Lost Cause" movement and was largely biased against African Americans.
Who is "William A. Dunning"?
Name the 4 Major Strikes of the Gilded Age.
"Great Railroad Strike of 1877"
"Haymarket Riot of 1886"
"Homestead Strike of 1892"
"Pullman Strike of 1894"
Partial points for at least 2 mentioned.
This man was just one example of how politicians and businesses of the Gilded Age corrupted the government and economy by using inside information to profit unfairly from government projects.
Who is "George Plunkitt"?
This lawyer became one of the most prominent Progressive lawyers of the Progressive Era, later becoming a Justice in the Supreme Court.
Who is "Louis Brandeis"?
This specific aspect of Social Darwinism describes prejudice against someone based on their perceived role in an empire or nation.
What is "imperialism"?
This man was the very first African American elected to the U.S. Senate, representing the state of Mississippi.
Who is "Hiram R. Revels"?
These two reasons were what caused the Progressive Movement to fade by the end of the 1910s.
What are:
"World War I"
and
"As more broad achievements were made, there were less people affected by the remaining issues to push further change." (minorities like farmers, immigrants, and African Americans had less people to vote, which meant not enough influence in government).