Expansion
Belief that God had ordained Americans to settle land from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Manifest Destiny
List parts of the Populist platform
Graduated income tax
8-hour workday
Bimetallism
Continuous railroad line from Omaha, NE to Sacramento, CA
1st Transcontinental Railroad
Ownership of all similar businesses or supplies that leads to no competition and high prices
Monopoly
List the conditions in Gilded Age factories
6 day workweek
Dangerous machinery
Child labor
Dirty
Gave 160 acres of land to any adult citizen who lived on the land for 5 years for free
The Homestead Act
Exchange silver and other metals for paper currency
Bimetallism
Introduced by the railroads in 1883, will be adopted by Congress in 1918
Time Zones
Business leader who benefits the nation by donating to important causes or by driving economic growth up
Captain of Industry
Fire that happened as a result of bad working conditions that killed 146 people; mostly young immigrant girls
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
African Americans who moved from the South to Kansas.
Exodusters
Exchange gold for paper currency
Gold Standard
List results of the 2nd Industrial Revolution
Growth of factories
Oil
Steel
U.S. becomes an industrial power
Business leader who builds their fortune through corrupt means by creating monopolies or exploiting their workers
Robber Barons
Union that only included skilled workers from one or more trades
Craft Unionism
Large single-crop spreads around 15,000-50,000 acres
Bonanza Farms
Spoke all over the country for Populism and was involved with women's rights. From Wichita, KS
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Integration in which you buy out suppliers; reduces competition and brings in more money
Era of prosperity and wealth, but also corruption and inequality. Lasted from the 1870s-1890s.
The Gilded Age
Union that included all workers, skilled or unskilled, in a specific industry
Industrial Unionism
Giving up beliefs and way of life to become part of another culture, willingly or forced.
Assimilation
Major Populist figure until transition to the Democratic Party in 1896. Favored bimetallism and spoke out against the Gold Standard
William Jennings Bryan
Integration where you buy out businesses that are similar to you; heavily reduces competition
Horizontal Integration
The term Gilded Age was coined by a famous American author
Mark Twain
List the ways that corporations would try to prevent or end strikes
Ban union meetings
Fired employees
Forced new workers to sign contracts
Break strikes through force or bribes