Comparison
This movement was against a certain social normality and was led by women and groups such as the Anti-Saloon League.
The Temperance movement
This class began to expand due to economic growth, access to higher education, and technological advances.
the Middle Class
The 20th president of the United States who was assassinated by someone he did not provide a federal job to through patronage.
James Garfield
This occurred in cities including New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston when struggling farmers migrated and foreigners immigrated into them.
Urbanization
Established between China and the United States and argued for equal trading rights in all China ports which were constantly being bought out by European powers.
Open Door Policy
Unlike the ideals of the Progressives, this concept includes the belief that the federal government should not help the poor, but should let “survival of the fittest” stand. The immigrants, the impoverished, and basically anyone who was not wealthy is seen as inferior under this ideal.
Social Darwinism
This was a social reform movement which opposed industrial capitalism and advocated for applying Christian principles to cure the ills of society and to create justice for the urban poor through the Middle class.
The Social Gospel
A socialist who formed the American Railway Union and led the great Pullman Strike. Believed that the government should own all industries and divide the profits among the working class who created products.
Eugene V. Debs
Speech given in 1896 condemning the gold standard and championing for inflated currency by the free coinage of silver. Supported by the populist party and farmers who desired bi-mettalism.
”Cross of Gold” by William Jennings Bryan
In 1900, two-thirds of Manhattan’s residents lived in these brick apartment buildings shaped like dumbbells, four to six stories in height.
Tenements
Similar to the Immigration act of 1924 which imposed intense restrictions on all immigration from non-European countries and targeted Japanese immigration, this act specifically named and targeted an ethnic group and banned their entry for 10 years.
Chinese Exclusion Act
A movement which gave farmers the chance to have a collaborative and influential voice during a time when Gilded Age capitalists were accumulating more and more wealth.
The Grange
A Protestant minister who believed that Americans were destroying themselves by letting "inferior races" intermix with them.
Henry Cabot Lodge (Nativism)
These islands were annexed on July 7, 1898 by a joint resolution and pinpointed the end of a long fight between natives and American businessmen for control of this government.
The Hawaiian Islands
In 1890, this association was formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
National Woman Suffrage Association
This economic ideology can be traced back to 1776 when Adam Smith published the Wealth of Nations and was the most prominent principle during the Gilded Age.
Laissez-faire economics
This movement was formed because of the significant increase of European immigrants and the urban poverty caused by industrialization and corrupt labor practices. Middle-class leaders joined underserved urban neighborhoods and opened their homes to local children, parents, families, and older adults.
The Settlement House Movement
Historian who presented his Frontier Thesis at the American Historical Association at the World’s Fair in Chicago. In his thesis he argued that the frontier provided social equality and economic independence, political democracy, and a safety valve for factory workers.
Frederick Jackson Turner
This society was formed in Kansas and allotted temporary shelter, employment, monetary aid and help in settling to those traveling as a part of the Exoduster movement.
Kansas freedmen's aid society
A new form of entertainment that arose during the Gilded Age. Included seven to ten live acts (ex. comedians, dancers, trained animals, etc.) A symbol of cultural diversity during the late Gilded Age
Vaudeville
Similar to the Great Migration of black southerners to the north, this mass migration of nearly 40,000 southern black people into the West was due to lack of federal protection of their rights, the growing of terror groups, and the segregating Jim Crow laws.
Exoduster Movement
This tax was introduced by Henry George who sought to bring a fair change by increasing taxes on the wealthy who were gaining disproportionate amounts of money based on their increasing value of land.
Single Tax on land
An American showman whose circus became popular among the middle class during their search for leisure time activities.
P.T. Barnum
This act was passed in 1881 and asserted that federal government jobs be granted according to someone's abilities and that government employees be chosen through competition.
The Pendleton Act
A political machine run by the notorious Boss Tweed which used unfair schemes to gain votes for their parties and steal millions of dollars from taxpayers.
Tammany Hall