Gilded Age 1
Pennsylvania businessman who made his wealth through steel.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
New York businessman who made his wealth through his oil company, Standard Oil.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
Act that gave 160 acres of land to those who paid a small fee and promised to live on and improve the land for five years.
What was the Homestead Act?
Invention that made the cowboys obselete.
What was the refrigerated rail car?
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Term for a thin layer of gold covering an object.
What is "gilded?"
Immigrant group comprised of immigrants from SE Europe.
What are the "new immigrants?"
Oklahoma land rushers who stormed Oklahoma's border at the legal time.
Who were boomers?
People responsible for moving cattle across great distances.
Who were cowboys?
Term for the act of presidents and other leaders giving people jobs in exchange for supporting them on their campaigns.
What was the Spoils System?
Groups of businesses owned collectively by a small board of businessmen.
What are trusts?
The idea that the "strong" will succeed in a society and the "weak" will fail due solely to their own shortcomings.
What is Social Darwinism?
Famous railroad that stretched across the American continent, connecting the eastern and western United States.
What was the transcontinental railroad?
Derogatory term for prairie farmers who loosened the ground's dirt and created dust storms.
What were sodbusters?
The ceremonial dance undertaken by the Plains Indians in response to US government abuses after the Battle of Little Bighorn.
What was the Ghost Dance?
Immigrant group comprised of immigrants from NW Europe.
What were the "old immigrants?"
Term for a single company controlling an entire market.
What is a monopoly?
The US government tried to eradicate this animal in order to wipe out the Plains Indians.
What are bison?
Route taken by several Native American tribes after being forced to move to Oklahoma.
What was the Trail of Tears?
Republican faction that supported the gold standard and high tariffs.
Who were the Stalwarts?
What is Ellis Island?
Book that stated that the wealthy elite should use their wealth to improve the lives of the poor.
What is The Gospel of Wealth?
What was Promontory Point, Utah?
Oklahoma land rushers who illegally snuck into the territory early.
Who were sooners?
Republican faction that supported government reform and "greenback" money.
Who were the Half-Breeds?