Technology
Alexander Graham Bell invented this device during the Gilded Age to aid with communication.
The Telephone
Unofficial political organization that works to win elections in order to exercise power
Sometimes referred to as a shadow government
Rose to power in the late 1800s because of ill-equipped local governments that failed to meet the needs of growing urban populations
Machine Politics (Tammany Hall)
Founder of the Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycare, and child care classes.
Jane Adams
An act which helped Americans migrate to the west by having the government provide free land
The Homestead Act
The lack of government regulation in business was called this during the 19th century.
Laissez-faire capitalism
Thomas Edison (with help of Lewis Latimer) invented this device
The Lightbulb
The application of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to the business world; used by industrialists and social conservatives to discourage government regulation in society and explain why they were getting so rich.
Also gets used in white supremacist contexts, such as eugenics.
Social Darwinism
A system similar to slavery in the South which forced African Americans back into the fields after the 13th Amendment; Partially enforced by the Black Codes
Sharecropping
A military initiative to expand the US southwest
The Mexican-American War
Daily Double
Match the following Gilded Age tycoons/Robber Barons to their industry: (Standard) Oil, Railroads, Steel
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John Rockefeller
Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt - Railroads
John Rockefeller - Standard Oil
Carnegie - Steel
The first car, the Model T was put together in Henry Ford factories via this method of labor.
The Assembly line; Invented by Henry Ford
1887 Legislation that allotted each head of household 160 acres of reservation land; land deemed to be "surplus" beyond what was needed for allotment was opened to white settlers with the proceeds invested in education programs; designed to encourage the breakup of the tribes and promote the assimilation of Native Americans into American society. The historical significances that Native Americans lost about 90 million acres of treaty land.
The Dawes Act
This act to prohibit further immigration to the United States by Chinese laborers was the first act of congress to restrict immigration on the basis of race and nationality.
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Daily Double
The final divide between the North and the South which resulted in several states seceding from the United States
The Election of 1860
Late 19th-century movement Protestant movement preaching that all true Christians should be concerned with the plight of immigrants and other poor residents of American cities and should financially support efforts to improve lives of these poor urban dwellers. Settlement houses were often financed by funds raised by ministers of this movement.
The Social Gospel
The slur used to describe the men that monopolized technologies and businesses in the Gilded Age.
Robber Barrons
Daily Double
Women through the WTCU, black women through the NACW, (and black Philadelphia Societies since the 1780s) supported the temperance movement.
Name two women associated with temperance (they don't have to be from these orgs)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie A. Nation, Susan B. Anthony
Daily Double
A strike with both the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Unions resulted in violence and a President using federal troops for the first time since the 1830s
The Great RR Strike of 1877
Example of a "Total War" strategy used by the Union Army against the Confederacy which destroyed anything in its path
Sherman's March to the Sea
Daily Double
Strategy to maximize profits by attempting to purchase competing companies in the same industry; monopoly-building (ex. Rockefeller's Standard Oil)
Technique used by Carnegie where he combined into one organization all phases of manufacturing from mining to marketing.
1) Horizontal Integration
2) Vertical Integration
Daily Double
Site in Utah where the railway lines built by the Union Pacific (East to West) and Central Pacific (West to East) met in 1869, completing the first transcontinental railroad line and contributing to the integration of the western territories into the rest of the Union and the development of the Great Plains.
Promontory Point
American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
Eugene Debbs
What were the terms of the Compromise of 1877?
Federal troops pulled out of the South, ending the Reconstruction Era. Groups like the KKK gained in popularity.
Group of people/party who targeted immigrants by demanding economic and political restrictions upon them
Nativists/Know Nothing Party
What is an Interlocking Directorate?
The practice where individuals serve as directors on the boards of multiple companies, often creating connections and conflicts of interest between those companies, reducing competition