Business
Economic philosophy promoted by Adam Smith in his book, Wealth of Nations, that stated that business and the economy would run best with no interference from the government
laissez-faire
party formed in 1892 whose platform focus was on coinage of silver and gold in addition to other progressive ideas (hugely supported by farmers)
What was the Populist Party
creator of the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
two major businesses/industries in the Trans-Mississippi West during the Gilded Age (besides the RR's)
What are mining and cattle?
a multi-dwelling building, often poor or overcrowded
Tenement
"Oil Baron", Standard Oil.
John D. Rockefeller
(1862) law that provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.
Homestead Act
(1877) strike in West Virginia led by Eugene Debs for railroad workers that spread nationwide. The President called in federal troops to put down the strike.
Great Railroad Strike
1876: AKA General Custer's Last Stand
Battle of Little Bighorn
policy that favors native-born or long-term resident individuals in the United States at the expense of immigrants
Nativism
technique used by Carnegie where he combined into one organization all phases of manufacturing from mining to marketing.
Vertical Integration
one of the two political farmers' organizations to assemble nationwide, forerunners of the Populists
The Grange or the Farmers' Alliance
American union leader and multiple times Presidential candidate for the Socialists ... he won almost a million votes from his jail cell in 1920
Eugene Debs
The primary reason that Indian resistance was inflamed in the west
What is the growth of the Transcontinental Railroads?
Describe common push factors of immigration at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries for the new immigrants
religious persecution, famine, overcrowding
a railroad that would cross the continent and connect the East to the West in 1869
transcontinental railroad
one common complaint among farmers was that they were overcharged by these
What is the RR's?
The Homestead Strike occurred at this person's steel mill
Who is Carnegie?
What is the Ghost Dance
A population shift from rural areas to cities and the ways in which each society adapts to the change
urbanization
Strategy to maximize profits by attempting to purchase competing companies in the same industry; monopoly-building (ex. Rockefeller's Standard Oil)
horizontal integration
Purpose of the Farmers' Subtreasury system would have been this
During most Gilded Age labor strikes, the government (local, state, federal) tended to do this
What is side with the owners/businesses?
1887: Designed to break up reservations into individual plots of land for Indians, and encouraged assimilation
Dawes Act
The first major legal restriction on immigration to the U.S. in 1882; prohibited further unskilled immigration from THIS country in order to reduce competition for jobs.
China (Chinese Exclusion Act)