Westward Development: Economy
Who are John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie?
This is the primary method labor unions use to achieve their goals, refusing to work until their demands are met.
What is striking?
This was the primary pull factor bringing immigrants into the United States.
What is economic opportunity (primarily in factory work)?
The middle class was mostly made up of these, the in-between of the workers and business owners.
What are managers (or white-collar workers)?
Presidents during the Gilded Age were this, and most major social and political decisions were left to state and city governments.
What is weak, ineffective, etc?
This was the first major interstate strike in American history, a reaction to wage cuts in that particular industry.
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
These hubs, such as Chinatown and Little Italy, provided immigrants comfort in American cities and eased the transition to urban life.
What are ethnic neighborhoods (or ethnic enclaves)?
This philosophy, popularized by Andrew Carnegie, believed that the wealthy received their riches by the grace of God, and had a moral responsibility to use that wealth to better society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
This was the system of presidents giving out jobs to their supporters. This practice was ended after the assassination of James Garfield and the passage of the Pendleton Act, which introduced the Civil Service exam.
What is patronage (or what is the spoils system)?
This law saw the government give millions of acres of land to railroad companies, allowing for the building of the first transcontinental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
What is Plessey v. Ferguson?
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
The Knights of Labor, America's first major national union, which advocated for large scale reform of the American economy, fell into decline largely due to an anarchist bombing that became known as this.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
These were the primary regions from which the new immigrants of the Gilded Age arrived in America.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
This political philosophy, which advocated for government takeover of the economy and redistribution of wealth, gained popularity as a reaction to poor working conditions in the Gilded Age.
What is socialism?
Tammany Hall is an example of this, corrupt organizations that provided services to those living in the city in exchange for votes.
What are political machines?
This group, made up primarily of western farmers, banded together to fight against high railroad rates and corporate consolidation of farms.
What is the Grange Movement or Farmer's Alliance?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
These ramshackle apartments were quickly built to accommodate the rapidly rising urban populations, lacking in space, plumbing, and windows.
What are tenements?
This movement, made up primarily of white, middle-class Protestants, believed that it was their God-given duty to provide assistance to the urban poor, which would eventually evolve into the Progressive Movement.
What is the Social Gospel?
William Jennings Bryan gave this speech, attacking the Gold Standard and earning the nominations of both the Populist Party and the Democrats.
What is the "Cross of Gold" Speech?
Before the Civil War, the Great Plains were referred to as this, due to its aridity and lack of water and timber.
What is the Great American Desert?
What is the Atlanta Compromise?
The Hull House in Chicago, founded by Jane Addams, was an example of this, a place founded by middle class reformers to teach immigrants English and help them assimilate to American culture.
What are settlement houses?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony created this group, finally bridging the divide in the women's suffrage movement that had begun in the wake of the 15th amendment.
What is the National American Women's Suffrage Association?
These are three things that were a part of the Omaha Platform, the Populist Party's plan for the United States.
What is:
⭑The unlimited coinage of silver
⭑A graduated income tax
⭑Public ownership of railroads, telegraph, and telephone lines
⭑Government subsidies to assist in stabilizing agricultural prices
⭑An 8-hour workday
⭑The direct election of U.S. senators
⭑Increased voter power with the use of the initiative, referendum, and recall