People
A scientist responsible for creating the telephone, revolutionizing communication.
Alexander Graham Bell
Groups of workers from certain companies that banded together to protest/negotiate issues in their workplace
Unions
The name of the era in question, a metaphor for corruption shielded behind good looking advancements.
Gilded Age
Women, Children, Immigrants
A designated area of land set aside by the US federal government for Native American tribes, where they were forcibly relocated from their ancestral homelands
Reservation
A prominent American industrialist who dominated the steel industry during the Gilded Age
Andrew Carnegie
This is the economic and political policy of government staying out of the regulation of business.
Laissez-faire
Describe the difference between vertical and horizontal integration.
Vertical integration is when a company owns all steps of production. Horizontal integration is when a company buys out all of the competition.
The Supreme Court ruling that establish the legality of "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
Laws that were essentially black codes under a new name; stated laws for racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Industrialist that had a monopoly on the oil industry
John D. Rockefeller
One of the worst outbreaks of labor violence, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers stopped working due to slashed wages.
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The belief that the people at the bottom of the social structure are there because of their own shortcomings and poor choices. Similar to biology.
Social Darwinism
The railroad that connected the country from East to West
Transcontinental Railroad
The process by which individuals or groups from a minority culture adopt the customs, values, and behaviors of a dominant culture, often leading to a loss of their original cultural identity
Assimilation
Elected President in the 1896 election, this man helped establish the US as a world power.
William McKinley
This political party had progressive ideas that combated the negative aspects of economic growth.
Populist Party
This legislation was supposed to prevent the formation of monopolies.
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
The law that gave away Western land for very cheap to encourage expansion
Homestead Act
The law passed by Congress in 1887 that divided Native American tribal lands into individual allotments
Dawes Severalty Act
A prominent American politician, orator, and activist known for his strong advocacy of populism and progressive causes. Lost Presidential election of 1896
William Jennings Bryan
This group was one of the most popular unions, until the Haymarket Riot in Chicago scared most of its members away.
Knights of Labor
The belief that the rich were at the top because of their hard work, and it is now their responsibility to give back and help the poor succeed.
Gospel of Wealth
The argument made by Frederick Jackson Turner that the West was always an escape for Americans, and now that it is has been fully settled, what will people do?
Frontier Thesis
This was the first law restricting immigration based on national origin in US History.
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)