supreme court and important people
Who led the Pullman Strike?
Eugene debs
This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.
gilded age
In which industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?
steel
During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the US found work as
factory workers
What type of business did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act try to break up?
monopolies
Speech by William Jennings Bryan
cross of gold
Who coined the term "gilded age"?
Mark Twain
Cornelius Vanderbilt made his fortune in
railroads
One reason nativists worried about influx of immigrants in 1880s...
Considered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe a threat to traditional American cultural values
Ensure trading rights with China
In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the Book, How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob Riis
The innovation of this transportation help open up the national market?
railroads
John Rockefeller made a fortune in which industry?
oil
in 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.
Chinese exclusion act
In what area did the government give land to settlers to farm and expand west in the Homestead Act?
great plains
In 1889, during the Gilded Age, a Settlement House called Hull House was opened in Chicago. It was designed to help working class women, many recent immigrants, move out of poverty and dependence on others. It sought to address some of the excesses of industry and business. Who founded Hull House?
Jane Addams
What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?
political machine
"Survival of the fittest" applied to business competition
social darwinism
Many Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these groups of people mostly restricted new immigrants from entering the country.
nativists
Under this policy in 1887, the Government gave Native Americans land in order to farm land, just like European farmers.
Dawes Act
In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Wabash v. Illinois, Congress created the
Sherman Antitrust Act.
populists
Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder.
gospel of wealth
"New Immigrants" that came to the United States in the early 1900s were from which part of Europe?
South East Europe
Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.
interstate commerce act