The Developing West
Connected the eastern market to the western market in the United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad.
This industrialist revolutionized the steel industry, becoming the one of the richest men in America/the World.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Which newly mass produced product allowed cities to grow vertically?
What is Steel?
Organizations designed to control political powers in cities. Mostly known for corruption and coercing their followers to vote certain ways.
What are political machines?
This reform movement focused on banning alcohol from American society.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The nickname for African-Americans from the South that moved out West.
What are Exodusters
Type on monopoly where a company owns the means of production (from resources to shipping out their product).
What is vertical integration?
The countries were "Old Immigrants" generally from?
What are Ireland and Germany?
These included long hours, low pay, and were unsafe and unsanitary. Caused workers in factories to organize Unions.
What are Working Conditions?
This Supreme Court case made segregation legal under the Constitution.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This animal was hunted to near-extiniction during the development of the West post-Civil War
What are Bison/Buffalo?
Type of Monopoly where a company begins to buy out their competitors in the same industry.
What is horizontal integration?
Group of immigrants who worked out West on the construction of railroads. They faced harsh discrimination during the Gilded Age.
What are Chinese Immigrants?
He is one of the most notable "Bosses" of a political machine in US history.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
This political party was comprised of common people, mostly farmers and industrial workers. Wanted government control over railroads, a federal income tax, and easier access to credit.
What is the Populist Party?
This was the first state to grant American women suffrage in 1869.
What is Wyoming?
What is a negative nickname given to industrialists who were viewed as greedy and only out for themselves?
What are Robber Barons?
Jane Addams set up Hull House to aid new, poor immigrants with shelter, food, education, and child care as an example of these?
What are Settlement Houses?
They were the first major Organized Labor Union in the United States.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
These laws, primarily in the South, allowed for restrictions on African-Americans freedoms for almost a century after the Civil War had ended.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This act granted states 30,000 acres of public land to create colleges to support agriculture and mechanical arts to promote liberal and practical education to the industrial class.
What is the Morrill Land Grant of 1862?
Industrialist who set up the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John Rockefeller?
Urbanization refers to the growth of these in the Gilded Age?
What are cities?
This act allowed government to break apart trusts and monopolies, although it was not always the most effective.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890.
He believed the best way for African-Americans to integrate into society post-Civil War was through education and proving to society that African-Americans could contribute positively.
Who is Booker T. Washington?