Significant People
The leader of the New York Democratic Party's political machines.
Who was Boss Tweed?
What was Reconstruction?
This act gave federal grants to private companies to finish the transcontinental railroad.
What was the Pacific Railroad Act?
William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech exemplifies this particular economic debate of the Gilded Age.
What was the silverites v. goldbugs debate?
A writer who coined the phrase "Gilded Age"
Who was Mark Twain?
A civil rights advocate who argued for a focus on education, and for the "talented 10th" to take the lead.
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
What was Eastern Europe?
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What were the Granger Laws?
The capitalist that asserted his position as the most powerful man in America by bailing out the US bank.
A progressive who created the American Federation of Labor (a union for skilled laborers).
Who was Samuel Gompers?
Three technological innovations that changed America with industrialization.
What were (3 of the following) railroads, factories, Bessamer Process, telephone, electric light bulb, electric grid system, consumer cameras, the assembly line?
An act that regulated railroad monopolies; required railroad companies to publicize rates.
What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
An activist who set up settlement houses to help immigrants find jobs.
Who was Jane Addams?
Three of the four main industrial capitalists ("robber barons").
Who were Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt?
One of the tariffs that the US federal government enacted during the Gilded Age (one of the few ways they actually intervened in the economy)
What was the McKinley Tariff?
OR
What was the Dingley Tariff?
One of the first labor unions, focused on unskilled laborers
What were the Knights of Labor?
A school created to assimilate Native Americans.
What was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?
The deadliest industrial fire in the history of New York City; happened in 1911 and led to improved factory safety standards.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
A reverend who argued for nativism. (Social gospel but racist)
Who was Rvd. Josiah Strong?
This led to the growth of the middle class.
A strike that involved fighting between Pinkerton detectives and workers at a Carnegie Steel factory.
This act towards the end of the Gilded Age introduced civil service exams for those entering office.
What was the Pendleton Act
Three leisure activities popularized during the gilded age.