Industrialization and Technological Change
This major industry was monopolized by Andrew Carnegie and helped fuel the rapid growth of cities and infrastructure.
What is Steel
Most immigrants during the Gilded Age lived in these overcrowded and poorly built apartments.
What are tenements
This term describes the hands-off economic policy favored by most Gilded Age politicians.
what is laissez faire economics
This corrupt and racist post-Civil War labor system kept many African Americans economically dependent and tied to land.
what is sharecropping
The completion of this in 1869 connected the East and West and greatly increased settlement and trade.
what is the transcontinental railroad
This business strategy, used by many big businesses, involves controlling every step of the production process.
what is vertical integration
legislation that banned the immigration of an asian country to the United States
what is the chinese exclusion act
The most prominent political machine in this era, ran by William Boss Tweed
What is Tamany Hall
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
what is plessy vs Ferguson
This 1862 law offered free land to settlers willing to farm it for five years.
what is the homestead act
This act passed by Congress in 1887 attempted to regulate the railroad industry.
What is the interstate commerce act
reporters who highlighted all the negativites in the indurstial society, most prominntely in poverty and the meat packing industry
what are muckrackers
This political party, made up of farmers and laborers, called for free silver, a graduated income tax, and government control of railroads.
what is the populist party
This law broke up tribal lands and attempted to assimilate Native Americans into white society.
what is the dawes act
This massacre of over 150 Native Americans by the U.S. Army occurred in 1890 and is considered the end of the Indian Wars.
what is the wounded knee massacre
This process, developed by Henry ------- and later used extensively by American industrialists, revolutionized steel production and made steel more affordable.
what is the bessemer process
This 1886 event in Chicago turned deadly when a bomb exploded during a labor protest, leading to anti-union sentiment across the country.
What is the haymarket riot
This term describes the system in which political patronage and loyalty to party bosses secured jobs and benefits, prevalent during the Gilded Age.
What is the spoils system
This informal agreement ended Reconstruction by allowing Rutherford B. Hayes to become president in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
what is the great compromise of 1877
This government policy provided financial support for the building of another transcontinental railroad, which helped stimulate the economy and increase settlement in the West.
what is the pacifc railway act
An act passed in 1890 that tried to regulate big businesses and reduce the power of monopolies
What is the sherman antitrust act
founder of the hul house, a place for immigrants to get free social services and education.
who is jane addams
This reform law aimed to reduce incompetency within the federal job complex by requiring civil service exams (response to the spoils system).
what is the pendleton civil service act
This African American leader, often associated with the philosophy of self-reliance, promoted education for Black Americans and founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
In 1893, this historian argued that the frontier had played a central role in shaping American democracy and culture, and released his rationale about it called the frontier thesis
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