Tycoons and Unions
It was the term for the idea that government should do little to regulate the economy.
What is laissez-faire economics?
The majority of immigrants came from these parts of Europe after 1880 (must name one).
What is Southern and/or Eastern Europe?
People who advocated against the continued arrival of immigrants were known by this term.
Who were nativists?
This American, who founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881, was criticized for promoting "accommodation" and trade school degrees for Black Americans.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
Progressive reformers often sought to use this to reduce discord between workers and employers.
What is religion?
Never one to nullify their perennial complaint against these types of protective taxes, which had helped fund Union military efforts during the Civil War, both Northern and Southern Democrats opposed them during the Gilded Age.
This organization sought reforms to create a more cooperative democracy and a stronger governmental role in the economic system.
What was the Populist Party?
At one point, this oilman's net worth was equal to ten percent of the nation's economy.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
Some Southern planters suggested replacing newly freed Black Americans with this group of people, who were already filling Northern factories but would begin working Southern fields under at least one plan.
Who were immigrants?
This idea applied the theory of evolution to explain why some people succeeded based on their merits.
What is Social Darwinism?
It was the concept promoted by tycoons like Andrew Carnegie, who believed in the "duty of administering surplus wealth for the good of the people."
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
This group of reform-minded journalists weren't dirty, even if President Roosevelt thought their methods might be.
Who were the Muckrakers?
This law reformed the patronage system, created the federal civil service, and banned requirement of government workers to support political campaigns.
What was the 1883 Pendleton Act?
It was by coercion and not luck that most Tammany Hall supporters came from this immigrant group.
Who were the Irish?
The Granger Movement scored a major political victory with the passage of this law in 1887, which created the first federal regulations on business in history.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Sometimes in brick, sometimes shaped like a dumbbell, this type of structure almost always provided housing for immigrants who suffered its usually unsanitary conditions.
What were tenements?
They provided instruction in the English language and how to get a job; the first was Hull House, opened by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889.
What were settlement houses?
The Gilded Age led to the creation of these types of job positions, sometimes known as "captains of industry" for the role they played in the growth and success of the economy.
What were managers?
This Gilded Age movement endured a long struggle that lasted for several decades, often meeting with resistance from its male counterparts.
What was the suffrage movement?
This political party, which emerged in the United States in the late 19th century, opposed the shift from paper money to a metal currency-based monetary system to prevent private banks from grabbing more power.
What is the Greenback Party?
People in this profession would've responded enthusiastically when William Jennings Bryan roared, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
What was farming?
This labor union wanted to end child labor and create an eight-hour work day, but suffered a major loss in public support after the 1886 Haymarket Affair.
What was the Knights of Labor?
What is the 1892 Geary Act?
Using photographs to portray the squalid conditions in urban housing for immigrants, this Danish immigrant published How the Other Half Lives in 1890.
Who is Jacob Riis?
The rise of the middle class led to the emergence of this, as people started to have more disposable income to spend on goods and services.
What is consumer culture?
Take it as the truth — this progressive movement within late 19th-century Protestantism sought to apply Christian ethics to Gilded Age problems; it shared part of a name but not much else with Carnegie's philosophy.
What is the Social Gospel?
This scandal, which took place during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, involved skimming tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, alcohol distillers, and distributors.
What was the Whiskey Ring?
This group, which emerged after westward expansion led to more farming, sought to resist corporate control of agricultural markets.
What is the Farmers' Alliance?
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Eugene V. Debs, a famous Socialist, led a national strike in 1894 against this Chicago-based company as the Panic of 1893 led to lower wages for workers.
What was the Pullman Company?
This California political party, led by infamous xenophobe and racist Denis Kearney, most likely contributed to rising support for the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
What is the Workingmen's Party?
Promoted by white Americans during the Gilded Age, this process called for absorbing Native and new immigrant cultures into the dominant Anglo-American culture through conformity to language, foods, and customs.
What is assimilation?
The creation of libraries, amusement parks, and circuses were meant to fill this — something more middle class families had begun to have in the Gilded Age.
What is leisure time?
Passed in 1890, this federal law sought to bust the trusts and monopolies.
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Congress passed the Bland-Allison Act of 1878, which allowed for the limited coinage of this type of currency, which pleased "easy money" supporters such as farmers and disappointed "hard money" supporters such as bankers.
What was silver?
Boss Tweed, who once said "As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?", was the leader of this type of urban-based organization.
What are political machines?
An increasing number of people from this demographic group began to occupy clerical jobs, such as stenographers, typists, and bookkeepers, in the Gilded Age.
What is women?