The ironic name given by Mark Twain to the time period after the the Reconstruction
What is The Gilded Age
100
The biggest name in the railroad enterprise
What is Cornelius Vanderbilt
100
The American Protective Association and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 are examples of growing_____in America
What is nativism/antiforeignism
100
Prominent Union general in the civil war who later became a lenient Republican president.
What is Ulysses S. Grant
100
Any large example of corruption under Grant's presidency
Credit Mobiler Scandal
Whiskey Ring
200
The bill that signified the end of Republican resolve for racial equality and ended the Hayes-Tilden Standoff
What is The Compromise of 1877
200
Name two prominent inventors in this era
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
200
Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" ran parallel with the beliefs of this group of people
What is modernists
200
Honest man who came from the "Party of Disunion" that vetoed many welfare and military pension bills and faced the Panic of 1893 when he was president.
What is Grover Cleveland
200
An African American individual that differed from the other early reformer Booker T. Washington and disagreed with Washington's Atlanta Compromise and the ideals that came along with it
What is W.E.B Du Bois
300
The argument over the spoils system in the Republican Congress was between these two factions
What is Stalwart and Half-Breeds
300
Claiming that God mandated the wealthy to have wealth, this article also connects to the clause that social classes have no obligation to one another "Social Darwinism"
What is The Gospel of Wealth
300
Name 2 authors that were of important literary influence at the time
Mark Twain
Bret Harte
William Dean Howells
Stephen Crane
Henry James
Jack London
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Theodore Dreiser
Lewis Wallace
Horatio Alger
Henry George
Edgar Bellamy
300
Author of The Gospel of Wealth and sultan of the steel industry
What is Andrew Carnegie
300
An entrepreneur that took advantage of tobacco's growth in business by forming the American Tobacco Company of 1901
What is James Buchanan Duke
400
This tariff caused the Republican "Billion Dollar Congress" to lose support
What is Mckinley Tariff Act of 1890
400
Growing trust titans such as the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1870 and the American Tobacco Company in 1890 marking the presence of plutocracy lead to this Act
What is Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
400
Federal action that ran parallel with the ideals of National Prohibition Party and The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
What is The 18th amendment
400
Creator of the American Federation of Labor
What is Samuel Gompers
400
Evidence that railroads had grown in power, that it "bended time to its needs"
What is Time Zones
500
This Populist leader's (not candidate)ideals of racial equality largely caused the party to lose the election of 1892 to Grover Cleveland
What is Thomas Edward Watson
500
What was affected most by the industrial age?
What is Women
500
The growth of feminist power as seen in the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union also meant a this for urban life
What is Divorce and fewer children
500
Protestant evangelist that adapted teaching to growing city life
What is Dwight Lyman Moody
500
As mental and physical health of Americans grew, so did their thirst for entertainment, of which is basketball whose creator is