Key Terms
business leaders who use their wealth to positively contribute to the country; also known as Robber Barons
What is Captains of Industry
Period from the 1870s-1890s that describes how many aspects of life appeared beautiful but were flawed after closer inspection. It was characterized by rapid economic growth, political corruption, and unequal distribution of wealth.
What is the Gilded Age
These were tight and small buildings given to factory workers to live close to their job site.
What are tenements
A government policy where markets were given freedom to be led by the natural laws of supply and demand, without taxes, regulations, or tariffs.
What is Laissez-Faire
individuals that favor the interests of native-born Americans over immigrants.
What are Nativists
the act where business purchase every step of of production from the animals to the factories
What is Verticle Integration
The idea that wealth was a reward for hard work and talent, while poverty was punishment for laziness and bad judgment. Justified how business leaders accumulated great wealth.
What is Social Dwarnism
insisted “separate but equal “ as the State of Louisiana permitted that segregation of railroads was constitutional as long as they provided equal commendations
Plessy vs Ferguson
These grew exponentially in the late 1800s stimulating industrial growth, speeding up commerce and travel and opening up faster communication
What are Railroads
This act prohibited all immigration of Chinese background.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act
Where business purchases every competitor or factory
What is Horizontal Integration
The harsh lifestyle of cowboys, where they had 1 cowboy for 300-500 cattle each and they would work from sunrise to sunset and having a poor diet eventually led to a short life
What is the Long Drives
these were a set of laws that applied segregation to almost all public facilities such as transportation, and schools. These laws were in place until the Civil Rights Movement.
What are Jim Crow Law
well known inventor capturing the public's imagination with 1,093 patents for new inventions, the most popular being the phonograph and incandescent light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison
In this speech by William Jennings Bryan he insisted that silver should be added to the circulation of currency as it would help the economy and the government.
What is the Cross of Gold
Collective bargaining unit that gave factory workers a way to advocate for improvement of their working conditions, pay and retirement.
What are Uniouns
Jacob Rii’s published this book exposing the poverty and despair NYC’s lower east side faced, hoping it would shock the public to call for reforms of the wretched conditions of tenements. Led to improvements in sewers, garbage collection and plumbing.
What was How the Other Half Lives
Many African Americans migrated to urban areas to escape discrimination and also fro better living conditions
What is The Great Migration
American industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry, using vertical integration to control the entire process of gaining and selling steel.
Who was Andrew Carnegie
Policy where all nations had equal opportunity to trade in China
What is the Open Door policy
The bloodiest war between the Indian Americans and the US. While the US emerged victorious, Gerenimo surrendered and ended the Indian War.
What was the Red River War
Jane Adams led the creation of settlement houses, like Hull House, that provided day nurseries and adult education classes for immigrants and working mothers. It gave a new generation of women organizational and leadership skills to use in their daily lives.
What was the Settlement House Movement:
This was a time in American History when people sought to end any type of racial discrimination against African Americans. Key events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and March on Washington
What is the Civil Rights Movement
Created the Standard Oil company, using horizontal integration to control the oil industry.
Who was John D. Rockefeller
an agreement allowing the US to intervene in Cuba, forbidding Cuba from making treaties with other territories. Also gave US control of naval bases at Guantanamo Bay.
What was the Platt Amendment