Gilded Age 1
Gilded Age 2
Gilded Age 3
Gilded Age 4
Gilded Age 5 + Review
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Define urbanization
People moving from small villages to the towns and cities; growing of cities
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What was the industrial revolution?
Transition of making goods by hand to using machines ; economy goes from farming to industry; lots of factories and big cities, etc
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Define nativism
Not liking people who aren't from your country; Favoring people from your country
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If a government is "hands off" you would say they are...
LAISSEZ-FAIRE
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What group of people moved west, from the south, in the late 1800s?
Exodusters (African Americans)
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What is this image describing?
Vertical Integration
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What does "Social Darwinism" mean? How does this picture symbolize social dariwnism?
"Survival of the fittest"; rich vs poor; explains why rich were rich and poor were poor; lion symbolizes rich, rat symbolizes poor
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This style of living would describe the life of...
Upper Class, Titans of Industry, Rich, etc...
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What group of immigrants helped build the transcontinental railroad from the west?
Chinese
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Why did the exodusters move west to Kansas? What pushed them out of the south?
Racism, segregation, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, sharecropping, discrimination, prejudice, etc.
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What process is this describing?
Horizontal Integration
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Describe the difference between the rich and poor lifestyle and living conditions from the Gilded Age (housing, work conditions, etc)
Mansions vs Tenements, Good hours/good pay / good conditions vs low pay long hours bad conditions
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What is this kind of housing called? (T...) Also, what class/group of people would live in this housing?
Tenement Housing; Lower class, factory workers, immigrants
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Describe some struggles the workers of the transcontinental railroad faced...
Weather/mountains/blizzards, Native American attacks, hunger, dangerous conditions (nitroglycerin explosives)
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What did Jim Crow Laws set up in the South that made exodusters want to leave?
Jim Crow Laws
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Give an example on how a government could practice being "Laissez-Faire" ...
Not enforcing/regulating workers pay, workers hours, eco friendly products, etc.
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What 3 things allowed the Industrial Revolution to happen?
Natural Resources, Growing workforce, Science and Technology
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Describe the changing of social roles in the Gilded Age...
Women worked and still cared for family; children worked and didn't go to school
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Describe the impact of the transcontinental railroad...
Allowed goods and people to move significantly faster across the United States
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Explain what the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments did
13th: Abolished Slavery 14th: Citizenship 15th: Voting Rights
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What business vocab term is this cartoon referencing?
Monopolies
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Describe the class structure of the Gilded Age by naming the class and a job associated with each
Upper Class: Business Families
Upper Middle Class: Lawyers, Doctors, etc.
Lower Middle Class: Office workers, shop owners, teachers, farmers
Bottom Class: Factory Workers
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Describe the working conditions for the lower class (factory workers)... be specific...
Long Hours (12-16), Low Pay (Less than 50 cents per week on abg), Dangerous working conditions (Mary story)
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Describe what this political cartoon is saying. Also, based on this cartoon, what do you think the popular opinion on the rich was at the time of the Gilded Age...
Working class does all of the work, rich gets all the benefits; overall negative viewpoint
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Name the 4 Titans of Industry and what industry they had a monopoly in...
Rockefeller, Oil; Carnegie, Steel; JP Morgan, Banking; Cornelius Vanderbilt, Railroads