Famous Folks
What is a Robber Baron
businessman who go rich from bad business practices, negative term
A Political movement that tried to help out the nation’s struggling farmers (like a farmer’s union)
The populist party
This important Native American supply and food source was almost totally wiped out by whites
Buffalo
Popular brand of a particular clothing brand made specifically for miners that are popular nowadays
levis jeans
Name an example of violence in the Gilded Age
Great Strike of 1877, Haymarket Riot, Pullman strike of 1894
Name of the Republican who defeated William Jennings Bryan for president in 1897
President William McKinley
The term that describes when one company has almost total control of an industry
Monopoly
A surprise attack on the Cheyenne Native Americans, in which 105 women and children and 28 men were killed
The Chivington Massacre
Nickname of the prospectors who came to California during the Gold Rush
49ers
Name of apartment buildings where poor immigrants lived
Tenements
The person who is credited for creating the labor union known as the AFL
Samuel Gompers
In your own words, explain "machine politics"
Corruption in politics and business causing vote manipulation and other big problems.
Explain what the goal of the Carlisle school was
To "Americanize" native americans
Name of towns in the West set up near major gold strike regions and name of them when the gold runs out.
Boomtowns/Ghostowns
The name of the man who took pictures and recorded lives of poor city dwellers
Jacob Riis
Man who was killed by Native American warriors, having his head scalped and supposedly, his heart removed.
One problem to fierce competition in business
Price wars
DAILY DOUBLE! This is the name of the geographic area in South Dakota where gold was found on sacred land
The Black hills
These are the names of the spanish cowboys that US cowboys used as influence for their "schwag"
Vaqueros
The name of the first settlement house set up by Jane Addams for poor people to go to in Chicago
Hull House
The person who was the Populist Party’s candidate for president that tried to fight for reform.
William Jennings
Bryan
Why is the Gilded Age called the Gilded Age? Who gave it this name?
Called this because things look good on the surface but if you look deeper things are not actually so good. Mark Twain
The name of one of the Indian Chiefs responsible for defeating Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn
Crazy Horse
or Sitting Bull
Reasons why farmers joined the populists
The spread of recession, debt, foreclosures, falling prices and machine politics disenfranchised them.
The name of the place where a 1911 fire consumed a sweatshop and killed over 150 female workers.
The Triangle shirtwaist Factory