Monopolies
Owners of the big monopolies (ex. steel, oil, etc).
Who are Robber Barons?
The form of economic policy that was used in the Gilded Age.
What is laissez-faire?
The regulations put in place to limit immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusionary Act?
Farmers called the coinage act this because they primarily used silver as their money due to it's easier acquisition.
What is the Crime of 1873?
Steel robber baron AND Oil robber baron.
Who are Carnegie and Rockefeller?
This event started September 1873, lasting four years where one main company in the stock market crashed and then New York stock market fell.
What is the Panic of 1873?
This law removed the usage of silver as a form of currency.
What is the Coinage Act [of 1873]?
Farmers formed this political party to help support their rights in government. They then melded into the Democratic Party.
What is the Populist Party?
This false company-- because of railroads in checkerboard fashion-- scammed people and stole money in 1872.
What is the Credit Mobilier [Scandal]?
The Panic of 1893 was one of the worst depressions in history where the federal government almost went bankrupt.
This person gave this loan of a metal. (name all three parts of the answer: name, money, and metal for DOUBLE or TRIPLE JEOPARDY)
Who is JP Morgan?
How much is $60million?
What is gold?
The largest labor union in mid 1800s who's purpose was to improve wages and lower working hours (among other things).
Who are the Knights of Labour?
The Supreme Court case that occurred in 1877 that supported Granger laws (especially with their fight against the railroads' lack of regulations. It was later overturned by another Supreme Court case nearly a decade later.
What is Munn v. Illinois?
Buying companies of each part of the industry to have the whole progress be controlled by a company. Carnegie did this.
What is vertical integration?
Innovations in this metal helped towards the building of skyscrapers, expansion bridges, and cable cars.
What is Steel?
Congress created this agency in 1887 to regulate businesses. It was scarcely used. (DOUBLE OR NOTHING IF GIVE THE FULL CORRECT NAME)
What is the ICC-- Interstate Commerce Commission?
Jane Addams built this to help lower class families/workers who had been stuck in bad living conditions in tenement homes.
What is the Hull House?
Buying out the competition to be the only person in charge of that industry. Rockefeller did this.
What is horizontal integration?
Thomas Edison helped pioneer the usage of this. Name this and 2 ways how it helped the economy in the Gilded age.
What is electricity?
(Answers accepted will be 1-3 decent answers, up to discretion of game show host)
Political bosses controlled political power in the big urban cities. They provided housing to immigrants who worked in their factories/industries. Name an effect of these political bosses.
Make access to utilities and infrastructure easier
Notorious in corruption
Abuse of immigrants- bad/full housing
Abuse of immigrants- voting source
(AOE that applies)
The populist party-- who had melded into the democratic party by this point-- helped nominate this presidential candidate because of this reason. (name both for the points)
Who is Willian Jennings Bryan with the Bi-metal policy? (reinstate silver and continue to use gold on a 16:1 ratio respectively)