Vocabulary
A group of people who have the same profession. They join together to have a stronger voice to get higher wages, better working conditions, etc.
What is a Union?
This Robber Baron/Captain of Industry made most of his money from the railroad, selling his shipping investments to go all in.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Author of the Gospel of Wealth
Who is Andrew Carnegie
Name of the sweatshop where 146 people died in a fire in 1911
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
The inventor of the modern day lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison
Made of cheap material and then decorated or painted to make it look fancy. They named this time period after it because it looked rich on the outside, but in reality was not what it seemed.
What is Gilded Age?
This Robber Baron/Captain of Industry made most of his money from banking, he assisted market stabilization during hard economic times.
Who is John Pierpont Morgan?
A group in which an authoritative boss or small team commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses who receive rewards for their efforts. (and particularly immigrants during this era)
What is a Political Machine?
A violent affair when striking steel workers clashed with thugs hired by Andrew Carnegie & Henry Frick?
What is Homestead Strike
The inventor of the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
The two classifications we have for the major entrepreneurs of the era
Who are Robber Barons and Captains of Industry?
This Robber Baron/Captain of Industry made most of his money from Vertical Integration in the oil market
John D Rockefeller
An American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States, as well as organizing efforts to boycott trains during the Pullman Strike
Eugene Victor Debs
Strike that involved workers for a railroad company due to their rent being raised, and not their wages. US military breaks up the strike due to this company's responsibility to the US postal service.
What is the Pullman Strike
First inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel
What is the Bessemer Process
Protecting and advocating for the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
What is Nativism? Or Nativist
This Robber Baron/Captain of Industry made most of his money from steel, through his use of the Bessemer Process
Who is Andrew Carnegie
The powerful political machine that ran New York City through a system of political patronage (favors for votes), and it was the epitome of corrupt politics in the era. This was the palace of William "Boss" Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall
Riot that begun after a bomb went off in a crowd of protesters, causing police to kill multiple people.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
A corporation or trust that controls all of one industry.
What is a Monopoly?
The application of the evolutionary concept of natural selection to human society.
What is Social Darwinism?
Form of business organization in which all stages of production of a good, from the acquisition of raw materials to the retailing of the final product, are controlled by one company.
What is Vertical Integration
The two major trade unions of the era. The only two we identified so far.
Who is the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor
The two Anti Trust acts enacted into law during the Gilded Age
What is the Sherman and Clayton Anti Trust Acts
State the differences between the "Old" immigrants and the "New" immigrants
Old = North, West
New = East, South