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This President's administration was famous for corruption and scandals
Who is Grant
100
The first major industry in America. It was often abused and controlled by corruption of businessmen and politicians, but it carried America forward through the industrial Revolution.
What are the Railroads
100
This is why this time period is called the "Gilded Age"
Growing economy and super rich Americans made everything seem "golden" on the outside, but the reality was that many working class Americans were dirt poor and treated like industrial slaves
100
An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests
What is a Union
100
This enormous construction project connected America unlike ever before and spurred Westward movement and settlement.
Transcontinental Railroad
200
The most famous corrupt party boss of the famous "Tammany Hall" political machine
Who is "Boss" Tweed
200
If you thought the major Industrialists of the time were great entrepreneurs who made America and economic powerhouse you would view them as _____________. If you thought these men where no goods who treated their workers terribly and stole from the government and everyone else you would call them _______________.
What is Captains of Industry and Robber Barrons
200
Refers to the political movement of mostly farmers (and eventually factory workers) who demanded government reforms in the late 19th century.
Populist Party
200
Act that allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years and improving it.
Homestead Act
300
This man attempted to expose corruption by drawing some of the first "political cartoons"
What is Thomas Nast
300
She was one of the first self made women of extreme wealth in America, which was even more exceptional considering she was also black in a time where black women had little opportunity.
Madam CJ Walker
300
The system in place during the Gilded Age, where many government jobs were handed out to supporters of political campaigns or through nepotism.
Spoils System
300
Samuel Gompers was the leader of this famous Union for skilled laborers that became the largest Union in America by 1900
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
300
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What is being shown here and why did they do this?
400
This act created the civil service in America as we know it. This act stated that those in power could not simply appoint their "buddies" to government jobs. These people now had to be qualified for those positions.
What is the Pendleton Act
400
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This law passed by Congress in 1890 was designed to combat the monopolies that were running rampant in American business.
This act was used to breakup Standard Oil.
400
This man became famous for his "Cross of Gold" speech which brought the Populists over to the Democratic Party.
William Jennings Bryan
400
Factory owner George Pullman created these in which everything his employees needed was owned and controlled by the company itself. It eventually blew up in his face when he raised the prices of everything.
What is a 'Company Town"
400
What was the end result of the Dawes Act.
(2 things)
Take Native's land and Assimilate them
500
The informal political groups who controlled elections in the growing cities of the time by controlling the poor and immigrant population through bribery and threats.
What is a Political Machine
500
Rail= Steel= Oil= Finance & modern banking= Tobacco= making steel faster & cheaper =
What is Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Bessemer
500
Applied the theory of evolution and natural selection to human society. Argued that society progressed and became better because only the “fittest” were successful.
Social Darwinism
500
This man was considered the first leader of the Socialist Party of America, and he created the American Railway Union
Eugene Debbs
500
In response to Jim Crow Laws he led southern African Americans "Exodusters" to the west, settling in Kansas in the 1880's
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
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