Gilded Age 1
Gilded Age 2
Gilded Age 3
Gilded Age 4
Gilded Age 5
100

It meant "hands off" and that govt would stay out of businesses. 

Laissez-faire

100

Growth of cities, industries, and population.

Urbanization

100

belief that native born people should be treated better than immigrants.

Nativism

100

 a person of a small group of individuals who starts a business in hopes of making a profit.

Entrepreneurs 

100

Formed to improve working conditions of corporate employees

Labor Unions

200

Who are the 2 richest robber barons at this time and what was their industry?

Carnegie and Rockefeller

200

The Jungle...wanted to expose light on poor working conditions and instead shined light on unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry (food industry as a whole)

Upton Sinclair

200

a person who searches for and tries to expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing, especially in politics

Muckraker

200
  • exclusive control by one company over an entire industry

Monopoly

200

railroad that connected the East to the West.

Transcontinental Railroad

300

Federal law that prevented unfair practices by railroads

Interstate Commerce Act

300

a set of laws that barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.

Chinese Exclusion Act

300

federal legislation preventing monopolies from engaging in unfair business practices.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

300
  • Created the assembly line and mass produced automobiles

  • He made so many automobiles that the price came way down, making them affordable to the middle class

Henry Ford

300

 invention that allowed steel to be made more efficiently.

Bessemer Process

400

accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting families 160 acres of public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land.

Homestead Act

400

Passed by Chester Arthur that ended the spoils system and made most government jobs civil service jobs where based off qualifications

Pendelton Civil Service Act

400

Famous political boss in New York City. Was eventually arrested for his corruption 

Boss Tweed

400

Attempted to assimilate Native Americans, however it resulted in loss of Native American land.

Dawes Act

400

corrupt powerful group that supported a corrupt local political party, usually the same corrupt political party that is allowing them to be powerful.

Political Machines

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