Gilded Age Starter Pack
A surge in inventions from a new production method, where each worker is assigned a repeatable task.
What is the assembly line?
The backbone of the booming economy, they worked long hours in dangerous conditions for low wages in factories, mines, and railroads.
Who are the Industrial Workers?
Established a federal income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Wrote the famous essay, The Gospel of Wealth.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
First Major nationwide labor strike, involved tens of thousands of workers.
What is the Great Railroad Strike?
Completed in 1869, it connected America's East & West Coasts and triggered the Gilded Age by creating wealth and corporate power.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Exposed corruption, corporate monopolies, and severe social injustices within the United States. Forced the government to pass landmark legislation to protect workers/consumers.
Who are the Muckrakers?
Originally a weak Gilded Age policy, used by Theodore Roosevelt to break up industrial monopolies.
What is The Sherman Antitrust Act?
Co-founded the Hull House in Chicago, a pioneer settlement house.
Who is Jane Addams?
A bitter and violent strike at Carnegie Steel Company, which broke union's power in the steel industry.
What is the Homestead Strike?
An economic philosophy stating that governments should not interfere in the economy.
What is Laissez-Faire?
Powerful 19th century American industrialists and financiers who gained fortunes during the Gilded Age through ruthless and often seen as unethical business practices.
Who are the Robber Barons?
Public outcry for safety, following the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire tragedy.
What are factory safety laws?
Sociologist and civil rights leader who co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
What is the Panic of 1893?
The massive influx of foreign workers
What is mass immigration?
They fought for women's voting rights, eventually achieving the 19th amendment.
Who are the Suffragettes?
Took the power of electing U.S. Senators away from corrupt state legislatures and gave it to the people.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Famous "muckraker" whose novel, The Jungle, exposed harsh conditions and unsanitary practices.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Signed by President Woodrow Wilson, this law created the central banking system to stabilize the economy.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
The first inexpensive industrial method for the mass production of steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Government Officials who used federal power to break up monopolies, regulate food and drug safety, and implement conservation efforts.
Who are the Trust-Busters?
Provided financial compensation and medical benefits to federal civil service employees injured on the job.
What is the Federal Employees' Compensation Act?
American Industrialist who built a global shipping and railroad empire.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
A violent labor protest in Chicago that resulted in causalities and severely damaged the reputation of the Knights of Labor.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?