Inventions
Created a way to get electricity into homes and businesses
What is the Lightbulb?
An economic doctrine that opposes government regulation of business, finance, and/or the conditions of people’s working lives.
Laissez-Faire
Name one president that allowed scandal and corruption in the government, such as the Credit Mobilier Scandal (railroad company corruption) OR allowing Reconstruction to end?
Ulysses S. Grant or Rutherford B. Hayes
Time of transition to new manufacturing processes. Great growth in technology/new inventions. Many new factories were built.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
This former teacher shared photographs with the nation showing the horrors of child labor.
Who is Lewis Hine?
This allowed for long distance communication to happen rapidly.
What is the telegraph?
Business owners tried to get rid of competition by owning entire/product or service in an industry. This is called a________ (Hint: Like the board game)
What is a Monopoly/Trusts?
Bribing of elected officials would be known as
What is corruption?
This Gilded Age law prevented the immigration of a group of people into the United States.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act 1882?
This process allowed for the mass production of steel.
What is the Bessemer Steel Process?
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
What is the Telephone?
Mark Twain coined the term_________, a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath. (hint: its what period/era we are studying)
What is the Gilded Age?
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists and captains of industry
Bonus: What are two positive things they arguably did?
Robber Barrons
The negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
What is collective bargaining?
The rapid growth of cities due to the influx of people
What is Urbanization?
Which invention changed transportation and life in America during the early 1900's?
What is the Automobile?
A shop of factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions.
What is a sweatshop?
This Gilded Age reformer attacked political corruption through his famous cartoons.
Who is Thomas Nast?
This invention launched the Industrial Revolution. It fueled the growth of slavery in the United States.
What is the cotton gin?
These newspaper drawings helped bring down the infamous political machine known as Tammany Hall, as well as shed light on issues within our country/government.
What are political cartoons?
This invention allowed for better transportation and storage of food.
What is the refrigerator?
This innovation in factories created a more efficient production of goods, making goods (such as automobiles) cheaper and more widely available to Americans
What is the assembly line?
JP Morgan controlled the_________ industry; Rockfeller controlled the___________ industry; and Carnegie controlled the_________ industry.
What is Banking (Morgan); Oil (Rockefeller), Steel (Carnegie)?
An economy where businesses make the decisions about how much to produce and at what price
What is a capitalist economy?
A common technique used by labor unions, where groups of employees refuse to work until their demands are met, is called ___________.
What is a strike?
Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States?
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
Organizations formed by workers to advocate/negotiate/fight for improved working conditions.
What are labor unions?
These "Captains of Industry" bitterly opposed their workers unionizing
Who was John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie?
A belief that native- born white Americans were superior to newcomers/immigrants?
What is nativism?
This was one of the most violent worker conflicts in United States history between Carnegie steel workers and Pinkertons (private military hired by Frick/Carnegie)
What is the Homestead Strike?