Inventions
Created the lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
What was the French Word called that said the government would be hands off in the economy?
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
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists who were seen as the greedy rich people.
Robber Barrons
The workforce of the Industrial Revolution was largely made up of this group of people.
What are immigrants?
This Gilded Age industrial owners encouraged labor unions. (True or False)
What is False?
This allowed for long-distance communication to happen rapidly (used morse code).
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?
This person controlled the Railroad Industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This was the term applied to wealthy industry owners who were seen as doing good for society.
What are Captains of Industry?
This Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson legalized discrimination--- stating, separate but ____.
What is Equal?
This guy was known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park"
Who is Thomas Edison?
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 person controlled the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Gilded Age law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost (160 acres)
What is the Homestead Act?
Many of these circulated in newspapers during the Gilded Age: Drawings depicting messages about businesses/government/etc.
What are political cartoons?
This process created steel cheaper and quicker (brought over from England).
Who are the Irish or the Chinese?
the growth of businesses that manufacture products through the use of machinery/industry
What is industrialization?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
a big business owned by many shareholders
what is a corporation?
________ was America's first big business aiding in transportation.
What are railroads?
This type of engine powered trains and ships.
What is the steam engine?
This innovation in factories created a more efficient production of goods, making goods cheaper and more widely available to Americans (______ line)
What is the assembly line?
Who is J.P. Morgan?
what are Trustees?
Book written by Andrew Carnegie arguing that it is God's will for some to be rich so they can serve the public.
What is the "Gospel of Wealth"?
Term used to describe buying companies in order to gain materials or transportation for products.
What is Vertical Integration?
Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States by connecting it to the east?
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
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?
This Gilded Age industry owner is known as the father of philanthropy as well as a successful steel businessman.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Belief that natural competition weeds out the weak and allows the strong to survive.
What is Social Darwinism?
Term for a person who gives money to charities. Think of Carnegie.
What is a Philanthropist?