The Gilded Age Economy
This 1862 law gave land and loans to companies to build a transcontinental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
This term describes an era that looked prosperous but was filled with corruption underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
This 1862 act gave 160 acres of free land to settlers willing to farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This company represented American business interests in Central America, often called a "banana republic."
What is the United Fruit Company?
This mail-order catalog company symbolized the rise of consumer culture.
What is Sears?
These taxes protected American industries by raising the cost of foreign goods.
What are tariffs?
The idea that the rich were more “fit” to succeed and the poor were naturally inferior.
What is Social Darwinism?
This 1887 law divided tribal land into individual plots to be bought and sold to force assimilation.
What is the Dawes Act?
This type of journalism exaggerated stories and stirred support for the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What are Jim Crow laws?
He controlled every step of steel production and promoted philanthropy in his "Gospel of Wealth."
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This political party fought against corporate corruption and advocated for poor farmers
What is the Populist Party?
This term describes a series of conflicts between the U.S. Army and Native tribes in the West.
What are the Indian Wars?
This event in Havana Harbor in 1898 helped spark the Spanish-American War.
What is the sinking of the USS Maine?
She founded Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago to help immigrants and the poor.
Who is Jane Addams?
This oil tycoon used horizontal integration to monopolize the industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This island chain was annexed in 1898 after American sugar planters overthrew its queen.
What is Hawaii?
This tragic 1890 massacre of Lakota Sioux marked the end of the Indian Wars.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
These three territories became U.S. colonies after the Spanish-American War.
What are Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam?
This labor union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on wages, hours, and working conditions for skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This hands-off economic approach let businesses grow with little government regulation.
What are laissez-faire policies?
The U.S. fought a brutal war here against rebels led by Emilio Aguinaldo after purchasing it from Spain.
What is the Philippine-American War?
These aimed to assimilate Native American children by erasing their culture.
What are Native American boarding schools (Indian Schools)?
This agreement gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuba and maintain a naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
What is the Platt Amendment?
She was a journalist who investigated lynching and helped found the NAACP
Who is Ida B. Wells?