Urbanization
What is urbanization?
This is what people who supported patronage were called.
What is a stalwart?
Unlike the other robber barons mentioned, this man was born into a wealthy family. He bailed out the US government twice, saving the country from economic panic.
Who is JP Morgan?
Directly after the Civil War (1865), America was predominantly still this kind of country.
What is agricultural?
The political bias that favors native born citizens over immigrated citizens.
What is nativism?
This where the wealthy who worked in the city lived
This president was assassinated for trying to institute reform
Who is President Garfield?
This was a strategy Carnegie used, where he bought out several components of the supply chain.
What is vertical integration?
Laborers formed participated in these events to ensure their demands would be met
What are strikes?
What is a mixed salad?
These are the names of the apartments that people who lived in the urban centers lived in
what are tenements?
Patronage dates back as early as this man's presidency, who instituted a spoils system with his cabinet.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Using a strategy called horizontal integration, Vanderbilt bought out several railroad companies. After the Panic of 1893, all railroad companies were consolidated in 7 companies. This is the name for a limited state of competition.
What is an oligopoly?
Refines iron into steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Nativism found a foothold among this group of people, who belonged to the Democratic party.
Who are the members of the labor movement?
This invention allowed people to live outside of the cities while still working in the cities.
What is the automobile?
The use of political power for personal gain.
What is graft?
This was a metaphor we looked at in class, which argued that robber barons and other wealthy individuals benefitted the lower classes overall.
What is a hive and its honey bees?
This event turned violent when seven police officers were killed. This event turned many people against the labor movement.
What was the Haymarket Affair? (1886)
This Act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country from 1882 through 1943.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This man would be distressed to hear that America was becoming an urban nation. He once said "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What is Spain?
This man was America's first billionaire.
Who was John D Rockefeller?
This man was the leader of the Socialist Party in the United States during the Gilded Age, as a way to protect laborers and lower classes from the power of the wealthy.
Who is Eugene Debs?
The Gentlemen's Agreement (1907) was a compromise negotiated between the Japanese government and this US president to desegregate the schools in San Francisco. This is the name of the US President.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?