Big Changes
GILDED AGE- TERMS
Geography
Gilded Age Miscellaneous
Big Business
100
Thomas Edison invented___________, allowing lights and power to be used across American lives and cities.
Electricity (Electric Lights)
100
the growth of businesses that manufacture products through the use of machinery
what is industrialization?
100
This is where the Klondike Gold Rush took place.
What is Alaska?
100
the economic philosophy where government staying out of economic activity
“laissez-faire”
100
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)
Monopoly/Trusts
Bonus question: What's the difference between the two?
200
A person who is prejudiced towards immigrants
What is a nativist?
200
Mark Twain coined the term_________, a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath.
Gilded Age (Gild- To cover thinly with gold)
200
This connected the East Coast of the US to the West Coast
What is the transcontinental railroad?
200
economic state where competition decreases but prices increase
What is a monopoly?
200
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?
300
This helped with the expansion of the West and allowed essential goods and services to be transported from urban to rural parts of the country.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
300
They are corrupt groups that would buy votes and offer city services like parks to immigrant neighborhoods in exchange for votes.
What are political machines?
300
This region of the US is in the middle of the country and has a lot of farm land.
What is the great plains?
300
What was the name of the man that used bribery and voter fraud to take advantage of immigrants and corrupt officials in government?
Boss Tweed
Bonus question: The group that he used to control the government was called Tammany Hall. This mafia, political like group was called_____.
300
This was an effect of Thomas Edison's invention.
What is longer hours for factory workers?
400
This act was passed and gave free federal land to US citizens to try and settle the West.
What is the Homestead Act
400
This is the term that literally means "loves humans" and is a person that gives away money to charity.
What is a Philanthropist?
400
This is the most populated part of the country and is where most of the factories were during the Gilded Age.
What is the East Coast?
400
This group of immigrants were often discriminated against because they were Catholic.
What are Irish Immigrants?
400
This philanthropist had a monopoly on the steel industry during the Gilded Age. But he gave away millions to build libraries, museums, colleges, etc.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
The Klondike Gold Rush led to increased population in these 2 regions.
What is Alaska and Canada?
500
An attempt to destroy one's culture and make everyone the same is called this.
What is ASSIMILATION?
500
What was the terrain like for prospectors going to the Klondike Gold Rush?
Mountainous, snowy and difficult.
500
This is what the Dawes act did and why.
What is take native American land and divide it up at an attempt at assimilation.
500
This is the difference between the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Anti trust act.
What is the Sherman Anti Trust act broke up monopolies and the Interstate Commerce Act regulated the railroads.