Inventions
GILDED AGE
VILLAINS
VILLAINS
Gilded Age Misc. 1
Progressive Era (Random) x2
Gilded Age Misc. 2
x2 Points
100
Created the lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
The ruthless tactics they used to destroy their competition and methods used to keep workers' wages low.
Captains of Industry OR robber barons
100
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists who were seen as the greedy rich people.
Robber Barrons
100
Investigative reporters, writers, and social scientists exposed the industrial and governmental corruption
Muckrakers
100
What is this political cartoon expressing? Teacher judges the student answer.
Did you get it?
100
This Gilded Age industrial owners encouraged labor unions. (True or False)
What is False?
200
This allowed for long-distance communication to happen rapidly (used morse code).
What is the telegraph?
200
This person controlled the Railroad Industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
200
This was the term applied to wealthy industry owners who were seen as doing good for society.
What are Captains of Industry?
200
___________ agreed with W.E.B. that African Americans should seek their civil rights, but he disagreed on how they should achieve those rights.
Booker T. Washington
200
This Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson legalized discrimination--- stating, separate but ____.
What is Equal?
200
Who is responsible for this...
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
What is the telephone
300
This person controlled the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
This Gilded Age law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost (160 acres)
What is the Homestead Act?
300
“Pure Food & Drug Act”
law that required foods and drugs to be pure and accurately labeled
300
Many of these circulated in newspapers during the Gilded Age: Drawings depicting messages about businesses/government/etc.
What are political cartoons?
300
This process created steel cheaper and quicker (brought over from England).
What is the Bessemer Process?
400
Name an immigrant group that worked on the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are the Irish or the Chinese?
400
Person controlled the Oil Industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
a big business owned by many shareholders
what is a corporation?
400
1896 Election – Populists supported_____________________ for President due to his “Cross of Gold” speech in which he supported the unlimited coinage of silver, instead of gold
William Jennings Bryan
400
________ was America's first big business aiding in transportation.
What are railroads?
400
Term used to describe buying similar companies to reduce competition (______ Integration)
What is Horizontal Integration?
500
This type of engine powered trains and ships.
What is the steam engine?
500
This person controlled the banking/finance industry.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
500
Corporations were led by a group called a Board of ______.
what are Trustees?
500
Prohibited railroads from charging more for short hauls than long hauls over the same route
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
500
Federal law aimed at stopping monopolies and trustsfrom engaging in unfair practices.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
500
Term used to describe buying companies in order to gain materials or transportation for products.
What is Vertical Integration?
600
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?
600
This Gilded Age industry owner is known as the father of philanthropy as well as a successful steel businessman.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
600
Belief that natural competition weeds out the weak and allows the strong to survive.
What is Social Darwinism?
600
Identify these Progressive Presidents in order. Left to right.
Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft
600
Term for a person who gives money to charities. Think of Carnegie.
What is a Philanthropist?
600
acronym R.O.S.E.
What are Railroads, Oil, Steel, and Electricity?