General Industrialization
Gilded Age
Populism
People & Events
Presidents
100
These are three major Industrialization terms - one deals with expanding "Big Business", one deals with people moving into a country, and one deals with expanding cities.
What are industrialization, immigration, and urbanization?
100
"Survival of the fittest" in the business world.
What is social Darwinism?
100
This was the first political organization of farmers.
What is the Grange?
100
This riot broke out in Chicago on May 5, 1886, and caused the downfall of the Knights of Labor.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
100
Which president is the only one in America's history to serve two nonconsecutive terms?
Who is Grover Cleveland?
200
These were active labor unions during this period. One accepted all workers, one only accepted skilled, and one only accepted railroad workers.
What are the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and the American Railway Union (ARU)?
200
This writer came up with the term "Gilded Age".
Who is Mark Twain?
200
This was the term for printed money during Populism, and it was also the name of a movement for silver.
What is "greenback"?
200
This lady was in charge of the Women's Rights movement.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
200
This man was James A. Garfield's Vice-President, and took over as President after the shooting of Garfield.
Who is Chester A. Arthur?
300
These were the three "Captains of Industry" and their fields of business, and this was the term that people opposing them used.
Who are Andrew Carnegie (steel), John D. Rockefeller (oil), and Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads), and what is a "robber baron"?
300
This man was a corrupt party boss who ran Tammany Hall in New York City.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
300
These groups were the two sides of the silver issue - one wanted to use silver, one didn't.
What are gold bugs and silverites?
300
This strike happened in 1894 and was supported by the ARU. (Hint - railway cars)
What is the Pullman Strike?
300
These two presidents were two of four to be assassinated in America's history. (You can get 100 bonus points each for naming the other two.)
Who are James A. Garfield and William McKinley? (For bonus, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.)
400
This is a method that the "Captains of Industry" used to gain control of their industries - it means to combine all the businesses used for one step of making a product (horizontal) or combine businesses for every step of making a product (vertical).
What is integration (or consolidation)?
400
This "ism" of the Gilded Age was against all immigration and called for stricter immigration laws.
What is nativism?
400
This type of tax led to the 16th Amendment. Under this tax, the more you make, the more you pay.
What is a graduated income tax?
400
This man assassinated James Garfield (full name, please).
Who is Charles Guiteau?
400
He was actually nominated by the Democrats, but was supported by the Populists in the 1896 election. (Hint - he made fiery speeches on silver)
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
This was a theory of socialism mentioned in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward - it was a forerunner of communism. (Hint - Karl Marx)
What is Marxism?
500
They were five famous authors of this period. (Name their books for 500 bonus points)
Who are Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives), Horatio Alger (Rags to Riches), Henry George (Progress and Poverty), Lester Frank Ward ( Dynamic Sociology), and Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward)?
500
This act regulated interstate commerce, but ultimately failed - the courts usually sided with the big businesses and railroads.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
500
This man criticized party bosses through his political cartoons, especially Boss Tweed.
Who is Thomas Nast?
500
He was the only Populist-nominated candidate for President, and lost to Grover Cleveland in 1892.
Who is James Weaver?
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