gilded age
Period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption
what is the gilded age?
Technological advances, large scale production methods, and the opening of new markets, encouraged the rise of industrial _______.
what is capitalism?
Inventer of the lightbulb
who was Thomas Edision
Hayes could become President, and all federal troops had to leave the South. It ended reconstruction and began democratic "redemption"
what is the comprimise of 1877?
Many people migrated from rural areas to these areas.
what are urban areas?
Green backs
The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade.
What is a monopoly
Technology that best helped people migrate.
What are steamships and railroads?
prevents businesses from performing big consolidations.
What is sherman antitrust act?
Conditions that drive people away from their homes like poverty, political instability, or religious persecution.
What are push factors?
Inflating the prices of stocks to make profit.
what is stock watering?
Standard Oil owner, master of horizontal integration; he got rich by selling oil below the price it took to make it, then jacking the prices up once every other oil refinery went out of business.
who was John D. Rockefeller
Inventor of the telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
reviving gory memories of the Civil War helped elect Grant.
what is waving the bloody shirt?
Act that encouraged people to move to rural areas.
what is the homestead act?
Controlling everything needed to control your product's price, eg. mines, railroads, stores, factories, etc.
what is vertical integration?
Started in 1862, finished in 1869, the Union Pacific RR built west from Omaha and Central Pacific RR built east from Sacramento; they raced against and with each other to finally unite in Promontory, Utah, where they placed the Golden Spike.
What is transcontinental railroad?
Type of engine made in 1876.
what is an internal combustion engine?
A political machine in New york that helped immigrants get jobs and houses if they vote for whomever they were told to.
What is tammany hall?
Term for immigrants from southern and eastern europe.
what is "new immigrants"?
The Union Pacific Railroad Company formed a construction company where they hired themselves for high rates, making way more money than they should've been as Congressmen got kickbacks.
What is Credit Mobilier Scandal ?
Hayes called in federal troops to stop it; made people feel sympathetic for laborers and opened the doors for future strikes.
What is the railroad strike of 1877? (great strike)
Inventors of the Mechanical Combine Harvester
Who was Hiram Moore and John Hascal?
1882- Said the 14th Amendment (citizenship and civil rights) didn't apply to immigrants.
What is US v Wong Kim Ark?
Community centers that provided services like education and job training to immigrants in urban areas.
What are Settlement houses?