Technological Advancements/Inventions
What was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 that allowed people to talk to each other over long distances.
Telephone
This trend applied Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to the business world and was used by industrialists and social conservatives to discourage government regulation in society. In an attempt, to justify a wealthy elite class as natural and inevitable.
Social Darwinism
This person had a successful business using the Bessemer process for making steel and utilized the practice of vertical integration.
Andrew Carnegie
This was an act of Congress that required the U.S. Treasury to buy certain specific amounts of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars.
The Bland-Allison Act of 1878
A secret hate group in the southern U.S, active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of Black people.
Klu Klux Klan
What invention allowed farmers to more than double their crop size and spurred innovations in farm machinery?
Mechanical Reaper
What sport played its first match on November 6, 1869?
American Football (Real Football)
Was an industrialist who founded the Standard Oil Company in Ohio in 1870. He used horizontal integration to flush out his competitors.
John D. Rockefeller
This tariff was introduced to raise taxes in an effort to counteract the decrease from the Wilson-Gorman Tariff that was in 1894.
The Dingley Tariff of 1897
What was the name of the new southern state legislatures passed to control the labor and behavior of former enslaved people and other African Americans.
Black Codes
Electrical Telegraph
What popular piece of clothing was used during this time period to cover a woman's head and even part of her face, both for modesty and to protect it from the weather?
Bonnet
This person wrote the book "How the Other Half Lives" and exposed the living conditions in the New York City slums in the 1880s.
Jacob Riis
This act reduced the US tariff rates that were set by the McKinley tariff and also imposed a 2% tax rate.
Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894
A period in American history following the American Civil War and lasting until approximately the Compromise of 1877.
The Reconstruction Era
During the industrial revolution, what were two-ways people could travel long distances quickly?
Steam Powered Engines & Boats
What kinds of dresses were worn by ladies in the mid to late 1800s?
Antebellum Dresses
He was the 19th president of the U.S. known as "The Great Unknown". He took office for only one term when his party abandoned him.
Rutherford B. Hayes
A policy that means 'leave alone' and allows the government's role to protect the individual's rights other than controlling the business.
Laissez-faire policies
What freed more than 3 million enslaved people in the Confederate states?
Emancipation Proclamation
Who made a new cigarette rolling machinery to capitalize on tobacco, and founded the American Tobacco Company in North Carolina in 1890.
James Duke
A book that reveals the trends in the era of economic growth when people were able to use monopolies to get rich.
Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: The Tale of Today 1873
He is an infamous politician who was convicted for stealing millions of tax dollars from NYC.
Boss Tweed
A group that promoted better economic conditions for farmers using political advocacy and cooperatives.
National Farmers' Alliance (1875)
What became the first major bill to become law over presidential veto in 1868?
Civil Rights Act