The Gilded Age in the South
This system replaced slavery after the Civil War.
What is Sharecropping?
The number of hours that factory workers worked during this time.
What is between 12 to 16 hours?
A successful industrialist who is believed to have gained his success through unethical means.
What is a Robber Baron?
The native population in California went from 14,000 to 223,000 during this event.
What is the California Gold Rush?
The number of hours in a workday that labor organizations fought for.
What is an 8-hour work day?
What African Americans had to do to be able to vote.
What are reading and writing tests and own land?
These are some of the conditions that factory workers faced during this time.
What are unsanitary conditions, poor ventilation, and low wages?
This man was known for expanding the railroad industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Reasons why Chinese immigrants migrated to the West.
What is because of the Gold Rush, work opportunities, and economic freedom?
These are two types of industries that were on the rise in the West.
What are mining industries and cattle ranches?
This man believed in self-reliance and a gradual process for Civil Rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This strike was one of the more famous and turned extremely violent.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This man controlled 90% of American Oil refineries.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This Act banned Chinese laborers for ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This is a method monopolies use to buy up the competition.
What is horizontal integration?
This type of education was focused on during the Gilded Age in the South.
What is industrial education?
Mass immigration during this time had these impacts on society.
What is cultural tension and massive competition for jobs?
This act was created to stop monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The name of towns that were created from the Gold Rush.
What are boomtowns?
Cornelius Vanderbilt got his start in this transportation system.
What is steamboats?
This type of industry was on the rise in the South and was what the town of Randleman was built on.
What are textile mills?
This man led the labor organization movement.
Who is Terence Powderly?
This man advocated Gospel Wealth.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Act allowed settlers to get western land for free.
What is the Homestead Act?
The term refers to Southerners changing their stance on why they fought in the war.
What is the Lost Cause?