Big Business - Robber Barons vs. Captains of Industry
Mark Twain coined this term to describe how America appeared great on the outside but was corrupt underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
This is when workers refuse to work until their demands are met.
What is a strike?
The 'New Immigrants' mostly came from THESE TWO REGIONS of Europe and were Catholic, Jewish, or Eastern Orthodox.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
This political figure was the infamous boss of the Tammany Hall machine in New York City.
Who is Boss Tweed (or William Tweed)?
This major construction project completed in 1869 connected the country between east and west and spurred economic growth.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This business strategy involved owning or controlling all competitors to create a monopoly, practiced by Rockefeller.
What is horizontal integration?
These replacement workers were hired by managers to try to break strikes.
What are scabs?
These cramped and overcrowded apartments housed most immigrants and poor Americans in cities.
What are [dumbbell] tenements?
These political organizations ran city governments and exchanged 'favors' for votes.
What are political machines?
This company was founded by John D. Rockefeller in Cleveland and became one of the largest in history.
What is Standard Oil?
Andrew Carnegie used this strategy of owning everything needed to produce and sell a product, from mines to railroads to mills.
What is vertical integration?
This event in Chicago in 1886 led to the downfall of the Knights of Labor due to its affiliation with anarchists.
What is the Haymarket Riot (or Haymarket Square Riot)?
This 1882 law, which expanded in 1893 and became permanent law from 1902 until its repeal in 1943, prohibited all immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This cartoonist took down Boss Tweed because his drawings had an impact on people that the written word did not.
Who is Thomas Nast?
This famous labor organizer fought for workers' rights across the country, especially for miners.
Who is Mother Jones?
This government policy meant staying out of the economy and not regulating businesses.
Hint: French term
What is laissez-faire?
This labor union included all workers and had radical demands like ending capitalism and child labor.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Jacob Riis used this new technology to expose the harsh conditions in tenements in his book 'How the Other Half Lives.'
What is flash photography?
This practice involved rewarding political supporters with government jobs.
What is patronage?
Other acceptable answers: "Spoils system"
This scandal involved Congress working with a railroad company to defraud taxpayers.
What is the Credit Mobilier scandal?
This theory argued that the wealthy were successful because they were 'fitter' and deserved their success - 'survival of the fittest.'
What is Social Darwinism?
This union only included skilled, white, male laborers and had less radical demands - just wanting 'more' wages and benefits.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This word describes the anti-immigrant sentiment and hostility from "older" Americans towards the "New Immigrants" from Southern and Eastern Europe.
What is Nativism?
This 1883 law, also called the Civil Service Act, required workers to show merit for certain government positions.
What is the Pendleton Act?
The act of stealing public money through illegal or dishonest transactions, such as overcharging on construction costs for the NYC courthouse.
What is graft?