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100
Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison.
Who are the Presidents of the Gilded Age?
100
This social reformer worked to improve the lives of the working class. In 1889 she founded Hull House in Chicago, the first private social welfare agency inthe U.S., to assist the poor, combat juvenile delinquency and help immigrants learn to speak English
Who is Jane Addams?
100
This term was coined by Mark Twain to describe the time period between Reconstruction and 1900. The term means that something has a shiny, appealing outward appearance but is cheap beneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
100
These organizations sought to achieve goals through political actions. Their goals included reduction in the length of the workday, universal education, free land for settlers, and abolition of monopolies. These were partly the result of the growth of factories.
What are Labor Unions?
100
This person built a massive fortune in the oil industry using practices including swallowing up competitors and negotiating exclusive deals with railroad companies. In 1911, his company's monopoly was dissolved in a Supreme Court decision based on the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act. By the time of his death, he had given away over $500 million in philanthropic pursuits.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
This man organized the Pullman strike. A federal court found him guilty of restraint of trade, stopping US mail, and disobeying a government injunction to stop the strike. He later ran for president as a candidate of the Social Democratic Party.
Who is Eugene Debs?
200
This system of farming provided the necessities for Black farmers. However the system was abused and uneducated blacks were taken advantage of. The results, for Blacks, was not unlike slavery.
What is sharecropping?
200
This movement focused on cooperation between farmers. They agreed to sell crops at the same high prices to eliminate competition. This widespread movement was highly unsuccessful.
What is the Farmers' Alliance?
200
Women and children were hired to work here because manufacturers wanted to reduce labor costs. These were mostly located in cities; they hired immigrants looking for work. Starting at around 1880, the majority came from southern and eastern Europe.
What are Factories?
200
The term used to describe the production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines, such as the ones used by Ford Motor Co. in the early 1900s.
What is Mass Production?
300
This act set up the Interstate Commerce Commission which was intended to supervise railroad activities and regulate unethical practices. However, this act was ineffective.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
300
A black orator and eassayist. Helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP). He disagreed with Booker T. Washington's theories, and took a militant position on race relations.
Who is W. E. B. DuBois
300
Term used to describe the sensationalist newspaper writings of the time. They were written on cheap yellow paper. The most famous of these was William Randolf Hearst. It was considered tainted reporting - full of omissions and half-truths.
What is Yellow Journalism?
300
This Labor Union was created to try to stop the poor treatment of workers. It one of the first labor unions, founded in 1869. Goals included: and 8 hour work day, equal pay for men and women, child labor laws, safety and sanitary codes, a federal income tax, and government ownership of railroads and telegraph lines.
What is The Knights of Labor?
300
One of the most prolific inventors in U.S. history. He invented the phonograph, light bulb, electric battery, mimeograph and moving picture. He also designed the first power plant, making possible the widespread distribution of electricity.
Who is Thomas Edison?
400
These organizations helped poor find jobs and houses and apply for citizenship and voting rights. They also built parks, funded Police and Fire departments, roads and sewage lines. In return, people were expected to vote as instructed by the organization.
What are Political Machines?
400
This became an important political issue at this time, led by Susan B. Anthony. She wanted an amendment to the Constitution for this. The American Suffrage Association fought for this, yet they did not succeed until 1920.
What is Women' Suffrage?
400
Commonly known as the Populist Party, it was founded in 1891 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It wrote a platform for the 1892 election in which they called for free coinage of silver and paper money, national income tax, direct election of senators, regulation of railroads, and other government reforms to help farmers.
What is the Peoples' Party?
400
This organization was led by Samuel Gompers, concentrated on “bread and butter” issues such as higher wages and shorter workdays. It was formed as a confederation of trade unions (unions made up exclusively of workers from a single trade).
What is the American Federation of Labor?
400
This man was an inventor, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He was an important contributor to the use of commercial electricity, and is best known for developing the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. His many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were based on the theories of electromagnetic technology discovered by Michael Faraday. His patents and theoretical work also formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
500
This term is used to describe the original official position of the United States on WWI. Upon the outbreak of war, all American exports would be embargoed for 6 months. This also gave the president the authority to determine when a state of war existed and prohibited loans to belligerents.
What is Neutrality?
500
A landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
This movement came to dominate the first two decades of the 20th century. They were urban, middle class reformers who wanted to increase the role of government while maintaining a capitalist economy. This rooted from associations and organizations. They achieved great success on local and national level, changed public attitude towards education and government regulation.
What is the Progressive Movement?
500
Industrial leaders used the doctrines associated with the this to justify unequal distribution of national wealth. It was the notion that God had granted wealth the same as he had given grace for material and spiritual salvation to only a select few. Relied on survival of the fittest philosophy - Social Darwinism.
What is The Gospel of Wealth?
500
This form of transportation was incredibly important to people of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It allowed them to spread out and live away from cities. With the rise of this technology, many new oppurtunities for occupations associated with it, arose as well.
What are railroads?
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