Reforms
The name given to the alliance of farmers.
What was the Grange?
He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This invention enclosed parcels of land and aided in the downfall of the old cowboy way of the cattle drives.
What is barbed wire?
African American soldiers who went to the Great Plains.
Who were Buffalo Soldiers?
He exposed the horrors of tenement housing in the cities. His book was entitled "How the Other Half Lives."
Who was Jacob Riis?
This law aimed to end the Spoils System.
What was the Pendleton Act?
follow up- What was the establishment Civil Service?
A shipping tycoon who becomes a Railroad King.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
We now have sporting events at night and factories can operate 24 hours a day.
What is the light bulb?
These were established to help organize the Railroad system.
What are time zones?
This famous writer termed this time period the "Gilded Age"
Who was Mark Twain?
Regulated RR's between states.
What was the ICC (Interstate Commerce Act)?
The name given to these men who lead their respective industries.
Who were "Robber Barons?"
This new revolution in steel production made the modern city possible.
What was the Bessemer Process?
Allowed farmers to pump water.
What were windmills?
Exposed corruption in the oil industry.
Who was Ida Turbell?
Founder of the American Federation of Labor.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
Leader in the Steel Industry.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
He invented the telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
A law passed to Americanize (assimilate) Native Americans.
What was the Dawes Act?
An undercover journalist who wrote about the lack of regulation in the meat packing industry in "The Jungle."
Who was Upton Sinclair?
Made Monopolies illegal.
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The financier of this time period.
Who was JP Morgan?
Allowed meat to be packaged and transported to the Eastern USA.
What were refrigerated RR cars?
Leader of the Sioux?
Who was Sitting Bull?
Father of the American Political Cartoon.
Who was Thomas Nast?