Early Gilded Age
Immigration
Robber Barons
Unions & Politics
Inventions
100
Because of this, goods were able to be shipped faster from coast to coast and it helped with settling out west and through the great plains.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
The belief that native born people should be treated better than immigrants. Kind of like racism but geared against immigrants, not necessarily a different "race".
What is nativism?
100
This was negative term given to the leaders of industry like Carnegie or Rockefeller who were considered by the poor working population to be greedy, manipulative, and were keeping other people from achieving the same level of success.
What is a Robber Baron?
100
The word for when union members all collectively refuse to work, in order to bargain with their employers for better wages or working conditions
Strikes
100
This invention allowed people to see at night, & changed labor in the Gilded Age
What was the lightbulb? (made people able to work through the night)
200
This word means: Growth of cities due to an influx of people
What is Urbanization?
200
To lose one's cultural identity to become like the more dominant culture
What was Assimilation?
200
When one company has exclusive control over an entire industry, it is called this:
What is monopoly (or trust)?
200
A corrupt & powerful group that bribed immigrants for votes, sometimes using voter fraud.
What is a Political Machine?
200
Allowed for long distance communication without a delay & was invented by Alexander Graham Bell
What is the Telephone?
300
This word means "hands off" and that govt would stay out of businesses. So child labor and immigrants were at an all time high.
What was laissez-faire?
300
Single-family buildings divided into multiple living spaces. Often narrow, low-rise apartments, the rooms were built "railroad style" which meant rooms without windows and poor ventilation.(no air flow) Many were overcrowded and lacked indoor plumbing.
What are tenements?
300
A fancy word for charity. Robber barons like Carnegie gave away a lot of their money to things like libraries and universities and other organizations to avoid negative associations with greed
What is philanthropy?
300
What is the word for the leader of a political machine and name the most infamous one:
Who was Boss Tweed, a political boss ?
300
The invention and implementation of this powered industrial machines and made factories much more efficient
Electricity
400
This was the Act that took land from Native Americans & gave it to white settlers by dividing up tribal plots into individual plots
What was the Dawes Act?
400
a set of laws passed in 1882 that barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
The name of the book Carnegie wrote asking millionaires to donate their money
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
400
A group advocating for more rights & protection for workers
What is a Union?
400
This idea was first implemented by Henry Ford and changed the nature and the value of labor forever
What was the assembly line?
500
This Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting families 160 acres of public land for a minimal filing fee under the condition of five years of continuous residence on that land.
What was the Homestead Act?
500
All immigrants coming from Europe and Countries to the East had to go through this island before entering the United States.
Home of the Statue of Liberty
What was Ellis Island?
500
Name at least 2 robber barons at this time AND what was their industry?
Rockefeller- Oil
Carnegie- Steel
Vanderbilt- Railroad
J.P. Morgan- Loans and Banking
500
After the Haymarket Affair, these things changed about working in America:
what is the 8 Hour Work Day & 40 hour work week?
500
This is a process of steel making that allowed for barbwire and skyscrapers to be made
What was the Bessemer Process?