BIG BUSINESS
The three leaders of the heavy industries and the industries they controlled?
Answer: Carnegie(steel), Rockefeller(oil), Vanderbilt (railroads)
Many labor unions failed b/c they only allowed these people to become members.
White male skilled laborers
She was such an important suffragette that the U.S. mint put her face on a coin?
Susan b anthony
Unlike progressive, these reformers were mostly focused on helping farmers. They wanted to regulate railroads and print lots of paper money?
Populist Party
The most hated group of immigrants to the U.S. during the Gilded Age came from this country?
Ireland
Three of the major goals of labor unions?
Safe work conditions, 8 hour work day, holiday pay, better pay, etc.
This was the mass exodus of middle-class whites from cities to the suburbs?
White Flight
The Ida who wrote and exposed about the standard oil trust?
Ida Tarbell
Many historians believe he was murdered by the U.S. gov’t for allowing the Ghost Dance?
Sitting Bull
Most Europeans entered this checkpoint?
Ellis Island
This means owning all of one aspect of one type of industry?
Horizontal monopoly and horizontal integration
This school of art depicted the deplorable (bad) conditions which many urban dwellers experienced?
The Ash Can School
She fought for both women's rights and to protect blacks from lynchings, helped create NAACP?
Ida B. Wells
General Sheridan's plan wiping out native americans involved sort of campaigning, which included destruction of buffalo?
Winter Campaigning
Most Asian immigrants came from this checkpoint?
Angel Island
Carnegie, Rockefeller, and other wealthy industrialists were all part of this new developing social class?
Nouveau Riche (“New Rich”)
When he was killed by Leon Czolohosz, the “Mad Man” became president?
William Mckinely
She created the hull house, the first American settlement house, in Chicago?
Jane Addams
This act passed in 1862, allowed widespread settlement of the west?
The Homestead Act
This system establish a specific number of immigrants to be admitted to the US each year?
The Quota system
He invented the term “Gilded Age” to describe superficial wealth?
Mark Twain
Three of the problems facing city dwellers which Progressives hoped to fix?
Alcohol abuse, political corruption, drug use, robbery, prostitution, living conditions, lies about medicine, unsafe food, etc.
Along with Ida B wells he found NAACP to protect rights of blacks
W.E.B Du Bois
This treaty established the reservation system in the U.S.?
Ft. Laramie Treaty?
These people became the first immigrants excluded from the US by law in 1882?
Chinese exclusion act