People
Robber Baron who made his money from oil.
Jim Crow laws were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation.
What material allowed cities to start building up? (Skyscrapers)
Steel
Reason for the Chinese Exclusion Act
Westerners blamed Chinese immigrants for lower wages.
Explain Laissez Faire Economics
Theory that says the government should not intervene in the economy except to protect individuals' inalienable rights
Founder of the first billion dollar company.
Andrew Carnegie
Job in the west that created an American icon.
Cowboy
Leader of a political machine
Party Boss
What was the problem with the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Weak, rarely used, monopolies were able to find loopholes like holding companies.
American musical style that originated during the Gilded Age.
Jazz
Killed by US federal agents during the Ghost Dance movement.
Sitting Bull
What were the reasons for the buffalo slaughter? (At least two).
-More land for grazing cattle
-More room for the railroads
-A way to destroy Plain Indian tribes way of life.
Places were groups tried to maintain their own languages, culture, place of worship, and social club.
Ethnic Neighborhoods
Dawes Act of 1887
Law that authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots
Define Knights of Labor
A national labor union (included Black Americans and women). 730,000 members at its peak. Declined after the Haymarket Bombing.
Author who coined the term the Gilded Age.
Mark Twain
Social Gospel led to the creation of these places designed to allow the middle class to help the lower class.
Settlement Houses
Plessy vs Ferguson
Supreme Court ruling allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races."
William Jennings Bryon was a popular Democrat nominee following his Cross of Gold Speech. Why did he lose the Election of 1896?
Farmers were less desperate after food prices rose.
Employers threatening factory workers job.
Robber Barons backed McKinley
Journalist who exposed lynching in the southern states.
Ida B. Wells
The Forest Reserve Act of 1891 and the Forest Management Act of 1897
Proponents of this belief wanted to enforce literacy tests for those seeking to enter the country.
Nativism
Pendleton Act of 1881
Passed after the assignation of President Garfield. The act mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage.
The most hotly debated issue during the Gilded Age was how much to expand the money supply. Was "hard money" backed by silver or gold?
Gold