Technologies
Innovation in transportation during the Gilded Age.
What were steamboats, the Erie Canal, and the early railroads?
Signed the Pacific Railroad Act, authorizing the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
Who was President Lincoln?
What were the Fort Laramie promises?
The Fort Laramie Treaties (1851 and 1868) promised Native American tribes peace, territorial sovereignty, and annual goods.
The number of immigrants who migrated to the US during the Gilded Age.
Over 12 million.
What was the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
It was an alliance of skilled workers that was founded in 1886. Unlike the Knights of Labor, they did not welcome unskilled workers, women, or racial minorities.
Where the Industrial Revolution began.
What are Rhode Island and Massachusetts?
What immigrants mostly built the transcontinental railroad?
What are the Chinese?
The Great Plains were home to how many Indians?
About 250,000
During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, a massive wave of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe came to America. The overwhelming majority of these "new" immigrants came from...
What are Italy, Poland, Russia, and Greece?
What stopped the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
State militia and federal troops called out by President Hayes finally crushed the strike and restored order.
A series of inventions created new industries that transformed American life. These included...
The typewriter, elevator, refrigerator, and washing machine.
By 1893, ___ transcontinental lines linked the east and west coasts.
Five
Winner of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
What are the Native Americans?
In exchange for their votes, the boss and his ward leaders provided poor immigrants with services such as...
Free food, clothing, and coal.
The Knights of Labor denounced "wage-slavery" and were dedicated to achieving a "cooperative commonwealth" of independent workers. The union hoped to achieve this idealistic goal how?
By encouraging workers to combine their wages so that they could collectively purchase mines, factories, and stores.
How many tons of steel were produced in 1860
13,000
What did the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 do?
Authorized the construction of a 40,000-mile network of four-lane interstate highways.
Threatened to end the autonomy of the Plains Indians
What was the construction of transcontinental railroads, the slaughter of the buffalo, the spread of epidemic diseases, and the destructive effects of constant warfare?
How were immigrants received in the US?
There was prejudice, discrimination, and people disliked them because they took jobs.
What organizations helped new immigrants fight poverty, become better educated, and assimilate into this new nation?
settlement houses
Mining technologies in the Gilded Age included...
...compressed-air drills, dynamite, and square-set timbering for deep shafts.
Who were the railroads bad for?
The Plains Indians and their culture - The bison were being killed off easily by hunters.
What did the Indian Reorganization Act do?
The act reversed the assimilationist policies set in motion by the Dawes Act by recognizing, strengthening, and preserving the tribes' historic traditions and culture. The law also restored the Indians' historic traditions and culture. The law also restored the Indians' right to manage their land and mineral rights.
What were Sacco and Vanzetti?
Italian immigrant anarchists executed in the US on August 23, 1927, for a 1920 armed robbery and murder in Braintree, Massachusetts.
What was the Pullman Strike?
The 1894 Pullman Strike was a widespread nationwide railroad boycott and labor conflict that halted rail traffic in 27 states, initiated by American Railway Union (ARU) workers against the Pullman Palace Car Company.