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100

The leader of the New York Democratic Party's political machines.

Who was Boss Tweed?

100
A period of time directly following the Civil War when the US (esp. the South) was grappling with the implications of abolishing slavery.

What was Reconstruction?

100

This act gave federal grants to private companies to finish the transcontinental railroad.

What was the Pacific Railroad Act?

100

William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech exemplifies this particular economic debate of the Gilded Age.

What was the silverites v. goldbugs debate?

100

A writer who coined the phrase "Gilded Age"

Who was Mark Twain?

200

A civil rights advocate who argued for a focus on education, and for the "talented 10th" to take the lead.

Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?

200
The place where immigrants largely started to come from after 1850 or so (before they mostly came from Germany and Ireland).

What was Eastern Europe?

200
The first significant US immigration restriction; passed in 1882.

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

200
Laws passed in the 1860s and 1870s regulating the prices companies charged farmers to store their crops; some of the first government intervention in the economy.

What were the Granger Laws?

200

The capitalist that asserted his position as the most powerful man in America by bailing out the US bank.

Who was JP Morgan?
300

A progressive who created the American Federation of Labor (a union for skilled laborers).

Who was Samuel Gompers?

300

Three technological innovations that changed America with industrialization.

What were (3 of the following) railroads, factories, Bessamer Process, telephone, electric light bulb, electric grid system, consumer cameras, the assembly line?

300

An act that regulated railroad monopolies; required railroad companies to publicize rates.

What was the Interstate Commerce Act (1887)?
300
A treaty the US government signed with the Sioux, which set aside the Black Hills as their territory. (It lasted for like 10 minutes.)

What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie?

300

An activist who set up settlement houses to help immigrants find jobs.

Who was Jane Addams?

400

Three of the four main industrial capitalists ("robber barons").

Who were Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt?

400

One of the tariffs that the US federal government enacted during the Gilded Age (one of the few ways they actually intervened in the economy)

What was the McKinley Tariff?

OR

What was the Dingley Tariff?

400

One of the first labor unions, focused on unskilled laborers

What were the Knights of Labor?

400

A school created to assimilate Native Americans.

What was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?

400

The deadliest industrial fire in the history of New York City; happened in 1911 and led to improved factory safety standards.

What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?

500

A reverend who argued for nativism. (Social gospel but racist)

Who was Rvd. Josiah Strong?

500

This led to the growth of the middle class.

What was a 50% increase in real wages?
500

A strike that involved fighting between Pinkerton detectives and workers at a Carnegie Steel factory.

What was the Homestead Strike (1892)?
500

This act towards the end of the Gilded Age introduced civil service exams for those entering office.

What was the Pendleton Act

500

Three leisure activities popularized during the gilded age.

What were baseball, amusement parks, department stores, mass circulation of newspapers, mail-order catalogues?