Inventions
Created a way to get electricity into homes and businesses
Who was Thomas Edison?
This Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson legalized discrimination--- stating, separate was____.
What is Equal?
a big business owned by many investors
what is a corporation?
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists and captains of industry
Bonus: What are two positive things they arguably did?
Robber barrons
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This Gilded Age industrial owners encouraged labor unions. (True or False)
What is False?
This allowed for long distance communication to happen rapidly.
What is the telegraph?
Business owners tried to get rid of competition by owning entire/product or service in an industry. This is called a________ (Hint: Like the board game)
What is a Monopoly/Trusts?
What was the name of the man, who used a mafia like group called Tammany Hall, that used bribery and voter fraud to take advantage of immigrants and corrupt officials in government?
Who is Boss Tweed?
A common technique used by labor unions, where groups of employees refuse to work until their demands are met, is called ___________.
What is a strike?
This Gilded Age captain of industry/robber baron is known as the father of philanthropy as well as a successful steel businessman.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
These newspaper drawings helped bring down the infamous political machine known as Tammany Hall, as well as shed light on issues within our country/government.
What are political cartoons?
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
Telephone
Mark Twain coined the term_________, a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath. (hint: its what period/era we are studying)
What is the Gilded Age?
Name one president that allowed scandal and corruption in the government, such as the Credit Mobilier Scandal (railroad company corruption) OR allowing Reconstruction to end?
Ulysses S. Grant or Rutherford B. Hayes
This Gilded Age law, passed in 1882, prevented the immigration of a specific group of people from coming into the United States.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act 1882?
What is the name of hired detectives used by robber barons to protect their businesses from strikers?
Pinkerton Detectives
The rapid growth of cities due to the influx of people
What is urbanization?
This new type of transportation system had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States?
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
the growth of businesses that manufacture products through the use of machinery
what is industrialization?
This Gilded Age reformer attacked political corruption through his famous cartoons.
Who is Joseph Keppler?
Extra Credit: Thomas Nast
Which strike led to railroad workers blocking the railroads to decrease profits?
The Pullman Strike
Prohibited businesses from being anti-competitive (total domination of an industry)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What is the French Word that means "allow to do"... and in terms of economic policy, it means that the government would be hands off in the economy?
Laissez-Faire
This new process made the production of steel more economical
What is the Bessemer Process?
The process that allowed for the mass production of steel, a turning point in history that set the stage for mass development and growth.
Steel became a dominant construction material solely because of this invention. In England, the cost of steel dropped from £40 GBP to £6-7 GBP per long ton.
On February 4, 1887, both the Senate and House passed the ________________ Act, which applied the Constitution's “Commerce Clause”—granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”—to regulating railroad rates.
the Interstate Commerce Act
JP Morgan controlled the_________ industry; Rockfeller controlled the___________ industry; and Carnegie controlled the_________ industry.
What is Banking (Morgan); Oil (Rockefeller), Steel (Carnegie)?
An economy where private businesses make the decisions about how much to produce and at what price.
what is a capitalist economy?
A belief that native- born white Americans were superior to newcomers/immigrants?
What is nativism?
The _________________Act of 1862 was a revolutionary concept for distributing public land in American history. This law turned over vast amounts of the public domain to private citizens. 270 millions acres, or 10% of the area of the United States was claimed and settled under this act. Repercussions of this monumental piece of legislation can be detected throughout America today.
What is the Homestead Act?