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100
Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is a New Immigrant?
100

Formed in 1893 by John D. Rockefeller, this company consolidated all competition in the industry using horizontal integration.

Standard oil

100
People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a large money supply and other economic reforms
Who is the Populist Party?
100
1896 Supreme Court decision allowing for "separate but equal facilities?
Plessy v Ferguson
100

This early populist leader turned democratic nominee championed economic causes such as the unlimited coinage of silver and and political causes such as the direct election of US senators

W. J. Bryan

200

These poor condition windowless apartments run by profit-minded urban landlords were the primary dwellings for many new immigrants flocking to the US during the Gilded Age

Tenements

200

This organization of business allowed multiple companies to be under the umbrella of a single entity, in effect creating a monopoly through limiting competition and controlling prices.

Trusts 

200
Law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
200
established Hull House ( a settlement house in Chicago in 1889.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
Use gold as the basis of the nation's currency.
What is the gold standard?
300

This became the entry point for new arrivals to the US after 1892 and acted to restrict immigration through strict medical examinations and entry tax.

Ellis island

300

This is a business strategy, employed by early Steel manufacturers, in which a company would control every stage of the industrial process, controlling production in an effort to maximize profit.

Vertical integration

300
Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s
What are Political machines?
300
He argued that blacks should demand full and immediate equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
300
Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.
What is the Gilded Age?
400
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400

This legislation, introduced in 1890, was an effort by the US government to prohibit any combination of business "in restraint of trade or commerce".

Sherman antitrust act

400

This social and educational organization of farmers in the United States fought against monopolies and high transportation costs and was a precursor to the Populist movement.

Grange movement or farmer's alliances

400
Argued that African Americans needed to accommodate themselves to segregation.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400

This gilded age ideology espoused by big business leaders such as Rockefeller and Carnegie argued that the wealthy were favored by God and had a responsibility to be philanthropic.

Gospel of wealth

500
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?
What is nativism?
500

This legislation introduced by the administration of Grover Cleveland in 1887, was a federal law that regulated the railroad industry, making it the first industry to be subject to federal regulation.

Interstate commerce act

500

This largely unpopular tax on foreign products during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison was an effort by probusiness republicans to encourage domestic industry and economic growth.

MCKINLEY TARIFF

500
Fought for women's voting rights, she cast a ballot in the presidential election of 1872?
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
500

This law of 1887 broke up reservation land into individual allotments and gave it to Native Americans on the assumption that they would adopt American ways.

Dawes act