Inventions
Created a way to get electricity into homes and businesses
Who is Thomas Edison?
What was the French Word called that said the government would be hands off in the economy?
Laissez-Faire
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 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
This is a term used to describe corruption in politics during this time period.
What is grant-ism?
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?
This Gilded Age law prevented the immigration of a group of people into the United States.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act 1882?
He was a present who served 2 terms, but not consecutively during this Era in history.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
This Gilded Age law took tribal reservation land, and assimilated the Indians.
What is the Dawes Act?
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?
This Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson legalized discrimination--- stating, separate was____.
What is Equal?
This reformer sought to help women gain the right to vote?
Who is Susan B Anthony?
_____ was a term used to give jobs to political supporters. (during the time of Jackson it was called the Spoils System)
What is patronage?
The rapid growth of cities due to the influx of people
What is urbanization?
These two groups of immigrants worked on the Railroads in the late 1800s.
Who are the Irish and the Chinese?
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 Thomas Nast?
a big business owned by many investors
what is a corporation?
Investigative journalists exposing corruption, poverty, health hazards, and monopolies
Who are muckrakers?
This Gilded Age law created an examination and review commission for all government appointed jobs.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883?
This Act the government trying to control business between states and was initially ineffective.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
This innovation in factories created a more efficient production of goods, making goods cheaper and more widely available to Americans
What is the assembly line?
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 businesses make the decisions about how much to produce and at what price
what is a capitalist economy?
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 law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost.
What is the Homestead Act?
Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States?
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
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?
A belief that native- born white Americans were superior to newcomers/immigrants?
What is nativism?
a factor that brought immigrants to the U.S. throughout its history is a ______________.
Pull factor
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?