Gilded Age Laws
Captains of Industry
Inventions
Political Figures
Settling the West
100
Banned Chinese immigration for 10 years
Chinese Exclusion Act
100
Founder of Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller
100
Perfected by Thomas Edison in 1879
Lightbulb
100
This President was assassinated by a disappointed office-seeker, leading to the end of the Spoils System.
James Garfield
100
Name of homes built by settlers on the Great Plains before common building supplies became available.
Sod Houses
200
Gave 160 acres to settlers who did not support the Confederacy and improved the land over a 5-year period.
Homestead Act
200
Leader of the Steel Industry
Andrew Carnegie
200
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
Telephone
200
Political Party that called for the free coinage of silver.
Populist Party
200
Constructed by Irish and Chinese immigrants, this significantly sped up the process of settling the West.
Transcontinental Railroad.
300
Allowed the government to break up monopolies.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
300
Railroad Consolidator known as "the Commodore"
Cornelius Vanderbilt
300
Invention by Henry Bessemer that allowed for the mass production of steel.
Bessemer Process
300
This president signed the Pendleton Act, leading to the end of the Spoils System.
Chester Arthur
300
What process is illustrated below?
Assimilation
400
Allowed the government to regulate businesses that traded across state lines.
Interstate Commerce Act
400
Banker and financier who later inspired the Monopoly Man
J. P. Morgan
400
Technology used by John D. Rockefeller when railroads refused to transport his oil.
Pipelines
400
The corrupt leader of the New York political machine (Tammany Hall) that relied on the votes of immigrants
William "Boss" Tweed
400
Name given to African Americans who escaped the South by taking advantage of the Homestead Act.
Exodusters
500
This law ended the Spoils System, requiring applicants to take exams in order to prove they they are qualified for government jobs.
Pendleton Act
500
Partner of Andrew Carnegie who was responsible for the Johnstown Flood
Henry Frick
500
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell in an attempt to locate the bullet lodged in President Garfield's back.
Metal Detector
500
This three-time presidential candidate supported the free coinage of silver and served as a prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial
William Jennings Bryan
500
This law attempted to assimilate Native Americans by giving them land.
Dawes Act