Created the lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
What was the French Word called that said the government would be hands off in the economy?
Laissez-Faire
The ruthless tactics they used to destroy their competition and methods used to keep workers' wages low.
Captains of Industry OR robber barons
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists who were seen as the greedy rich people.
Robber Barrons
Investigative reporters, writers, and social scientists exposed the industrial and governmental corruption
Muckrakers
What is this political cartoon expressing? Teacher judges the student answer.
Did you get it?
This Gilded Age industrial owners encouraged labor unions. (True or False)
What is False?
This allowed for long-distance communication to happen rapidly (used morse code).
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?
This person controlled the Railroad Industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This was the term applied to wealthy industry owners who were seen as doing good for society.
What are Captains of Industry?
___________ agreed with W.E.B. that African Americans should seek their civil rights, but he disagreed on how they should achieve those rights.
Booker T. Washington
This Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson legalized discrimination--- stating, separate but ____.
What is Equal?
Who is responsible for this...
Who is Thomas Edison?
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
What is the 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 person controlled the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Gilded Age law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost (160 acres)
What is the Homestead Act?
“Pure Food & Drug Act”
law that required foods and drugs to be pure and accurately labeled
Many of these circulated in newspapers during the Gilded Age: Drawings depicting messages about businesses/government/etc.
What are political cartoons?
This process created steel cheaper and quicker (brought over from England).
Who are the Irish or the Chinese?
the growth of businesses that manufacture products through the use of machinery/industry
What is industrialization?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
a big business owned by many shareholders
what is a corporation?
1896 Election – Populists supported_____________________ for President due to his “Cross of Gold” speech in which he supported the unlimited coinage of silver, instead of gold
William Jennings Bryan
________ was America's first big business aiding in transportation.
What are railroads?
This type of engine powered trains and ships.
What is the steam engine?
This innovation in factories created a more efficient production of goods, making goods cheaper and more widely available to Americans (______ line)
What is the assembly line?
Who is J.P. Morgan?
what are Trustees?
Jewish organization opposed to religious prejudice
Anti-Defamation League
Federal law aimed at stopping monopolies and trustsfrom engaging in unfair practices.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Term used to describe buying companies in order to gain materials or transportation for products.
What is Vertical Integration?
Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States by connecting it to the east?
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
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 industry owner is known as the father of philanthropy as well as a successful steel businessman.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Belief that natural competition weeds out the weak and allows the strong to survive.
What is Social Darwinism?
Identify these Progressive Presidents in order. Left to right.
Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft
Term for a person who gives money to charities. Think of Carnegie.
What is a Philanthropist?