Technology
Alexander Graham Bell invented this device during the Gilded Age to aid with communication.
Unofficial political organization that works to win elections in order to exercise power
Sometimes referred to as a shadow government
Rose to power in the late 1800s because of ill-equipped local governments that failed to meet the needs of growing urban populations
Political Machine (e.g. Tammany Hall)
Late 19th-century movement Protestant movement preaching that all true Christians should be concerned with the plight of immigrants and other poor residents of American cities and should financially support efforts to improve lives of these poor urban dwellers. Settlement houses were often financed by funds raised by ministers of this movement.
What is Social Gospel?
Police for hire, used in the Pullman Strike by Carnegie
Who are Pinkertons?
The lack of government regulation in business was called this during the 19th century. This concept was inspired by this economic philospher from the 18th century.
What is Laissez-faire capitalism? Who is Adam Smith?
Thomas Edison (with help of Lewis Latimer) invented this device
The application of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to the business world; used by industrialists and social conservatives to discourage government regulation in society and explain why they were getting so rich.
Also gets used in white supremacist contexts, such as eugenics.
What is Social Darwinism?
Women through the WTCU, black women through the NACW, (and black Philadelphia Societies since the 1780s) supported the temperance movement.
Name two women associated with temperance (they don't have to be from these orgs)
Examples; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie A. Nation, Susan B. Anthony
This act to prohibit further immigration to the United States by Chinese laborers was the first act of congress to restrict immigration on the basis of race and nationality.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Match the following Gilded Age tycoons/Robber Barons to their industry: (Standard) Oil, Railroads, Steel
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John Rockefeller
Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt - Railroads
John Rockefeller - Standard Oil
Carnegie - Steel
The first car, the Model T was put together in Henry Ford factories via this method of labor.
What is the assembly line?
Law that prohibited rebates and pools and required the railroads to publish their rates openly. It also forbade unfair discrimination against shippers and outlawed charging more for a short haul than for a long one over the same line. It also set up a Commission to administer and enforce the new legislation.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Founder of the Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycare, and child care classes.
Who is Jane Adams?
This man was the creator of the American Federation of Labor. He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
The myth of meritocracy was perpetuated by a rags to riches narrative. This author was known for books about this kind of story.
Who is Horatio Alger?
Agriculture and the meat packing industry is transformed with this new technology that allows the transportation of spoilable goods to go longer distances and accesses new markets.
What are Refrigerated Cargo Train Cars?
Given the demand for railroad workers and increased economic opportunities in the United States, a wave of immigrants came to work in the west. However, children of Irish and German immigrants formed political alliances against this new wave via this new party.
What is the Know-Nothing party & Nativist movement?
American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
A strike with both the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Unions resulted in violence and a President using federal troops for the first time since the 1830s.
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
A scandal in 1872 where Union Pacific Railroaders formed a construction company and hired themselves at inflated prices to build a railroad line. They then paid off congressmen with shares of the company's stock to keep the lid on it. Newpaper exposé revealed the scandal went as far as the Vice President of the US.
What is the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
Site in Utah where the railway lines built by the Union Pacific (East to West) and Central Pacific (West to East) met in 1869, completing the first transcontinental railroad line and contributing to the integration of the western territories into the rest of the Union and the development of the Great Plains.
What is Promontory Point?
1887 Legislation that allotted each head of household 160 acres of reservation land; land deemed to be "surplus" beyond what was needed for allotment was opened to white settlers with the proceeds invested in education programs; designed to encourage the breakup of the tribes and promote the assimilation of Native Americans into American society. The historical significances that Native Americans lost about 90 million acres of treaty land.
Dawes Severalty Act
Booker T. Washington believed that Black people should prioritize economic independence and technical education over social equality or acceptance. Du Bois felt that Black people must demand equality and integration immediately.
Organization that first allowed both skilled and unskilled workers together, across industries. Large national presence. Notably led by Terence V. Powderly.
Who are/What is the Knights of Labor?
Strategy to maximize profits by attempting to purchase competing companies in the same industry; monopoly-building (ex. Rockefeller's Standard Oil)
Technique used by Carnegie where he combined into one organization all phases of manufacturing from mining to marketing.
What is...
1) Horizontal Integration
2) Vertical Integration