Industrial & Labor Leaders
This important idea was promoted in Andrew Carnegie's book the Gospel of Wealth.
What is the social responsibility of the wealthy to assist those not as fortunate(philanthropy)?
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 & the Clayton Antitrust Act 1914 were both attempts by Congress to address this issue.
This legislation encouraged westward expansion through allotting people with free land in exchange for developing the land,
What is the Homestead Act?
This is one reasons reformers accused political machines of being corrupt.
What is they used immigrants for votes or they accepted bribes in return for political favors?
This is the description of a Buffalo soldier during the Gilded Age.
What is an African American serving as soldiers in the West after the Civil War?
The Homestead Steel Strike, Pullman Railcar Strike, and Haymarket Riot all had this result in common.
What is the federal government supported the business owners?
This organization formed after economic problems after the Civil war and wanted more government regulation and economic reforms to help farmers.
What is the Populist Party?
The creation of places like the Carlisle Indian Industrial School were made for this purpose.
What is the assimilation of Native Americans into white culture?
These are 2 reasons the "New" immigrants were treated harsher than the "Old" immigrants.
What is religious(Jews, Orthodox, atheist), cultural(spoke different languages & were illiterate), and political biases(nativism)?
The Battle of Wounded Knee, the passage of the DAwes Act, and the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad are all associated with this.
What is the downfall of Native American culture?
This was the reason that labor unions were created.
What was created to combat the mistreatment of workers during the Gilded Age?
Muckrakers like Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair had success in this area.
What is they used their books to expose urban issues and encouraged reform movements(example: Pure Food and Drug Act ect)?
Created in 1913 this aimed to stabilize the financial system by regulating banking practices and managing the money supply in the U.S.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
This is a major reason the population increases in urban areas during the Gilded Age.
What is immigration, transportation improvements (infrastructure) or farmers moving to the cities for factory work?
This is a reason the Dawes Act was unsuccessful.
What is Many Native Americans did not know how to farm or many tribes resisted government's attempt to destroy their culture?
These were the 2 justifications for the disparity of wealth during the Gilded Age.
What is the use of laissez faire capitalism and Social darwinism?
This was the first of its type that provided social, educational, and economic assistance in poor urban neighborhoods.
What is the Hull House started by Jane Adams?
Although Native Americans gained citizenship in 1924, this stopped many from voting in the early 20th century.
What is voting interferences(poll tax & literacy tests)?
Nativism, economic problems on the West Coast and controversy over lower wages impacted the passage of this law.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This is how the railroad transformed the cattle ranching industry in the American west.
What is the railroad and meatpacking industries ended the need for cattle drivers?
These 2 methods of business lowered costs and increased market shares which would lead to the creation of monopolies in the Gilded Age.
What is vertical and horizontal integration?
The Populist initiative mentioned in the famous oration by William Jennings Bryan wanted this.
What is Bimetalism,which based money on gold and silver?
This is why the Battle of Wounded Knee is considered a turning point in US history.
What is it was the last attempt for Natives to resist the encroachment of their land by white settlers?
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest toss, to me..." Emma Lazarus
According to the poem, name 2 reasons immigrants moved to the US.
What is a need to escape poverty, oppression and war in their countries of origin?
This was a situation in which immigrants could obtain "free" land in the American west during the Gilded Age.
What is the Homestead Act (1862)?