Standard of Living/Middle Class Growth
During the Gilded Age, 92% of American families lived below this.
What is the Poverty Line?
This act granted public land for educational purposes.
What is the Morrill Act?
These types of people gave large sums of their money away, usually to colleges.
Who are philanthropist?
Protestant clergymen throughout the Gilded Age often preached this to display their support for the urban poor.
What is the Social Gospel?
During the Gilded Age, the average person did this for 10 to 18 hours a day, 6 days a week.
This person, born on July 8, 1839, had a monopoly on oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
American Pageant pgs. 174-178
These institutions advocated for workers' rights, like higher wages or less hours.
What are Labor Unions?
An economic policy that does not involve government interference, and looks to allow economics to take their own course.
What are laissez-faire economics?
AMSCO pg. 365
This company divided the United States into 4 time zones.
What is the American Railroad Association?
These were commonly done by workers who were treated unfairly.
What are strikes?
This was the year the National Labor Union was established, and hoped it would unite all workers into one union.
When was 1866?
A religion that had a significant influence on reform movements throughout the Gilded Age, especially its “evangelical” variant.
What is Christianity?
During the Gilded Age, the quantity and quality of medicine and food increased. As a result, this standard rose throughout the United States.
These are the growing group of people in America as industrialization provided new jobs, but would soon be replaced by more efficient machines.
This organization began in 1869 as a secret society, and hoped to unite all workers into one labor union.
What are the Knights of Labor
Throughout the Gilded Age, this movement, expanded by industrial capitalism, sought to establish equal citizenship between all people, beginning with abolitionism.
What is the women’s rights movement?