The Gilded Age

Westward Expansion

100

This railroad connected the east and west coasts of the country.

The Transcontinental Railroad

200

Name one of the economic incentives for settling out west after the Civil War.

Gold/Silver

Beef

300

Nativism led Congress to pass this law in 1882, which ended Chinese immigration

The Chinese Exclusion Act

400

This invention ended the open range of the west, and limited ranchers who wanted to let their cattle roam the plains. Ouch!

What is Barbed Wire?

500

These two groups of immigrants made up large parts of the labor force that built the Transcontinental Railroad

Chinese

Irish

600

This battle was the most decisive victory for the Indians against the invading Americans.

Little Bighorn

700

This tribe and their chief Sitting Bull triumphed against General Custer at "Custer's Last Stand"

The Sioux

Immigration and Urbanization

100

This was the main entryway for immigrants in the eastern United States.

Ellis Island

200

Many Americans expressed this feeling that viewed immigrants with a sense of fear, suspicion, and hostility

Nativism

300

If cities are urban areas, the areas pictured here in green and pink are known as this.

What are the Suburbs?

400

Groups like the one in the image are groupings of immigrants with similar ethnicites together into little neighborhoods called THIS.

Enclaves

500

This lung disease was common in the Gilded Age, killing about 60% of immigrant babies before their first birthday.

Tuberculosis

600

Name two ways that steel impacted what you see in this image.

Long Bridges

Tall Buildings

700

What type of building is pictured here?

Dumbell Tenement

The Industrial Revolution

100

The millionaires of the Gilded age had two names, "Captain of Industry" to their fans and THIS to their critics

Robber Barrons

200

Name 4 inventions from the Gilded Age

Lightbulb

Phonograph

Typewriter

Telephone

Cash Register

ETC ETC

300

The IndustRial RevOlution waS fuEled by four industries

Railroad

Oil

Steel

Electricity

400

Corporations in the Gilded Age used mergers to increase profits, which led to these two different types of integration for monopolies. EXPLAIN WHAT THEY ARE.

Horizontal - Buy all of one Industry

Vertical - Buy out supply chain, distribution, shipping, etc etc.

500

Using this new process of making quality steel, Carnegie was able to out-produce his competition, offering better quality steel at lower prices

Bessemer Process

600

This man created the Standard Oil Company

John Rockefeller

700

Name one of the ways that monopolists justified their wealth

Gospel of Wealth

Social Darwinism

Laissez-Faire Economics

Corporate Power and Labor

100

What era followed the Civil War, often described as a period of rapid economic growth masking underlying social problems?

The Gilded Age

200

Ulysses S. Grant (former general during the Civil War) was the most important president of the Gilded Age, but had this problem.

Scandals

Corruption

300

The most notorious urban politician was this man of New York’s Tammany Hall. He has a head made of money!

Boss Tweed

400

Because machine-backed politicians controlled access to city jobs, business licenses, and building projects, they tended to be this; meaning to work for yourself instead of the people you represent.

Corrupt

500

Many city governments were run by these, shady organizations who bribed networks of politicians.

Political Machine

600

Congress passed this law in 1883 that created merit-based exams for most civil service jobs in the federal government

Pendleton Act

700

Name one of the two major scandals of the Grant administration.

Whiskey Ring

Credit Mobilier

Politics and Reform

100

Name one labor union from the Gilded Age

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Knights of Labor

200

What is a Union?

When workers unite and negotiate (collectively bargain) for better wages, working conditions, and hours at their place of work.

300

Describe a strike.

When workers refuse to work and refuse to let replacement workers enter their place of work. It is a tactic to achieve the goals of the union.

400

What was a problem farmers faced in the Gilded Age

Inflation

Over Production

High Interest Rates

500

This political party was meant to represent the people; or what was popular among the nation's rural poor. They even win a few states in the 1892 presidential election!

The Populists

600

Railroad workers led a national strike when the Pullman Palace Company did what?

Cut wages by 50%

700

Many populists called for an end to this government policy, French for "Hands Off".

Laissez-faire economics