Key Vocab
Where a single company is the exclusive seller of a product or service with no competition.
Monopoly
A term for anyone moving from one place to another (usually within the same country) often temporarily for work or better conditions.
Migrant.
Supporters of the "New South" wanted the region to become more like what part of the country?
The industrialized North.
This word for "financial crisis/depression" which caused widespread unemployment in the 1890s.
Panic.
What did workers do when they protested for extra pay and better working conditions by not working?
(One word)
Strike.
The belief that native born people should be treated better than immigrants.
Nativism.
A type of migrant who moves to a foreign country with the specific intent to live there permanently.
Immigrant.
Amendment that made owning slaves illegal.
13th Amendment
The economic system of the Gilded Age.
Unregulated industrial capitalism.
Organizations developed to protect the rights of workers during Industrialization.
Labor Union/ Unions.
The rapid growth of cities during the Gilded Age is known by this term.
Urbanization.
He made his fortune in the steel business during the Gilded Age
Andrew Carnegie
The frequently used name for segregation laws that denied basic rights to black Americans.
Jim Crow Laws
What was the importance of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Goods were able to be shipped faster from coast to coast and/or it helped with settling out west and through the great plains.
The first targeted immigration restriction in US history, refused entry to people from this nation.
China
This was a positive term used to describe big business owners during the Gilded Age
Captains of Industry
He made a fortune as a banker and financier during the Gilded Age
JP Morgan
A case in which the Supreme Court held that segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment so long as facilities were "equal but separate".
Plessy v. Ferguson
Name the 3 major inventions that helped lead to the growth of industry and urban cities.
Telephone, Steel production methods (like the Bessemer process), Lightbulb/electricity, transcontinental RRs
Describe what "tenements" were used for and the conditions.
Cramped, multi-family apartment buildings, primarily in cities, designed to house low-income workers and immigrants. Often poorly constructed and severely overcrowded, they typically lacked sanitation, proper ventilation, and safety.
This was a negative term used to describe big business owners during the Gilded Age
Robber Barrons
He made his fortune in the oil business during the Gilded Age
Many Southern farmers and newly freed African Americans relied on this system of labor of working on someone else's farm, which often led to poverty and debt.
Sharecropping.
Why is this time period coined the "Gilded Age"?
To mock the era's surface of wealth hiding deep poverty, wealth inequality, and corruption.
List 3 characteristics of working conditions of the average worker in the Gilded Age.
No weekends (for largest employers)
Others worked 12 hours a day, 6 days a week
No vacation, sick leave, unemployment compensation, or injury/accident reimbursement.
Jobs were very unsafe/ No safety regulations/ Many people died or lost limbs
Low wages
Child labor