Economic
The Gilded Age marked the shift into this type of economy
What is Laissez-Faire?
This was the first major piece of legislation targeted at breaking up trusts, but it was weakly enforced and often turned on labor unions instead.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This essay was created by a steel magnate, arguing that wealthy Americans had a moral obligation to engage in philanthropy.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Investigative journalists who wrote about corporate abuses and injustices.
What is are Muckrakers?
A business strategy where a company owns all phases of production.
What is vertical integration?
This was a major political scandal involving key members of President Grant’s administration surrounding illegal tax fraud.
What is the Whiskey Ring?
This intellectual movement argued that the wealthiest Americans were the most brightest, adopting Darwin's "Survival of the Fittest" theory.
What is Social Darwinism?
Movement adopting Christian values to remove societal ills, such as drunkenness, poverty, and economic inequality.
What is the Social Gospel?
The richest man of America as of 1898.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This New York Democratic political machine operated through hierarchical structures to control and provide jobs and social services in exchange for votes.
What is Tammany Hall?
This movement depicted the lives of the working class in New York City, using gritty color palettes and realism.
What is the Ash-Can School?
A railroad strike in 1894 that marked the first time the federal government intervened in a strike.
What is the Pullman Strike?