Populism
The Age of Innovation
Big Business
Labor Issues
Corruption & Reform
200
The Populist Party was formed in the 1890s primarily by members of this occupation.
Who are farmers?
200
American innovation was greatly aided by these official rights given by the government, which allow an inventor to exclusively develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time.
What are patents?
200
This term is used to describe a situation in which an entire industry is controlled exclusively by a single company.
What is a monopoly?
200
In these small factories, employees worked long hours under poor conditions for little pay in order to perform the final steps necessary to finish products manufactured in larger factories.
What were sweatshops?
200
This term is used to describe the practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications.
What was the spoils system?
400
This farmers' organization, which focused primarily on education and advocating for lower railway rates, was formed shortly after the Civil War.
What is the Grange?
400
This term is used to describe a person who builds and manages a business or enterprise in order to make a profit.
What is an entrepreneur?
400
This law was intended to restrict the creation of organizations that ran multiple corporations.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
This event, which took place in Chicago in 1886, hurt the labor movement because many Americans came to believe that union members were violent anarchists.
What was the Haymarket Riot?
400
This U.S. president and hero of the Civil War found his administration marred by numerous scandals and corruption due to his willingness to trust friends of poor character.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
600
This presidential hopeful was the first major candidate to campaign in-person for national office by traveling throughout the country on railroads.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
600
This American inventor held over 1,000 patents, including for the invention of the light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
600
This American industrialist founded the Standard Oil Company, which eventually controlled nearly 90% of the United States oil industry during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
600
Employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions when taking part in this process.
What is collective bargaining?
600
This legislation was passed in 1883 in an attempt to reduce government corruption by requiring merit-based hiring for federal jobs.
What was the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
800
This Republican defeated the Democratic- and Populist-backed presidential candidate in 1896 and 1900, but was assassinated in 1901 shortly after the start of his second term.
Who was William McKinley?
800
This method for refining large quantities of iron into steel helped to fuel the widespread construction of skyscrapers and railroads in the late 1800s.
What is the Bessemer process?
800
An individual who holds an interest in a corporation, and who thereby participates in its profits without bearing responsibility for its debts, is known by this title.
What is a stockholder?
800
Karl Marx created this economic theory, under which the means of production are publicly controlled and regulated rather than owned by individuals.
What is socialism?
800
This term was coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era as a facade of prosperity.
What was the Gilded Age?
1000
This term is used to describe currency that is not backed by gold or silver.
What is fiat money?
1000
In 1861, this man opened the United States' first department store in Philadelphia.
Who was John Wanamaker?
1000
This term describes a group of separate companies that are placed under the control of a single managing board in order to form a monopoly.
What is a trust?
1000
This name is given to the belief that certain nations, races, and individuals were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over them.
What is Social Darwinism?
1000
The assassination of this U.S. president by a man who was angry about not receiving a government job led to increasing efforts for Civil Service reform.
Who was James Garfield?