Economics
This term refers to when one company has at least 90% of the market share of their particular industry, granting them immense power.
What is a monopoly?
This system promised government positions and jobs to those who supported a politician's election campaigns
What is the Spoils System?
Which president was assassinated for his beliefs about the Spoils System during the Gilded Age?
President Garfield
This transportation technology revolutionised movement and was directly responsible for Western America growing in size and population.
What is the railroad?
This term explains how cities grew larger and more populated during the late 1800's.
What is Urbanization?
This economic system promoted markets that were not subject to government regulations, and advocated for competition to regulate prices.
What is Capitalism?
This act secured land out west for families willing to move out and work the land.
What was the Homestead Act?
This popular term helped describe cities that had all of their politics and people wrapped up in one interconnected mechanism.
What is a Political Machine?
What concept was developed to help keep railroads moving on a standard time throughout the nation?
What are timezones?
These groups were formed by labourers who wanted to fight for better working conditions and pay.
What are Worker's Unions?
These terms were used to either compliment or insult the ultra-wealthy of the Gilded Age.
What are captains of industry/robber barons?
This political party was split three different ways on how to handle to Spoils System in America and supported hands-off economic policy.
Who was the Republican Party
Who was William "Boss" Tweed?
These towns grew in size rapidly in the West, just to be abandoned the second mines dried up.
What are boom towns/ghost towns?
This phenomenon was the most cited reason for cities exploding in population during the late 1800's.
What is immigration?
This term was used to describe U.S. economic policy during the Gilded Age, where they were very hands-off.
What is laissez-faire economics?
This act reformed requirements to hold certain government positions in America to require a civil service exam, hurting the Spoils System.
What was the Pendleton Act?
This agreement reached between the Republicans and the Democrats gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency and effectively ended Reconstruction in America.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Instead of growing multiple kinds of plants to sustain themselves, in order to make ends meet farmers had to grow one specific type of crop that made money, usually referred to in this way.
What is a cash crop?
This statistic held that the top 10% richest Americans held 90% of the money of the country during the Gilded Age.
What is wealth inequality?
This company formed a monopoly on oil in America until it was broken up by an anti-trust act.
What is Standard Oil?
This group of Republicans believed that the Spoils System should remain in place and defended it in Congress.
Who were the Stalwarts?
This scandal under President Grant involved his cabinet importing whiskey tax-free and cost the US millions.
What is the Whiskey Ring?
This group of people banded together to advocate for farmer's rights and called for low interest government loans to support farmers buying equipment. They were also heavily segregated.
What is the Farmer's Alliance?
This the name of the enormous estate owned by the Vanderbilt family that we examined during our living situation image activity.
What is the Biltmore Estate?