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Upton Sinclair
American author who wrote oevr 100 books. Won the "Pulitzer Prize For Fiction" award. -
The Factory System
How the factories worked back then. It was normal to work 12 hour days, 6 days a week in most factories -
John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century -
Manifest Destiny and the Settlement of the West
Anglos that that is their god given right to claim the land. The west pulled settlers due to the extrmely inexpensive land. -
Eugenics
The concept of a white, blonde- haired, blue-eyed race for everyone and if you wernt this way you were not in power at all. -
Bessemer Process
first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel. Named after inventor Henry Bessemer who patented it 4 years later, after it was invnted in 1855 -
Eugene V. Debs
Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World -
Americanization
Americanization started with the expansion of the west and the railroads along with indusrtrialization. -
The Homestead act
The Homestead act gave access to people who the age of 21 or over could claim 160 acres of land -
Growth Of Railroads
It completed the First Transcontential Railroad. Led to major increase of transportation and saving lots of time to travel. -
Industrialization and urbanization in the Gilded Age
Industrailization improved transportation and communication. Trains and and railroad imporvment helped with seetlement with land far west. -
Invention Of Barbed Wire
Helped ranchers tame the land and keep unwanted out and wanted inside. -
Political corruption
Governments were naïve about business and the ways that individuals and companies made money, both legally and illegally. -
political machines
political machines dominated the urban politics disrtibuting city jobs -
Veritcal and Horizontal integration
Vertical integration is the merging together of two businesses that are at different stages of production. horizontal integration is where absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level -
Tweed
To escape arrest, Tweed fled to Spain. Ironically, he was identified from Nast cartoons circulated in that country, and as a result was captured by Spanish authorities and extradited back to the United States. -
Immigration and the American Dream
About 10 million immigrants came to the United states looking for the frredom and great oppertunuties known as the american dream. -
Nativism
Nativism in the Gilded age was these immigrants who acted as big wealthy anglos came from immigrants. but they set restrictions and policies on new coming immigrants to america. -
unions
workers got mad with the horrible working conditions. The low pay with high hours, so they made these unions who demanded beter. -
Social Darwinism
He had the idea that all species either adapt to their environment, evolve, or they would die. It would say that the weak, poor, or sick would die off and the strong wealthy rich will survive. -
Invention of the Automobile
The invention of the automobile was one of the biggest things that occured during the Gilded Age. It provided a better, safer, and faster way to get to place to place. -
Haymarket Riot
labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day -
The Dawes Act Federal Indian Policy
The act allowed the presdient to break up the reervation lands.Native Americans registering on a tribal,were granted a piece of reservation land. To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section ; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section -
Assimilation
Took native children off the reserves and took them to boarding school and forced them to be more anglo. -
Trust and AntiTrust
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 was finally signed into law. It forbade combinations in restraint of trade, without any distinction between “good” trusts and “bad” trusts. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
Soldiers came and surrounded Big Foot and started to seize the indians weapons. While a fight broke out between an indian and a slodier. A shot was fired and all the us caveraly stareted killing indians. 150 indians were killed and 25 soldiers were killed -
Teddy Roosevelt
President Of The United Ststes (1901-1909) -
Food and Drug Act
regulated food and drugs moving in interstate commerce and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of poisonous patent medicines. Signed by Theodore Roosevelt -
Assembly Line
Henry ford redifined the assembly line, if engine installation would only take 20 minutes which made the automobile.
