-
Andrew Carnegie
born on November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He was the Gilded Age industrialists, the owneer of the Carnegie Steel Company, and he also was a major philanthropist. He also was rising from poverty into one of the wealthiest person in the history of the world. He sold the company in 1901 to J.P. Morgan. -
Manifest Destiny
God had allotted the land to Anglos and it was their duty and destiny to settle the land and tame it -
Bessemer Process
Was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron. This process was named after the inventor Henry Bessemer. -
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858. He was the 26th president of the United States and became president in 1901. He grew up in the Gilded Age and regarded ideals as "mean and sordid". -
The Homestead Act
For a $10 fee an individual could register for land available to settle. If that person farmed, built a house, or otherwise improved the land they got the title in five years. Very hard work but the land was worth it to many. -
Settlement of the West
The homestead act allowed people to own their land. The land was rich and fertile for farming. The development of the steel plow made farming easier. The land was also flat w/o any major mountains. -
Boss Tweed
William Magear Tweed known as "Boss Tweed". Born on April 3, 1823. He was Democratic New York politician and led Tammany Hall to a Democratic section of New York politicians. Was elected New York State Senate in 1867. -
Labor Unions
Labor Unions began to grow during the Gilded Age. Workers had to deal with crazy work on machines, unhealthy/dangerous conditions and also low pay. -
Americanization
This is the process of an immigrant to the U.S.A. becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs & customs and is assimilated into American Society -
John D. Rockfeller
Born on July 8, 1839. The richest man in the world at the time. Right about a billion. He also esablished Standard Oil Company. Found the oil company in !870. -
Federal Indian Policy
Relocation, Conciliation, Appeasement, and confinement -
Political Corruption
When a single corporation achieves control over an entire market it becomes a monopoly. -
Trusts
A controlling interest of the stock in once competing companies is placed in Board of Trustees. -
Barbed Wire
Barbed wire was invented by Lucien B. Smith. It was invented to keep cattle fenced in. -
Growth of Railroads
The expansion of railroads after the Civil War provided the most important force for change in the nation.Transportation costs dropped, and the transportation expanded facilities encouraged the spread of cotton farming. -
Political Machines
Political Machines controlled the activities of politcal parties in the city. Ward bosses and city boss worked to ensure that candidates were elected and to make sure that the city government worked to their advantage -
Upton Sinclair
Upton was born on September 20, 1878. He was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. -
Immigration
By the late 1870s the pace of immigration to America, curtailed during the Civil War era, had begun to accelerate again. Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, and Ireland came to the United States, and Chicago became one of their favorite destinations. The American economy had begun to show signs of revival, rail yards and factories offered plentiful jobs to unskilled laborers. -
Eugenics
Eugenics was fudamental beliefs, conservatives and progressives. Woodrow Wilson even believed in Eugenics. By the end of World War II, Eugenics fell into disrepute becsuse of the association w/ Hitler. -
The Automoblie
The automobile was first invented in 1894 by a German inventor. This invention was the greatest impact of the American Economy during the Gilded Age. -
Assimilation
Settlement houses - a community center for immigrants to set up by middle class women that provided help in finding work and place to learn English. -
Haymarket Riot
The title is also caled Haymarket Affair or Haymarket Massacre. This riot created widespread hysteria directed against immigration and labour leaders -
Dawes Act
Broke up the Tribal system granting 160 acre plots to individuals.If the Natives followed all laws place upon them they could become citizens in 1924 -
Anti-Trust
Congress passed this act to break up monopolistic business combinations -
Nativism
A political sentiment which favors great rights and privilages for white and native-born Americans -
Battle of the Wounded Knee
This battle was near the Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA. This battle was the last battle of the American Indian Wars. At least 150 men, women, and children of Lakota had been killed and 51 wounded. -
Vertical integration
Involve Resources such as raw materials, fields, forests, and farms. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Labor leader who helped organize Pullman Strike; later became socialist leader and presidential candidate. Also became president of the American Railway Union. -
Horizontal Intergration
The horizontal intergration refers to the method used by John D. Rockefeller and other industrialists to gain control over their industries. It involved controlling one aspect of the production process. Rockefeller eventually controlled 90% of the nation's oil refining capacity. -
The American Dream
The American Dream was during the decades after the civil war. The gilded age was a time of growing prosperity for a newly middle class with urbanization. -
Social Darwinism
Progress was the result of relentless competition in which the strong survived and the weak died.Any effort of one class to help another, or different ethnic groups to interact, tampered with the natural order of things. -
Factory System
The factories built by the Union to defeat the Confederacy were not shut downat the war's end. -
Assembly Line
The assembly line is a manufacuring process that parts were added to a product. The assembly line also helped grow manufacturing industries in the late 1800's early 1900's. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation. This act was signed but President Theodore Roosevelt. This act was for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous food, drugs, medicines, and liqours.This act was assigneed to the Bureau of Chemistry in the U.S.Department of Agriculture. this was later renamed
