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Gilded Age
Key terms on teh Gilded Age of US History
| Definiton | Term |
|---|---|
| The Second Industrial Revolution | The Technical Revolution |
| Sometimes called Captains of Industry, these people built large corporations and wealth | Robber Barons |
| This concpet kept politcal power concentrated in the hands of the few | Machine Politics |
| Time period from 1870 to the late 1890's in US History | Gilded Age |
| This person coined the term, "The Gilded Age" | Mark Twain |
| People who come to live in a new country permanently | Immigrants |
| People who invest in business with the intent to make money | Financiers |
| Groups of workers who organize to improve upon their working conditions | Labor Unions |
| Head of the AFL | Samuel Gompers |
| The banning of alcohol in society | Prohibition |
| The right to vote | Suffrage |
| The system in which goods and services are created and consumed | Economy |
| The process of studying factories to improve production | Scientific Management |
| A world-wide Depression in the late 1800's | Panic of 1873 |
| The use of technology to improve methods of production and lifestyle | Industrialization |
| The attempt to "unionize" farmers and improve upon their life | Grange Movement |
| Colleges and Univ created to help improve agriculture | Land Grant Colleges |
| Concept which advocated power of the common people over the upper class | Populist Movement |
| Cost of goods and services is artificially increased | Inflation |
| Amount of money in circulation is directly linked to value of gold a government has on hand | Gold Standard |
| Bridges, roads, sewer lines, water and gass lines | Infrastructure |
| Helped discover Alternating Current, which enabled the electrification of the world | Nikola Tesla |
| Standard Oil Founder | J P Morgan |
| Founder of Carnegie Steel, later became a philanthropist | Andrew Carnegie |
| Invented air brakes for trains | George Westinghouse |
| Railroad the connected the Eastern US to the Western US | Transcontinental Railroad |
| He invented Scientific Management | Frederick Taylor |
| Supreme Court case which prohibited the limiting of workers hours daily and weekly | Lochner v New York |
| The shift of population into cities | Urbanization |
| Transportation systems designed to move large amounts of people around an area | Mass Transit |
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