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Milligan Unit One
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mining | This industry found in the mountains of the western United States, helped to create many western cities that are still thriving today. |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | The Industrial Capitalist made his fortune in the Railroad Industry and Shipping business. |
| George Westinghouse | This inventor was known for alternating current for electricity and competing with Edison in the production of electrical power plants |
| Andrew Carnegie | This Industrial Capitalist created an industrial giant with U.S. Steel and was known for becoming a great philanthropist. |
| George Pullman | He invented the railroad sleeper car and he created a company town for his employees that produced his products. |
| Alexander Graham Bell | He invented the telephone in 1876 which would lead to a communication miracle in the near future. |
| Thomas Edison | He created the first lab for the purpose of producing inventions. He would get credit for over 1,000 patents in his life time. |
| John Rockefeller | He created a monopoly with his company known as Standard Oil. He used horizontal integration to monopolize the kerosene and oil industries. |
| food processing | Swift and Armour were business partners that used refrigerated box cars and new methods of production to dominate this industry in the late 1800s. |
| incomes | During the Gilded Age, the greatest difference between an industrialist and a farmer would have been their ___________. |
| US Grant | This President's administration was plagued by political scandals such as the Credit Mobilier, Black Friday and Whiskey Ring scandals. |
| Boss Tweed | Thomas Nast used his drawings and newspaper articles to expose this corrupt, powerful, political leader of New York City. |
| Pendleton Act | Congress reacted to the assassination of President Garfield by passing this law to require Civil Service Exams for potential Federal employees. |
| farmers | This group of Americans were helped the most by the passage of Granger laws by the U.S. Congress. |
| Interstate Commerce Act | This law was passed by Congress in 1887, gave Congress jurisdiction over all goods that were shipped across state lines. |
| monopolies | One of the greatest controversies of the Gilded Age was the creation of ____ by Industrialists like Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller and JP Morgan. |
| Nativism | This political and social movement was formed to slow down or even stop immigration to America. They blamed immigrants for social problems. |
| Booker T Washington | This early Civil Rights leader promoted steady, slow growth by proving one's economic value to society by displaying great job skills. |
| Dawes Act | This law was passed to assimilate Native Americans by teaching them English and placing them on small family sized farms on reservations. |
| Andrew Carnegie | In the Gospel of Wealth, this famous Industrialist promoted donating money to a community only if it were given to benefit the community for many years to come. |
| Robber Barons | Industrial Capitalists were given this nick-name because of their incredible wealth and their excessive power and prestige within the U.S. society. |
| Jane Addams | She created Settlement Houses to help poor Immigrants and their children adapt to the harsh conditions of inner city America in the late 1800s. |
| labor unions | These organizations were first formed in the late 1800s to get safer conditions, better pay, and shorter hours for workers across America. |
| light bulb | This Thomas Edison invention tremendously changed the life of Americans, that lived in cities in the late 1800s, |
| Tammany Hall | This site was the headquarters of Boss Tweed and his circle of corrupt political leaders that controlled New York City during the Gilded Age. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | This project finally ended in Utah in 1869, it linked the East Coast to the West Coast and hired thousands of Immigrant workers from Ireland and China. |
| graft | This has taken place if corrupt political leaders have used the power of their office for personal gain, such as illegal bribes and kick-backs. |
| steel | Henry Bessemer's invention with this product led to a great expansion of the railroad industry, and the building of skyscrapers and bridges. |
| Jacob Riis | This social reformer used his pictures and books to shame America into changing the horrible living conditions that existed in America's cities. |
| factory jobs | These opportunities drew immigrants from all over the world, farmers from the Great Plains and farmers from the South to the Northeast section of the U.S.. |
| New Immigrants | These Immigrants had a more difficult adjusting to American society because they were not from Western Europe and did not speak English. |
| Old Immigrants | These Immigrants from Western Europe, assimilated more easily to American society because of their language and similar values. |
| Jim Crow | Many Southern states passed _______ Laws, to ensure segregation of the races and to limit the ability of African Americans to gain social power. |
| Exodusters | Pap Singleton was a former slave and Tennessean that led former slaves from the South to purchase farm land in the states of the Great Plains. |
| Cross of Gold | William J. Bryan gave his famous _______ Speech, with the hopes of getting Congress to move to a policy of bimetallism by adding silver. |
| Populism | William J. Bryan, Farmers and Grangers were supporters of this political movement that wanted to give more political power to the common people in America. |
| Union troops | In the "Compromise of 1877" Rep. Rutherford B. Hayes promised to remove ______ from the South, ending Reconstruction, if were named President. |
| Garfield | The President's assassination has a direct link to the passage of the Pendleton Act and the creation of Civil Service Exams. |
| WEB Dubois | This early Civil Rights leader promoted equality through higher education and running for political office. |
| Samuel Gompers | He was the first leader of the American Federation of Labor, promoted collective bargaining and used strikes as a tactic. |
| Eugene Debs | He was an Union leader that believed in Socialism, he was arrested for his role in the Homestead strike and he ran for President as a socialist 3 times. |
| Thomas Nast | A great political cartoonist and muckraker that gets the credit for bringing down Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall with his cartoons. |
| Coal Creek War | Coal Miners strike in Anderson County, Tennessee. State prisoners replaced striking miners. A state was passed to STOP the work release program for prisoners. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | This was the law passed to ban Chinese immigration to America. |
| Gentlemen's Agreement | A compromise that allowed Japanese students to attend San Francisco public schools and Japan agreed to greatly limit Japanese immigration to the U.S. |
| Chicago | In the late 1800s this midwestern city became known for Meatpacking and food processing. |
| Nikola Tesla | A genius inventor, he perfected AC electricity and the way for the first electrical power plants. |
| Pittsburgh | This northeastern city was Andrew Carnegie's choice for the home of his Steel Plant, which allowed this city to become America's steel producing giant |
| Factory | Many Western European Immigrants settled in New York City and Boston due to the many jobs in shipping and _________________ jobs. |
| Madame C.J. Walker | Female African American Entrepreneur. self-made millionaire, Beauty Products for Women / Civil Rights Leader / Movement to stop Lynchings |
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