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Gilded Age
Key terms on teh Gilded Age of US History
Definiton | Term |
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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 |