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Gilded Age Unit 1
Lessons 1,2,3 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Industrialization | The act of building up industries. |
| Gilded | Covered with a thin layer of gold or a gold-colored paint. |
| Graft | Use of one’s job to gain profit; a major source of income for political machines |
| Corruption | Bribery or other dishonest dealings |
| Laissez faire | Doctrine stating that government generally should not interfere in private business. |
| Political machine | an unofficial city organization designed to keep a particular party or group in power and usually headed by a single, powerful boss. |
| Robber barons | wealthy industrialists who profited while the poor suffered |
| Urbanization | The act of imparting more characteristics of city life |
| New immigration | Immigrants are people moving into a country from another country. During the Gilded Age there were many new immigrants coming to the U.S. |
| Child labor | Children working long hours for low wages in often dangerous jobs |
| Social Issues | matters which directly or indirectly affect many or all members of a society and are considered to be problems, controversies related to moral values, or both. |
| Political Issues | social, economic, theological, spiritual, medical or legal issues which have gone through a process of becoming political |
| Patronage | the power to distribute government jobs on a basis other than merit alone. |
| Spoils System | the practice of distributing public offices and their privileges as plunder to members of the victorious political party. |
| Civil Service | The government’s nonelected workers; the administrative service of a government. |
| Jim Crow | Statutes, beginning in the 1890s, that required segregation of public services by race. ( |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Law passed in 1882 that prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country, but did not prevent entry of those who had previously established U.S. residence |
| Gospel of Wealth | Andrew Carnegie’s message that people should be free to make as much money as they can; however, after they make it they should give it away. |
| Assimilation | Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture. |
| Tenements | A low-cost apartment building that often has poor standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort, and is designed to house as many families as possible. |
| Lynching | Murder of an accused person by a mob without a lawful trial. |
| Hull House | A settlement house founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889. |
| Social Darwinism | Derived from Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the belief that society should do as little as possible to interfere with people’s pursuit of success. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | 1895 Supreme Court decision that segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities provided for blacks were equal to those provided to white. |
| Jane Addams | A founder of Hull House; involved in reform movements of the Progressive Era. |
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