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09 Heritage Studies5
The Gilded Age
Term | Definition |
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Alexander Graham Bell | person who was first to patent the telephone |
Andrew Carnegie | person who was America’s most important manufacturer of steel |
capitalism | an economic system in which the people own the country’s goods and businesses |
corporation | a business that is owned by many people; investors or stockholders |
social Darwinism | the idea that only the fittest people can survive in society |
the Gilded Age | name for the time of prosperity in the United States during the 1800s |
Thomas Edison | person who experimented with the light bulb and invented the phonograph |
labor union | organized group of workers that unite to go on strike to force their employers to make changes |
philanthropist | person who gives large sums of money to help public causes |
John D. Rockefeller | person who led America’s oil industry |
Christopher Sholes | inventor of the typewriter that first used the QWERTY keyboard |
trust | combination of several smaller companies into one gigantic corporation |
Herbert Spencer | evolutionist who promoted the idea that only the fittest survive in society |
During the Gilded Age | American cities grew because people from rural areas moved to the cities |
Sherman Antitrust Act | sought to limit the power a corporation could have |
Popular cities where many immigrants settled | Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco |
B. B. Warfield | wrote articles encouraging Christians to take the Bible at its word |
realism in works of literature during the Gilded Age | life was portrayed just as it was |
Jane Addams’s Hull-House | offered immigrant women childcare and medical care |
James J. Hill | built the Great Northern Railway and later bought several other lines, earning him the nickname “Empire Builder” |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | first person to make millions in the transportation industry |
problems that resulted from the growth of cities in America | Cities were more crowded and harder to keep clean. Providing housing for everyone was difficult. Many children from poor families worked to help support their families. |