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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adams Henry | American historian, and author known for his book The Education of Henry Adams in which he critiqued 19th-century society. |
| Akerman, Amos T. | US attorney General under Ulysses S Grant who prosecuted the KKK to protect Black voters in the South during Reconstruction. |
| Alger Horatio | Author famous for his rags-to-riches novel which popularized the myth that anyone could achieve the American Dream with hardwork and honesty |
| Ames Adelbert | Union General who then served as a Reconstruction-era military governor and US senator, he fought for civil rights of freedom slaves. |
| Ames Oakes | Railroad and industrial businessman. His company supplied railroad equipment . He was also part of a credit mobile scandal (corruption). |
| Arthur Chester A. | 21st President of the US who took office after the assassination of James A Garfield and championed civil service reform through the Pendleton Act. |
| Bell Alexander Graham | An inventor, scientist, and engineer credited with creating the first practical telephone in 1876. |
| Bellamy Francis | A minister and author who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892 |
| Blaine James G. | Republican politician who served as Speaker of the House, Secretary of state and presidential candidate leading the Half Breed faction of the party. |
| Bly Nellie | A pioneer journalist who went undercover in a mental asylum to expose abuse "Ten Days in a Mad-House" he also traveled the world in 72 days. |
| Borden Lizzie | Famous for the 1882 murders of her father and stepmother. |
| Brady James Buchanan | AKA as Diamond Jim Brady. A wealthy Business man and social figure who's lifestyle represented wealth and excess. |
| Bradley Aaron Alpeoria | A radical African American lawyer and activist who fought for land redistribution and black suffrage during the Reconstruction era. |
| Brady William Jennings | A democratic politician who criticize railroad monopolies, trusts, and the power of wealthy businesses. |
| Carnegie Andrew | A steel magnate who led the massive expansion of the American steel industry and later became a leading philanthropist, funding thousands of public libraries. |
| Catto Octavius | An educator and civil rights activist who fought for equal rights and desegregation in Philadelphia, was assassinated on Election day in 1871. |
| Cleveland Grover | President for two nonconsecutive terms who supported limited government and civil service reform and opposed excessive government subsides to businesses. |
| Cody William | Created buffalos Bills Wild West show helping the popularization of the American West. |
| Colfax Schuyler | VP under Ulysses Grant who was implicated in the Credit Mobilier Scandal and resigned after his role became known. |
| Conkling Rosecoe | Powerful Republican leader of the stalwarts. Supported the political patronage system and opposed civil-service reform. |
| Cornwell Russell | A minister and orator famous for Acres of Diamonds speech in which he argued that wealth could be found in ones own community and that people should get rich honestly. |
| Cooke Jay | A financier who helped fund the Union war effort during the Civil War, but whose baking firm's collapse in 1873 triggered a nationwide financial panic. |
| Crocker Richard | Railroad entrepreneur and one of the Big Four who built the central pacific railroad, helping connect the nation by rail. |
| Debs Eugene | A labor leader who founded the American Railway Union, and led the Pullman Strike of 1894 and ran for US president 5 times as a socialist. |
| Dodge Grace Hoadley | A philanthropist who supported education and social welfare particularly opportunities for working class women and girls. |
| Dodge Grenville | A Union Army officer who served as the chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad, overseeing the eastern construction of the Transcontinental railroad. |
| Douglass Frederick | An orator, author, and statesman who escaped slavery to become a leader of the abolitionist movement and an advocate for equal rights. |
| Edison Thomas | America's greatest inventor who developed the light bulb, the phonograph, picture cameras, and research labs. |
| Field Marshall | A department store mogul who founded Marshal Field & Co. in Chicago, pioneering modern retail concepts like unconditional refunds. |
| Fisk James | A Wall Street financier who along with Jay Gould tried the US gold market in 1869 causing the Black Friday financial panic. |
| Frick Henry Clay | An industrialist and steel executive known for being anti-union and his violent 1892 Homestead Strike. |
| Gates John W. | A pioneer of the barbed wire who became a financier and gambler AKA bet-a-million gates. |
| George Henry | A political economist and reformer whose book Progress and Poverty advocated for a single take on land values to combat economic inequality. |
| Glidden Joseph | Inventor who created the first Barbed wire in 1874. |
| Godkin E. L. | Journalist who founded The Nation magazine and advocated for civil service reform and laissez faire economics |
| Gompers Samuel | Labor Union leader who founded the American Federation of Labor who wanted higher wages, shorter hours, and safer working conditions. |
| Gould Jay | A railroad executive and speculator who became the most known and wealthy Robber barons of the gilded age. |
| Grant Ulysses | President from 1869-1877. Pursued reconstruction but was damaged by major corruption scandals. |
| Green Hetty | A financier known as the Witch of Wall Street celebrated as the richest woman in America because of her eccentric frugality and investment savvy. |
| Hanna Mark | Republican businessman and political organizer who helped modernize political campaigning and fundraising and strongly supported business interest. |
| Harlan John Marshall | Supreme Court justice known as the Great Dissenter. He opposed decisions that weakened civil rights and was a strong supported of equal protection under the law. |
| Harris Mary | AKA Mother Jones was a labor organizer and community activist who co-founded the IWW and championed miners' and children's rights. |
| Harrison Benjamin | President from 1889-1893 Signed the Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 and supported protective tariffs. |
| Harvey William | An author and monetary reformer who wrote Coin's Financial school, a popular booklet in 1894 that advocated for free coinage of silver. |
| Hayes Rutherford B. | President from 1877-1881. Ended federal military involvement in reconstruction marking the beginning of the post reconstruction era. |
| Hill James J. | A railroad executive known as the Empire Builder who created and managed the highly successful Great Northern Railway. |
| Huntington Collis P. | One of the Big Four railroad barons who financed and built the Central Pacific Railroad, completing the western link of the Transcontinental Railroad. |
| Ingersoll Robert G. | A lawyer and orator known as The Great Agnostic famous for his public lectures defending free thought, science, and humanism. |
| Johnson Andrew | President from 1865-1869 just before the main Gilded Age his lenient reconstruction policies contributed to conflicts over reconstruction and the rights of formerly enslaved people. |
| Jodah Theodore | A civil engineer who surveyed and planned and advocated for the creation of the first Transcontinental railroad. |
| Kearney Denis | A California labor leader known for his aggressive anti-chinese rhetoric, and ending his phrases with "and the Chinese must go". |
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