Question | Answer |
Westward Expansion | Manifest Destiny, Railroad Growth - Industrialism |
Pendleton Act | After Garfields Assassination begins Civil Service Commission tries to end Spoils System |
Robber Barron | People accused of swindling investors/ tax payers- bribing government officials & cheating on their contracts & debts |
Populism | Movement to increase farmers political power |
Social Darwinism | Herbert Spencer theory of evolution to human society |
Homestead Act | $10 registration, and individual could file to own land up to 160 acres must live on it and work it for 5 years |
Realism | attempted to portray people realistically In art & literature |
Political Machine | An informal political group designed to gain & keep power |
Party Boss | Person who ran the political machine |
Graft | Getting money through dishonest fraud- political machines & party bosses - grew rich through graft |
Tammany Hall | A New York political machine |
Tenements | Crowded multi-family apartments |
Nativism | The preference for native-born |
Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 law barred Chinese Immigrants |
Angel Island | Like Ellis Island but for Asian or Pacific citizens |
AFL | American Federation of Labor. 1st leader Samuel Gompus. |
Open/Closed Shop | Open- Companies do not require union membership
Closed- Companies only have union members. |
Blacklist | A list of trouble makers |
Hay market Riot | Wanted 8 hr. day. Strikes took place in many cities |
Pullman Strike | economic hard times called eh Pullman train company to slash wages |
Knights of Labor | New labor organization |
Lockout | To stop workers from joining a union |
Arbitration | Impartial 3rd party helps workers and management reach agreement |
Holding Company | Instead produce items, it owns stocks of those companies |
Time Zones | 4 regions where time is the same |
Vertical Integration | Owns all of the different components that an industry needs. |
Horizontal Integration | Combining several companies engaged in same businesses |
Saloon | Served as early political centers |
Poll Tax | to vote you had to play $2.00 |
Assimilate | to make people be American |
Credit Mobilizer Scandal | it was a construction company that signed contracts with selves |
Laissez Faire | economic policy of govt. not interfering |
Entrepreneurs | people who risk their capital |
Atlanta Compromise | Booker T Washington- where he asked black to focus on education |
A. Graham Bell | invented phone for communication |
Thomas Edison | light bulb- menlo park lab |
Jack Riis | muckraker- abject poverty- wrote "how other 1/2 lives" |
Herbert Spencer | social darwinism- "on the origin of species by means of Natural Selection" |
Jane Adams | hull house- a settlement house |
Mark Twain | said "Gilded Age" |