GML 16 Gilded Age

After 1877, the Democratic Party was mainly supported by:

1890 Act which was set up to discourage trusts/monoplies but which was initially used against unions

The Credit Mobilier scandal during the Grant Administration involved:

Patronage is:

1886 Chicago Labor protest where a bomb killed several police; used to smear all labor unions as violent and un-American

Idea that the govt. shouldn't interfere in business and that rich people were just better at thriving in the economy

Businessman who made a fortune in the oil industry during the Gilded Age and founded Standard Oil.

The term "The Gilded Age" to describe the period from 1870-1890, coined by Mark Twain, referred to:

Henry George's book calling for a single big tax on property to stop vast accumulations of wealth in only a few hands

Farmers wanted more U.S. currency to be put into circulation by backing it with gold AND silver in order to:

When a company owns all steps in the production of a product, from acquisition of resources to sale of finished products

1887 Act which broke up Indian Reservations into individual plots given to Indian families

Indian Religious movement of the late 1880s that promised the return of traditional ways of Indian life

Immigrant group that settled in large numbers (primarily males) on the west coast during this era and worked on the RRs

This food staple of the Plains Tribes was hunted almost to extinction by whites by the mid 1880s.

First national "walkout strike" in 1877 when workers across the nation left their jobs protesting pay cuts

First large labor union which allowed unskilled workers, blacks, and women (but not Asians) to be members.

Negative/Insulting name given to wealthy industrialists during the Gilded Age

Idea that to truly follow the teachings of Jesus, people should help the poor and make society fairer.

When people spend money not on essential items but on expensive luxuries to show how wealthy they are it is known as:

Name for when a business is the only one which controls manufacture of a good or service or access to a resource

___allowed for rapid settlement of the west and for goods and resources to be moved long distances relatively cheaply

When a company buys up all of its competitors

Massacre of mostly Indian women and children in 1890 by government troops in South Dakota during a Ghost Dance

One victory for the plains tribes came at the ____, where northern plains tribes wiped out Custer and his U.S. army men

Laurence Gronlund's book ______was the first to widely introduce Americans to the idea of Socialism.

Idea that people should be able to agree to any work terms, regardless of what they were; favored by late 1800 courts

One consequence of breaking Indian Reservations up into individual lots owned by individual Indians was:

Positive/Complimentary name given to wealthy industrialists during the Gilded Age

The first government body set up to regulate an entire industry (RRs) nationwide which had little power to begin with:

Railroads benefitted from which of the following from the Federal Government?

Mining in the west was gradually taken over by _______as it became necessary to dig deeper to find precious metals

1884 Court decision that the 14th and 15th amendments did not apply to Indians and that they were not citizens of the US

Name for when several supposedly rival businesses are managed by a single person

Farmers who grew one crop for sale on international markets were at risk of:

Huge farms in the west that employed workers for wages:

A political machine was:

Ed Bellamy's book which followed a man who awoke decades later in a world where people lived in a communal ideal society

The most famous political boss of the Gilded Age was_____, who operated out of New York.

Businessman who made a vast fortune in the steel industry during the Gilded Age and founded U.S. Steel

Act passed in 1883 which attempted to set a minimum standard of ability for government workers:

Monopolies often form when what business practice is taken to the extreme?

Court case that said N.Y. law establishing maximum hours per week of employment was unconstitutional

By 1913 the U.S. produced _______ of the world's industrial output

When immigrants outnumber native inhabitants of a region and impose their culture, government, etc., it is called:

The Gold Standard is the practice of only issuing paper dollars______