Ch16 Terms Flashcards
Shipping entrepreneur
Cornelius vanderbilt
Court forbidding an action
Injunction
Steel entrepreneur
Andrew Carnegie
The philosophy advocates the collective or government ownership of the means of production.
Socialism
Developed the theory of natural selection.
Charles Darwin
Oil-refining entrepreneur
John D. Rockefeller
Midwestern free-silver party that became prominent in the 1890s
Populist party
Corrupt New York politician who controlled the Customs House.
Roscoe Cokling
Financial entrepreneur
John Pierpont Morgan
Reforming president who was assassinated
James A Garfield
The South’s tobacco entrepreneur
James Buchanan Duke
First Democratic president since the war;championed commerce reform.
Grover cleveland
The inventor of the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
He was a weak president;worked for monopoly reform.
Benjamin Harrison
America’s most prolific inventor.
Thomas Alva Edison
He built the Great Northern Railroad without any government money or special favors.
James T. hill
Labor union leader.
Samuel Gompers
He was the leader of the Knights of labor.
Terrence powderly
The most significant communication achievement during the Gilded Age.
Telephone
Radical leader of the Socialist party.
Eugene V. Debs
This tariff was made up of numerous amendments that made the tariff ineffective.
Mongrel Tariff
Laws and legislation passed in the south that required forced segregation.
Jim Crowe Laws
Reformed the civil service.
Chester A. Arthur
“The Great Commoner” and free-silver crusader.
William Jennings Bryan
Southerners hope to economically match the north built on the twin pillars of the two Ts-tobacco & textiles.
New South
The theory of evolution,based on the idea of survival of the fittest.
Darwinism
The earliest significant labor union.
Knights of Labor
Tariff imposed on higher duties on manufactured and agricultural imports than had any previous tariff in history.
Mckinley Tariff
Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens whose work reflected the literary school of realism.
Mark twain
Winner of the first modern presidential election campaign(1896)
William Mckinley
Financial collapse that occurred shortly after Cleveland’s inauquration.
Panic of 93
Why did Rockefeller choose to invest in oil refining rather than the other segments of industry?
Safe investment
When did the railroad union defied the injunction by the federal ports?
Pullman Strike
What was the main plank of the populist party platform?
Free Silver
What are the twin pillars of the New South ?
Tobacco and textiles
What was the first major trust that became the inspiration for many others?
Standard oil company
What event discredited the Knights of labor?
Haymarket Riot
Most prolific writer of gospel song and hymns?
Fanny Crosby
Why many Americans feared the “New Immigration”?
Religion being threatened,they would lower the standards of living causing crime and disease,they thought they would take their jobs.
3 causes of American industrial growth after the civil war?
Population was growing, so more workers, and more needs for things.Government pursued policies that encourage business empowerment, more inventive spirit, new source of power.
What severe depression hit America during Grover Cleveland’s second administration?
Panic of 93
What was a major cause of American industrial growth during the Gilded Age?
The population was growing.
What was the most significant goal of the Grange during the 1870’s?
State regulation of railroad
