Chapter 20- Life in the "Gilded Age" Flashcards
Central pacific
Encouraged chinese to migrate
Mark twain
Called age of industry “Gilded Age”
Reasons the great Chicago fire was a blessing in disguise
- Ravished cities
2. Eliminated problems
Hull house
Improved neighbored life
Addams
Founded hull house
Most widely used transportation in 19th century
Electric trolley car
“Father of modern skyscraper”
Sullivan
New immigration
Immigration from different parts of the world
Worlds Colombian exposition
Worlds fair
First successful national labor union
A.F. of L
Pullman strike of 1894
Most important strike of 19th century
Middle class
Became american ideal
Wanamaker’s
First modern department store
Wyoming
First state to grant women’s right to vote
Leaders of women’s rights movement
- Stanton
2. Anthony
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
First written script to go to a printer
Naismith
Inventor of basketball
Cincinnati red stockings
First professional baseball team
“Gay nineties”
Name given to 1890’s
Greatest craze of 1890’s
Bicycling
Ward
Opened first mail-order business
Chain stores
Series of stores owned by same company
A & P
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Field
“Give the lady what she wants”
Sholes
Invented typewriter
Moody
Best know urban evangelist
Organization founded by booth
Salvation Army
Jackson
Best known home missionaries
Mount Hermon
“evangelize the world in this generation”
YWCA
Young Women’s Christian Association
Chapman
“Greatest evangelist in the country”
Bellamy
Wrote “pledge of allegiance”
Morrill act
Granted each state land for colleges
Chautauqua movement
Training session for sunday school teachers
Pulitzer
First publisher to reach large audience
Stanley
Said “dr. livingstone, I presume?”
Harris
Wrote “uncle remus tales”
Pros of labor unions
- Better wages
- Shorter hours
- Six day work week
- Elimination of child labor
Cons of labor unions
- Strikes
- Violence
- Riots
- Destruction of property
Sheldon
Wrote “in his steps”
Torrey
First president of Moody’s institute
Montgomery ward
First mail order catalog