DBQ: Gilded Age Flashback Flashcards
Soft money or hard money ?
Hard money (coins) have more value than paper money
Vanderbilt
Railroad
Carnegie
Steel
Jim Crow laws
Laws the segregated the blacks and whites
Knights of labor
Labor union that welcomed both skilled and unskilled workers
Silver or gold?
Gold has more value
Urbanization–>
Tenements, skyscrapers, department stores etc.
AF of L (American Federation of Labor)
Federation of craft labor & was led by Samuel Gompers
Fisk & Gould
Business partners who bid on the price of gold
Plessy vs Ferguson
Led to segregation in the South under the 14 Amendment
Louis Sullivan
Created the idea of skyscrapers
Social gospel
Church solves social problems
Morgan
Banker
Inventions
Trains, shampoo, telephone etc.
Credit Mobilier
Inflated prices to build railroad; scandal in Grants cabinet
Social Darwinism
Survival of the fittest
Political bosses
In turn for votes they provided jobs
Laissez faire
When government doesn’t mess with businesses
Rockefeller
Oil
Birds of passage
Immigrants who came to America (to work) and then left and went back to their country
Politics
Less presidential power, no major difference in political parties
Whiskey ring
Robbed treasury of million in tax on whiskey
Political machine
Boss Tweed
New what?
Art, literature, and a wider range of book genres (sensual, horror, realism etc.)
