Gilded Age

Question 1

Credit Moblier

Answer 1

corrupt scandal by Railroad company and politicians to steal money and enrich selves. Damaged the reputations of Republicans and President Grant and weakened the economy of the country.

Question 2

Andrew Carnegie

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Steel - was once the richest man in America.

Question 3

John Rockefeller

Answer 3

Oil, horizontal integration

Question 4

corneliius vanderbilt

Answer 4

steamboats and railroads, vanderbilts know for building opulent palaces to show off wealth

Question 5

JP Morgan

Answer 5

banking

Question 6

George Pullman

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Railroad sleeper cars “Pullman Palace”. Built strictly controlled town for his workers; no drinking or hanging out allowed

Question 7

Mark Twain

Answer 7

Humorist and American literary genius, coined the Gilded Age to describe and satirize the era’s glittering exterior covering rotten filth.

Question 8

Jane Addams

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reformer founded Hull House, settlement houses in Chicago to help poor and urban immigrated women

Question 9

Ida B wells

Answer 9

born a slave, bravely became a journalist trying to raise awareness about the end lynching of African Americans during the Jim Crow era

Question 10

Boss Tweed

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his political machine in NYC controlled politics and stole money from the taxpayers to enriched himself and his cronies

Question 11

Jacob Riis

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photo journalist “Muckraker” reformer. Took photos of horrible city life conditions of the poor to try to get peoples attention to make change. Book was entitled “How the Other Half Lives.”

Question 12

Jim Crow

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• based on a minstrel act that mocked ignorant enslaved people, these were laws that made legal discrimination, segregation, and disenfranchisement of African Americans.

Question 13

George Armstrong Custer

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Cavalry commander who attacked the Sioux in 1876 South Dakota and got himself and all his men killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn/Greasy Grass.

Question 14

Horizontal Integration

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Illegal today, control all of one type of industry (monopoly). The federal government broke this up and with anti-trust laws because it hurt competition and consumers

Question 15

Vertical Integration

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attempt to control all aspects of your industry and production to maximize efficiency, cut costs, and increase profits.

Question 16

Push Factors

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why people left their home country

Question 17

Pull Factors

Answer 17

why people came to the United States

Question 18

Ellis Island

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NYC in east coast, many Europeans arrived in the east coast were processed and passed through here

Question 19

Angel Island

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in California, Asians coming here through the Pacific to the West Coast were processed and passed through this place

Question 20

Nativism

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overt favoritism toward native born white Americans. Led to demands for restrictions on immigration, and manifests as discrimination, prejudice, and hate of immigrants.

Question 21

Message described in “The Bosses of the Senate”

Answer 21

Cartoonist is trying to show how the senate is being controlled by the wealthy monopolists/trusts, while the people have to say

Question 22

Vanderbilt

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Steamboats and railroads, accumulated the largest fortune in the US. He cut shipping rates, making him gain the reputation of one of the Robber Barons

Question 23

JP Morgan

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Banking - leading financier, founded the banking company JP Morgan and CO. Loaned US govt’ $45 million in gold.

Question 24

John D Rockefeller

Answer 24

Oil, head of the Standard Oil CO. Used his money to fund many philanthropic causes. He used unethical methods and would therefore also be included in a list of Robber Barons.