Gilded Age Key individuals Flashcards
Who began the term ‘Gilded Age’, after writing it as the title of his book in 1873
Mark Twain
Who were the authors of ‘Gilded Age’
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
Who wrote the book ‘The American Commonwealth’ heavily criticising the politics of the period
Englishman, James Bryce
Who was the editor of the Mugwump journal The Nation who despised modern politics
Edwin L Godkin
Name the two twentieth century historians who had a cynical view of politics in the gilded age
Ray Ginger and Richard Hofstadter
Name two senators who dominated politics by their control of the new york custom house
Thurlow Weed and Roscoe Conkling
What were the names of the two metal importers in 1874 who had a company and paid a bribe of 50,000 dollars to roscoe conkling
Anson Greene Phelps and William Earle Dodge
Name the two main 1960s revisionist historians who argued that the gilded age has many positive features and the presidents were good
Irwin Unger and H.Wayne
Who was the president 1877-81
Rutherford B Hayes
Who led the Stalwarts
Roscoe Conkling
Who was appointed Secretary of the Interior in 1877 by Hayes
Carl Schurz
Who was Hayes secretary of state
William M Evarts
Who was the Collector of the Port of New York who supported the spoils system
Chester A Arthur
Who was the democratic nominee that Garfield defeated by a margin of only 10000 popular votes in 1880
General Winfield Scott Hancock
Who was president in 1881
James Garfield
Who was one of the ringleaders of the star routes that Garfield forced the resignation of
Thomas J Brady- indicted for conspiracy in 1883
Who was the unsuccessful lawyer and insurance salesman who believed Garfield owed him a patronage position in the diplomatic corps and that the president’s political decisions threatened to destroy the R party/
Guiteau
Who was president 1881-84
Chester Arthur
Who was the first democrat elected after the civil war who left and returned for a second term four years later
Grover Cleveland
Who was Grover Cleveland’s R candidate opponenent
James G Blaine
Who was a leading exponent of Social Darwinism
English journalist Hebert Spencer
Who was the robber baron for the railroads
Cornelius Vanderbilt
What was the name of Vanderbilt’s son
William
Who was the robber baron for steel
Andrew Carnegie
In 1990, who did Carnegie sell his steel empire to for $480 mn
JP Morgan
Who published The Gispel Of Wealth in 1889 for philanthropy
Carnegie
Which robber baron was linked to the oil industry
John D Rockefeller
Which robber baron was linked to finance
JP Morgan
Name the two main inventors of the period
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell
Who did the Wabash Railroad in the Southwest system belong to
Jay Gould
Who set up the American Federation of Labor in 1885
Samuel Gompers
Who did the Santa Fe appoint who in 1875 visited russia to promote immigration
C B Schmidt
The assassination of who in 1881 set off anti semitic riots in the south and west
Alexander II
Under which president did the statue of liberty unveil before being a gift from france
Cleveland on 28 oct 1886
Which banker was excluded from the grand union hotel in new york in 1877
Jewish banker, Joseph Seligman
Who set up the American Protective Association in Iowa in 1887
The lawyer, Henry F Bowers
Who was the black newspaperwoman in Memphis who attacked the lynching fever in 1892 in a black newspaper, defending black males against a rape charge and exposed the lawlessness of lynching. She then was run out of town for her article and a mob destroyed the newspapers office?
Ida B wells
Who was the senator of New Hampshire in 1882 who introduced an education bill to provided millions of dollars to southern black and white schools
Senator Henry W. Blair of New Hampshire
Who was the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 named after?
The senator, Henry Dawes of Massachusetts
Who produced the first effective barbed wire in 1873, making it possible to fence land cheaply?
Joseph Glidden
Who was the populist presidential candidate who won a million votes in 1892?
James B. Weaver
Who in 1867 devised a route whereby cattle could be driven north from southern texas to abilene in kansas along the chishom trail to the west of any settlement
Joseph McCoy
Who in 1868 established a meatpacking business in chicago
Philip D Armour
Which 2 individuals followed Philip Armour in meatpacking businesses
Gustavus Swift and Nelson Morris
Who was a portion of the Chisholm Trail marked by
Jesse Chisholm
Which young historian in 1893 presented a conference paper entitled The Significance of the Frontier in American History- ‘The Turner Thesis’?
Frederick Jackson Turner
Name 3 historians who criticised Turner and his thesis
Professor George Wilson Pierson, Ray Allen Billington, Glenda Riley
Who was the Secretary of Navy in 1882
William H Hunt, who was advocating naval expansion after a review he commissioned found that of 140 ships only 42 were operational
Who described the ships as ‘an alphabet of floating tubs’
John D Long of Massachusetts
Name the advocate of naval expansion who wrote two hugely influential books, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History in 1890 and The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire two years later?
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan
Who negotiated the formation of the 1875 treaty of friendship with Hawaii
Secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard
Who was President Garfield’s secretary of state, who advocated firstly a Pan-American conference in 1881, and who was Garfield’s secretary of state?
James Blaine
Who was the president 1884-1888
Grover Cleveland
Who was the president 1888-1892
Benjamin Harrison
Who was president 1893-97
Cleveland
Who was Hayes VP?
William Wheeler
Who was Hayes Defeated candidate in 1876
Samuel Tilden, Governor of New York
Who was Garfield’s VP
Chester Arthur
Who was Garfield’s defeated candidate
Winfield Hancock
Who was Cleveland’s VP in 1884
Schuyler Colfax
Who was Cleveland’s defeated candidate in 1884
James Blaine
Who was Harrison’s VP
Henry Wilson
Who was Harrison’s defeated candidate
Glover Cleveland
Who was Cleveland’s VP in 1892
Adlai Stevenson
Who was Cleveland’s defeated candidate in 1892
Benjamin Harrison
Who was the leader of the half breeds
James Blaine
Who did James Garfield accept as his running mate who was a stalwart supporter
Chester Arthur
Who assassinated James Garfield, claiming to be acting on behalf of the stalwarts
Charles Guiteau
Name two radical womens leaders
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony
Who was the head of the Tuskegee Institute from 1881-1915
Booker T Washington
Who pushed forward important technological developments like the phonography in 1877 and the motion film camera in 1888
Thomas Edison
Who owned Standard Oil
Rockefeller
Who owned US Steel
Carnegie
Who expanded smaller railroads in Minnesota into a huge railroad empire across the Northwest
James J Hill
Who were the 2 financiers of the Erie Railroad
Jay Gould and Jim Fisk
Who was the financier of the St Paul and Pacific railroad
James J Hill
Who owned the New York Central and Hudson River railroad
Vanderbilt
Who invented the Bessemer process, which steelmakers shifted to in the 1880s to enable mass production of good quality steel
Henry Bessemer
Who constructed his first steelworks at Braddock in Pennsylvania in the mid 1870s?
Carnegie
Who helped the General Electric to become a giant monopoly in April 1892
Samuel Insull, a young English immigrant
Which 2 people continued to reform the Bureau of Indian Affairs to root out corruption from 1877
President Hates and his Secretary of the Interior, Carl Schurz
Who was the leader of the Nez Perce tribe during the Nez Perce war?
Chief Joseph
Who was Chief Joseph forced to surrender to
the US Army General, general miles
What gilded age event was sitting bull involved in
Buffalo’s wild west show
what gilded age event was chief joseph involved in
Nez Perce War
Which gilded age native a event was geronimo involved in
Geronimo’s war
Which gilded age native a events was general nelson miles involved in
nez perce war, geronimos war, ghost dance rebellion
Who was responsible for indian affairs from 1877
Carl Schurz
Who was the leader of the Knights of Labor who campaigned for an 8 hour day and other restrictions on employers
Terrence Powderly
Who wrote The Gilded Age book
Mark Twain
He wrote Progress and Poverty in 1879
Henry George
Who wrote the article in 1887 entitled The Limits of Laissez Faire
Henry Carter Adams
Who were the two main satirists and cartoonists
Thomas Nast and Thomas Keppler
