Gilded Age pt 1,

Question 1

15th Amendment

Answer 1

“1, 5 voting rights”
Voting rights given to black men

Question 2

14th Amendment

Answer 2

“1, 4 citizenship for more”
Granted Citizenship

Question 3

13th Amendment

Answer 3

“1, 3 set em free”
Abolished Slavery

Question 4

Assimilate

Answer 4

• To take on the traits of the dominant culture till the assimilated group in socially indistinguishable from other members
  Ex: Indian Reservations

Question 5

Dawes Act

Answer 5

• Assimilation
• Failed
• 1887
• Authorized by Pres Grover Cleveland to break up reservations

Question 6

Patent (Art I, Sec. 8.8, Us Con)

Answer 6

An intellectual property right in regard to one ideas & creations

Question 7

The Wright Brothers

Answer 7

• invented the airplane 1903
• !st flight only lasted 12 seconds
• Started w a toy
• 4th flight was successful lasting 59 secs
• Used bicycles to experiment
• owned bicycle shop 1899-1903
• Us Govt first refused to buy plane

Question 8

Homestead Act

Answer 8

Provided 160 acres of land to anyone who agreed to farm it

Question 9

Klondike Gold Rush

Answer 9

• Mass exodus of prospecting migrants going to the Canadian Yukon territory and Alaska after gold was discovered
• 1896

Question 10

Free Enterprise

Answer 10

• Economic system in which priv business operates in competition & largely free of state control
  (work as you choose)

Question 11

Communism

Answer 11

• Final stage of socialism
• No one owns their own things
• Govt controls everything you do and own
  (North Korea, Cuba, China, etc)

Question 12

Corneilius Vanderbuilt

Answer 12

(1794 - 1877)
- one of the most successful entrepreneurs
- consolidated northeastern railroads 1860s
- began building Grand Central Station in NYC - Panic of 1873
- began railroad trend

Question 13

Thomas Edison

Answer 13

• 1876 pioneered “invention factory” (forerunner of the modern research lab)
• Invented Phonograph (1878)
• Invented Lightbulb (1879)
• Founded magnetic telegraph (1845)
  “ Thomas Alva Edison”

Question 14

Gilded Age

Answer 14

Characteristics:
- 1870 -> 1900
- Economy: Ag -> indust
- Society: Rural -> Urban
- Govt : Small Laissez Faire -> Big Regulatory

Question 15

Samuel Morse

Answer 15

• invented the telegraph in 1844
• patented the telegraph at 49 (1840)
• portrit artist from Massachusetts
• telegraph = distance writing

Question 16

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 16

• invented the telephone in 1876
• very interested in sound and speech
• father helped teach deaf and mutes to speak, bell continued this (visible speech system)

Question 17

Gross Domestic Product (GPD)

Answer 17

total value of goods produced & services provided in a country in one year

Question 18

Adam Smith

Answer 18

• scottish philosopher
• father of modern economics
  1776 “wealth of nations”

Question 19

Socialism

Answer 19

Economic system based on govt ownership of production, transportation, and communication

Question 20

Art & Literature

Answer 20

Mark Twain - Made the term “the Guilded Age” wrote abt mining camp

Owen Wisler - Write the 1st cowboy novel called “the Virginian”

Fredick Remmington - Artist, created sculptures

Charles Russel - Artist

Willa Cather - “O Pioneers”

Question 21

Robber Barons

Answer 21

A derogatory term of social criticism towards certain wealthy and powerful 19th century American Business men

Question 22

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 22

Pres. Abe Lincoln signed the 1st Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864

Question 23

Entrepreneur

Answer 23

A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so
(being their own boss)

Question 24

Monopoly (AKA Trust)

Answer 24

Exclusive control of goods and services

Question 25

Social Darwinism

Answer 25

Created by Herbert Spencer
- changed Darwins “natural selection” to “survival of the fitests” In regards to entrepreneurs being natures “fittest”

Question 26

Interstate Commerce Act

Answer 26

The 1st federal law regulating business
- railroads