Gilded Age - Sheet1 Flashcards
The people take an elected official out of office
Recall
A strike coming from the railroad industry. Railroad workers walked off on the job to protest a 50% wage decrease
Pullman Strike
Companies must accurately label ingredients in processed food items
Pure Food and Drug Act
Created the Incandescent lightbulb and the phonograph
Thomas Edison
The date that the 19th amendment (women’s suffrage) was passed
8/26/1920
Place immigrants went through on West Coast to become U.S. citizens. More exclusive than Ellis Island
Angel Island
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul
Leaders of Women’s Suffrage
First major anti-trust court case. Roosevelt v. Morgan, Roosevelt won
Northern Securities Co. V. United States
Created political cartoons. His work led to Boss Tweed being convicted of embezzlement
Thomas Nast
1890-1920
When did the Progressive Era last?
Professional city manager hired to run each department and report directly to the city council
City Manager Plan
Created the airplane
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Someone through a bomb into the crowd at a meeting for laborers. A German was blamed and chaos ensued
Haymarket Riot
Belief that one’s native country and culture is superior to others
Nativism
No competition, one person controls the entire market, can charge whatever they want, can pay workers whatever they want
Cons of Monopolies
California, Wyoming, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Kansas, Arizona, Nevada, Montana, Arkansas, Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma
States that Passed Suffrage rights before the 19th amendment
Owning every stage of production
Vertical integration
Inhaling coal, leather strap around hips made young girls die in childbirth, baskets on head caused bald spots. Children from the age of 5 and up had to work for 12 hours in the dark, surrounded by rats. If they fell asleep, the miners beat them up.
Problems in the mines
Illegally transporting alcohol
Bootlegging
Created the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Experts ran different fields of the city
City Commissioner Plan
Direct election of Senators
17th Amendment
Outlawed creation of monopolies, unions are protected
Clayton Antitrust Act
Robber baron/captain of industry, excelled in the oil industry with the help of horizontal integration
John D. Rockefeller
Lots of money to give to charity, push technology for better products, provide lots of jobs, and can keep prices low
Pros of Monopolies
The date the Women’s Suffrage Amendment was originally proposed to Congress
1878
Citizens force a legislature to vote on an law
Initiative
Robber baron/captain of industry, excelled in the steel industry with the help of vertical integration
Andrew Carnegie
Wrote The Octopus which exposed monopolistic railroad practices in California.
Frank Norris
Place immigrants went through on East Coast to become U.S. citizens
Ellis Island
Jeanette Rankin
First female elected to the House of Representatives
Robber baron of the railroads
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Model T Ford, Assembly Line
Henry Ford
Members of the press that investigated corruption in order to expose problems to the American people.
Muchrackers
Created 12 district Federal Reserve Banks
Federal Reserve Act
Americans could vote in secret without anyone knowing how they voted
Secret ballot
Alcohol is prohibited to be bought, sold, or transported
18th Amendment
Good education, safe work environment, efficient workplace, and chance to be politically active
Goals of Progressives
Meat processing plants must be inspected
Meat Inspection Act
A fire that happened in a sweatshop where women were trapped inside. 114 workers were killed
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
A party that believed immigrants had to stay in the country for 21 years becoming a citizen, wanted to ban Catholics, and have no foreigners in public office
No-Nothing Party
Political, economic, working/living conditions, temperance, and women’s suffrage
Major reforms of the Progressive Era
Markets expand, natural resources, and labor
Characteristics needed for an industrial revolution
The people vote on a law
Referendum
Investigated unfair business practices
Federal Trade Act
Exposed lynching in the South with her book: Southern Horrors. Lynch Law in All Its Phases. Joined forces with NAACP to fight for federal anti-lynching laws
Ida B. Wells
Now the Senators are elected by the people, not the state legislature
Direct election of Senators
U.S. President known for being a “trust-buster”
Theodore Roosevelt
Children workers, lost fingers and limbs in factory equipment.
Problems in the Factories
Check ship for disease, check people for disease, mental testing, legal inspection, possible name change, and liable to become a public charge
Steps of Ellis Island Process
Outlawed rebates
Elkins Act
Secret bar that existed during prohibition
Speakeasies
Jobs, escape persecution, cheaper to get there, civil wars/conflicts
Reasons why Immigrants came to America
The rights of a citizen shall not be denied on account of sex
19th Amendment
Maximum railroad rates
Hepburn Act
Crowded, poor sanitation, disease, poverty, crime
Problems in cities
Happened in 1848. First gathering of women’s suffrage movement where demands were created. Did not want to be above men, but not below. Did not want rights limited
Seneca Falls Convention
A law making it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or other countries
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Induction electric motor
Nikola Tesla
Morse code, typewriter, sewing machine, refrigerator, sky scrapers, washing machine, and elevator
Inventions of the Gilded Age
Towns run by company; difficult to leave
Company towns
Robber baron/captain of industry, excelled in the banking industry with the help of a holding company
JP Morgan
Eliminate competition
Horizontal integration
Wrote The Jungle. Helped pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act
Upton Sinclair
