Glided Age. Flashcards
Andrew Carnegie
A Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
Assimilation
is the process by which a subaltern group’s native language and culture are lost under pressure to assimilate to those of a dominant cultural group.
Big Business
large-scale, corporate-controlled, financial or business activities. As a term, it is typically used to describe activities that run from “huge transactions” to the more general “doing big things.”
Close of the Frontier
By the end of the nineteenth century, the West was effectively settled. Railroads stretched across all parts of the region, from the Great Northern, which ran along the Canadian border, to the Southern Pacific that ran across Texas and the Arizona and New Mexico territories to link New Orleans and Los Angeles. The influx of homesteaders, ranchers, and miners swelled the census rolls and led to the admission of Nevada (1864), Colorado (1876), South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Washington (all four in 1889), and Idaho and Wyoming (1890) to the Union. New towns and cities created by the cattle or mining boom, such as Abilene, Denver, and San Francisco, dotted the trans-Mississippi West.
Eugene Debs
an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
Gilded Age
the period following the Civil War, roughly from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the turn of the twentieth century.
Grange
An outlying farm with tithe barns, belonging to a monastery or feudal lord.
Haymarket Riot
refers to the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
Homestead Strikes
was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.
Industrialization
the development of industry on an extensive scale.
Labor Unions
An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
Political Machine
machine: a group that controls the activities of a political party; “he was endorsed by the Democratic machine”.
Pullman Strike
a nationwide conflict in the summer of 1894 between the new American Railway Union (ARU) and railroads that occurred in the United States.
Scientific Discoveries
The timeline below shows the date of publication of possible major scientific theories and discoveries, along with the discoverer. In many cases, the discoveries spanned several years.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
a landmark federal statute on United States competition law passed by Congress in 1890. It prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies, and organizations suspected of being in violation.
