The Gilded Ages

Question 1

everything looked prosperous, opulent, and shiny on the surface

Answer 1

gilded

Question 2

positive of the gilded age

Answer 2

industrialization
economic growth
new inventions
growth of middle class and suburbs

Question 3

negatives of the gilded age

Answer 3

working conditions 
poverty and living conditions
gap between rich and poor increases 
farmers struggle
political corruption 
lack of rights for women

Question 4

scandals

Answer 4

grant

Question 5

killed reconstruction

Answer 5

Hayes

Question 6

assassination

Answer 6

garfield

Question 7

assassinated

Answer 7

McKinley

Question 8

developed around 1850 injected air into molten iron to remove impurities and make steel lighter, more flexible, and rust-resistant

Answer 8

Bessemer process

Question 9

what is steel used for

Answer 9

railroads
farm equipment
canned goods

Question 10

engineers use steel to create what

Answer 10

skyscrapers and longer bridges

Brooklyn bridge

Question 11

stimulated the growth of other industries
helped cities grow
helped increase westward expansion
standard time zones were created to get everyone on correct time

Answer 11

railroad benefits

Question 12

charged much higher rates to who

Answer 12

westward farmers

Question 13

credit mobilizer scandal (grants administration)
Union Pacific
take construction company
bribed members of congress

Answer 13

corruption

Question 14

perfected the light bulb
motion picture
organized power plants
organized first research lab

Answer 14

Thomas Edison

Question 15

telephone (1876)

Answer 15

Alexander graham bell

Question 16

camera

Answer 16

George Eastman

Question 17

oil

Answer 17

John d Rockefeller

Question 18

steel

Answer 18

Andrew Carnegie

Question 19

railroad

Answer 19

Vanderbilt

Question 20

began US steel
became first billion dollar corporation
responsible for General Electric bailed out the US economy on more than one occasion

Answer 20

industrialists

Question 21

process in which an increasing proportion of a population lives in cities

Answer 21

urbanization

Question 22

why did new immigrants begin to move

Answer 22

for work

Question 23

what began to replace farmers

Answer 23

farm machines

Question 24

who left the south

Answer 24

African Americans

Question 25

poor standards of sanitation

Answer 25

housing shortages

Question 26

struggled to keep up with growth

Answer 26

transportation

Question 27

difficult to produce and transport

Answer 27

clean water

Question 28

challenge and often neglected

Answer 28

waste removal

Question 29

very common
great Chicago Fire
1871

Answer 29

fires

Question 30

began to rise with urbanization

Answer 30

crime

Question 31

the new rich

Answer 31

nouveau riche

Question 32

spending money to show off their wealth

Answer 32

conspicuous consumption

Question 33

a rundown apartment used to have large numbers of low income families

Answer 33

tenement

Question 34

children as young as what worked for up to 14 hours a day

Answer 34

5

Question 35

an organized group of people that controlled the activities of a political party

Answer 35

political machines

Question 36

head of political machines

Answer 36

city boss

Question 37

city bosses controlled jobs in what

Answer 37

police
fire
sanitation departments

Question 38

city bosses controlled agencies that granted licenses to what

Answer 38

businesses

Question 39

city bosses controlled money to fund

Answer 39

large construction projects

Question 40

loved immigrants

Answer 40

political machines

Question 41

rigged elections
became wealthy from kickbacks and illegal payments
control police force to stay out of trouble

Answer 41

political machines

Question 42

used fake names and voted multiple times

Answer 42

voter fraud

Question 43

granting favors in return for political support

Answer 43

patronage

Question 44

return of money in exchange for a business

Answer 44

kickbacks

Question 45

bribes

Answer 45

graft

Question 46

became head of tommany hall, nycs powerful democratic political machine
led the tweed ring (group of corrupt politicians)

Answer 46

William M tweed

Question 47

takes down tommany

Answer 47

Thomas Nast

Question 48

Supreme Court decision
separate facilities did not violate the 14th amendment as long as they are equal
1896

Answer 48

plessy v Ferguson

Question 49

between 20 million Europeans
mostly from southern and Eastern Europe
most were Jewish/ Catholic
more came from Mexico, Caribbean, and China

Answer 49

new immigrants

Question 50

movement to ensure that native- born Americans recovered better treatment than immigrants

Answer 50

nativism

Question 51

first union that accepts all people

8hour work day

Answer 51

the Knights of labor

Question 52

accepted only skilled white males, won higher wages and shorter weeks for its members

Answer 52

the American federation of labor

Question 53

head of AFL

Answer 53

Samuel Gompers

Question 54

RR workers strike to protest wage cut

violence erupted in many cities for a week

Answer 54

great railroad strike of 1877

Question 55

term came from mark twains book “a tale of today”

Answer 55

the gilded age