The Gilded Age
Vocabulary - * are very important
*Urbanization Demography *Tenement
*Political Machine Political Bosses Immigration
New Immigrant Nativists
*Americanization *Chinese Exclusion Act Telephone
Bessemer Process *Transcontinental Railroad *Thomas Edison
Free Enterprise System National Market *Corporation
Alexander Graham Bell Entrepreneur *Gilded Age
Captain of Industry *Robber Baron *Andrew Carnegie
Philanthropy *John D. Rockefeller Monopoly/Trusts
Interstate Commerce Act *Sherman Anti-Trust Act Child Labor
*Laissez-faire Union AFL
*Knights of Labor *Samuel Gompers Populist Party
Homestead Strike Great Strike *Pullman Strike
*Haymarket Riot *Liberalism Conservatism
Social Gospel *Gospel of Wealth *Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed *Pendleton Act 1883 J.P Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt *Vertical Integration CIO
*Horizontal Integration Interstate Commerce Commission Conservatism
Collective Bargaining *Jacob Riis Republicanism
Essential Questions:
1. Describe political corruption of the Gilded Age.
2. Why was Civil Service Reform accomplished and how?
3. Why did Populism appeal to famers and what goals did it hope to accomplish?
4. Explain the effects of scientific discoveries and technological innovations on the
economic development of the United States, as well as, how specific needs resulted in
advancements in agriculture and medicine and how they improved the standard of
living the United States?
5. What led to the growth of railroads in the late 1800s?
6. What led to the creation and growth of labor unions?
7. What were the issues farmers faced in the late 1800s?
8. What conditions created the boom in the cattle industry?
9. Describe the changing relationship between the federal government and private
business, as well as the policies of federal government and their impact on businesses
during the Gilded Age? What were the costs and the benefits?
10. Describe the push and pull factors that brought immigrants to the United States?
11. What were the effects on women, minorities, children and immigrants during the
Gilded Age?
12. Describe the immigration experience for those coming to the United States.
13. What were the causes and effects of urbanization in the late 19th century?
14. Identify the Social Gospel movement and what it led too.
15. Why did Industrialists become and in what ways were they philanthropist?
16. What were the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from
immigration (legal and illegal) to the United States.
17. Describe “Old Immigration” vs. “New Immigration”.
18. Explain how specific needs resulted in scientific discoveries and technological
innovations in agriculture, and medicine.