Exam Review Study Guide: Gilded Age
Exam Format:Multiple Choice and Fill-in
Materials to Review:Chapter 16-20. Gilded Age Powerpoints.
Transcontinental RailroadsBessemer Process
Thomas EdisonHomestead Act of 1862
Morrill Land Grant ActPacific Railways Act (Checkerboarding)
Samuel MorseAlexander Graham Bell
Department StoresMail Order Catalogs
Sears and Roebuck Co.Laissez-Faire Economics
Cutthroat TacticsBlack Friday – 1869
Panic of 1873Panic of 1893
Coxey’s ArmyVertical Monopolies
Horizontal MonopoliesTrusts
Concerns about CompetitionSherman Anti-Trust Act
United States v. EC Knight Co.Cornelius Vanderbilt
Jay GouldJ.P. Morgan
Andrew CarnegieGustavus Swift
John Rockefeller
City ImprovementsSteel & Tech Development
New ImmigrationImmigration Act – 1882
Contract Labor Law – 1885Ellis Island
Jacob Riis – How the Other Half LivesTenement Houses
Ethnic NeighborhoodsNativists
Common Schools (Public)Catholic Schools
Labor IssuesYellow Dog Contracts
Women in the WorkplaceTriangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Knights of LaborTerence Powderly
American Federation of LaborSam Gompers
Eugene DebsGreat Railroad Strike
Haymarket Square RiotHomestead Steel Strike
Pullman StrikeAmerican Dream
Horatio AlgerMiddle Class
Social DarwinismThe Gospel of Wealth
Social GospelWalter Rauschenbusch
Settlement HousesHull House
Jane AddamsHenryLloyd – Wealth Against Commonwealth
Henry George – Progress and PovertyEdward Bellamy – Looking Backward
Political MachinesBoss Tweed
Thomas NastCredit Mobilier Scandal
Indian Ring ScandalWhiskey Ring Affair
StalwartsHalf-Breeds
James GarfieldCharles Giuteau
Chester ArthurPendleton Act of 1882
Election of 1884Mugwumps
James BlaineElection of 1888 (Tariff Debate)
Billion Dollar CongressMcKinley Tariff
Wilson-Gorman TariffThe New South
Hall v. DeCuirCivil Rights Cases of 1883
Plessy v. FergusonBooker T. Washington – Atlanta Compromise
Voting RestrictionsJim Crow
LynchingOklahoma Land Rush
Frederick Jackson TurnerOpen Range Ranching
Desert Land ActBarbed Wire Wars
Comstock LodeBoomtowns
Plains IndiansBuffalo in the Plains
Treaties of Fort LaramieDawes Severalty Act
ReservationsBattle of Little Bighorn
Ghost DanceWounded Knee
Helen Hunt JacksonBurlingame Treaty
Chinese Exclusion Act – 1882Mechanization in Farming
Problems of Western FarmersLong Haul-Short Haul
Patrons of Husbandry/GrangersMunn v. Illinois
Wabash v. IllinoisInterstate Commerce Act
PopulistsOmaha Platform
Gold v. Silver Monetary StandardWilliam Jennings Bryan
Cross of Gold Speech
John Dewey
Mark TwainRealism
William Dean HowellsHenry James
PragmatistsRichard Ely
Frederick Jackson TurnerHoratio Alger
Oliver Wendall HolmesChautauqua Movement