APUSH Period 6: 1865-1898

Question 1

Gilded Age

Answer 1

1870s-1900
Rapid economic growth: industrialization, immigrants.
Also an era of poverty and inequality, because immigrants.

Question 2

Social Darwinism

Answer 2

applied natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.

Question 3

Conspicuous consumption

Answer 3

spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury goods and services to publicly display economic power.

Question 4

Populist (peoples) Party

Answer 4

highly critical of capitalism, especially banks and railroads, and allied itself with labor movement.

Question 5

Political Machines

Answer 5

organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses to vote for candidates on election day.

Question 6

Settlement Houses

Answer 6

1880s-1920s
tried to bring poor and wealthy to live closer together. Provided daycare, education, healthcare to improve the lives of the poor in the areas