Gilded Age Flashcards
Credit Moblier
corrupt scandal by Railroad company and politicians to steal money and enrich selves. Damaged the reputations of Republicans and President Grant and weakened the economy of the country.
Andrew Carnegie
Steel - was once the richest man in America.
John Rockefeller
Oil, horizontal integration
corneliius vanderbilt
steamboats and railroads, vanderbilts know for building opulent palaces to show off wealth
JP Morgan
banking
George Pullman
Railroad sleeper cars “Pullman Palace”. Built strictly controlled town for his workers; no drinking or hanging out allowed
Mark Twain
Humorist and American literary genius, coined the Gilded Age to describe and satirize the era’s glittering exterior covering rotten filth.
Jane Addams
reformer founded Hull House, settlement houses in Chicago to help poor and urban immigrated women
Ida B wells
born a slave, bravely became a journalist trying to raise awareness about the end lynching of African Americans during the Jim Crow era
Boss Tweed
his political machine in NYC controlled politics and stole money from the taxpayers to enriched himself and his cronies
Jacob Riis
photo journalist “Muckraker” reformer. Took photos of horrible city life conditions of the poor to try to get peoples attention to make change. Book was entitled “How the Other Half Lives.”
Jim Crow
- based on a minstrel act that mocked ignorant enslaved people, these were laws that made legal discrimination, segregation, and disenfranchisement of African Americans.
George Armstrong Custer
Cavalry commander who attacked the Sioux in 1876 South Dakota and got himself and all his men killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn/Greasy Grass.
Horizontal Integration
Illegal today, control all of one type of industry (monopoly). The federal government broke this up and with anti-trust laws because it hurt competition and consumers
Vertical Integration
attempt to control all aspects of your industry and production to maximize efficiency, cut costs, and increase profits.
Push Factors
why people left their home country
Pull Factors
why people came to the United States
Ellis Island
NYC in east coast, many Europeans arrived in the east coast were processed and passed through here
Angel Island
in California, Asians coming here through the Pacific to the West Coast were processed and passed through this place
Nativism
overt favoritism toward native born white Americans. Led to demands for restrictions on immigration, and manifests as discrimination, prejudice, and hate of immigrants.
Message described in “The Bosses of the Senate”
Cartoonist is trying to show how the senate is being controlled by the wealthy monopolists/trusts, while the people have to say
Vanderbilt
Steamboats and railroads, accumulated the largest fortune in the US. He cut shipping rates, making him gain the reputation of one of the Robber Barons
JP Morgan
Banking - leading financier, founded the banking company JP Morgan and CO. Loaned US govt’ $45 million in gold.
John D Rockefeller
Oil, head of the Standard Oil CO. Used his money to fund many philanthropic causes. He used unethical methods and would therefore also be included in a list of Robber Barons.
