Gilded Age pt 1, Flashcards
(26 cards)
15th Amendment
“1, 5 voting rights”
Voting rights given to black men
14th Amendment
“1, 4 citizenship for more”
Granted Citizenship
13th Amendment
“1, 3 set em free”
Abolished Slavery
Assimilate
- To take on the traits of the dominant culture till the assimilated group in socially indistinguishable from other members
Ex: Indian Reservations
Dawes Act
- Assimilation
- Failed
- 1887
- Authorized by Pres Grover Cleveland to break up reservations
Patent (Art I, Sec. 8.8, Us Con)
An intellectual property right in regard to one ideas & creations
The Wright Brothers
- invented the airplane 1903
- !st flight only lasted 12 seconds
- Started w a toy
- 4th flight was successful lasting 59 secs
- Used bicycles to experiment
- owned bicycle shop 1899-1903
- Us Govt first refused to buy plane
Homestead Act
Provided 160 acres of land to anyone who agreed to farm it
Klondike Gold Rush
- Mass exodus of prospecting migrants going to the Canadian Yukon territory and Alaska after gold was discovered
- 1896
Free Enterprise
- Economic system in which priv business operates in competition & largely free of state control
(work as you choose)
Communism
- Final stage of socialism
- No one owns their own things
- Govt controls everything you do and own
(North Korea, Cuba, China, etc)
Corneilius Vanderbuilt
(1794 - 1877)
- one of the most successful entrepreneurs
- consolidated northeastern railroads 1860s
- began building Grand Central Station in NYC - Panic of 1873
- began railroad trend
Thomas Edison
- 1876 pioneered “invention factory” (forerunner of the modern research lab)
- Invented Phonograph (1878)
- Invented Lightbulb (1879)
- Founded magnetic telegraph (1845)
“ Thomas Alva Edison”
Gilded Age
Characteristics:
- 1870 -> 1900
- Economy: Ag -> indust
- Society: Rural -> Urban
- Govt : Small Laissez Faire -> Big Regulatory
Samuel Morse
- invented the telegraph in 1844
- patented the telegraph at 49 (1840)
- portrit artist from Massachusetts
- telegraph = distance writing
Alexander Graham Bell
- invented the telephone in 1876
- very interested in sound and speech
- father helped teach deaf and mutes to speak, bell continued this (visible speech system)
Gross Domestic Product (GPD)
total value of goods produced & services provided in a country in one year
Adam Smith
- scottish philosopher
- father of modern economics
1776 “wealth of nations”
Socialism
Economic system based on govt ownership of production, transportation, and communication
Art & Literature
Mark Twain - Made the term “the Guilded Age” wrote abt mining camp
Owen Wisler - Write the 1st cowboy novel called “the Virginian”
Fredick Remmington - Artist, created sculptures
Charles Russel - Artist
Willa Cather - “O Pioneers”
Robber Barons
A derogatory term of social criticism towards certain wealthy and powerful 19th century American Business men
Transcontinental Railroad
Pres. Abe Lincoln signed the 1st Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864
Entrepreneur
A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so
(being their own boss)
Monopoly (AKA Trust)
Exclusive control of goods and services
