Gilded/Industrail Age

Question 1

G. Swift

Answer 1

Invented Refrigerated Railcar

Question 2

T. Edison

Answer 2

Invented Light Bulb

Question 3

C.Sholes

Answer 3

Invented typewriter

Question 4

A.Bell

Answer 4

invented Telephone

Question 5

Wright Brothers

Answer 5

invented airplane

Question 6

S.Morse

Answer 6

Invented Telegraph

Question 7

Elijah McCoy

Answer 7

Invented Lubricating Cup

Question 8

Henry Ford Invented

Answer 8

Mass Production and Ford Model Ts

Question 9

Laissez-faire

Answer 9

Bussiness can do whatever it wants and Goverment will not interfere

Question 10

free Enterprise

Answer 10

The economic system in which citizen are free to run bussiness however they want

Question 11

Bessemer Process

Answer 11

an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first sucessful method in making steel low cost

Question 12

Natural Resources in the industrial Revolution

Answer 12

Coal, Iron, Oil

Question 13

Edwin L Drake

Answer 13

He produced oil in Titusville Pen, and produced 20 barrels of oil a day.

Question 14

Big Oil States

Answer 14

Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia

Question 15

Workforce during the industrial revolution

Answer 15

Farmers, Former Slaves, Immigrants

Question 16

Who coined the term the gilded age

Answer 16

M. Twain

Question 17

Main Characteristics of the Gilded Age

Answer 17

New Polices on dealing with Native Americans
Rise of Polictal machines running local politics
The growth of industrialization

Question 18

Groups that suffered during the gilded age

Answer 18

Native Americans
Blacks
Immigrants
Framers
Women
Children

Question 19

Why Native Americans Suffered during the gilded age

Answer 19

They are forced onto reservations and to adopt American culture

Question 20

Why Blacks Suffered during the gilded age

Answer 20

They were denied basic rights and facing violence

Question 21

Why Immigrants Suffered during the gilded age

Answer 21

Face Discrimination and lived horrible intercity conditions

Question 22

Why Farmers Suffered during the gilded age

Answer 22

overproduction makes the values of goods go down

Question 23

why women suffered during the gilded age

Answer 23

Denied basic voting right and weren’t allowed to do the same jobs as men and faced pay discrimination

Question 24

why children suffered during the gilded age

Answer 24

Lacked good education and got payed nothing for the long hours of labor they had to do

Question 25

Polictal Machines

Answer 25

Powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal means to get their candidates elected to public office

Question 26

Boss Tweed

Answer 26

Polictal Boss, William Marcy Tweed who stole money from the the city of NY

Question 27

Tammany Hall

Answer 27

Nickname for Democratic Party machine in NY

Question 28

Tweed Ring

Answer 28

Most famous polictal machine, headed by William Marcy Tweed

Question 29

Graft

Answer 29

the illegal use of political influence for personal gain

Question 30

Kickbacks

Answer 30

a payment made to someone who vacillated a transaction or appointment

Question 31

patronage

Answer 31

The act of giving Goverment jobs to supporters of the winning party in a election “Spoils System”

Question 32

Half Breeds

Answer 32

Republican Reformers who wanted to put an end to the spoil system (James Blaine)

Question 33

Stalwarts

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Republicans who supported patronage led by Roscoe Conklin

Question 34

Gilded age Presidents were

Answer 34

Considered weak in comparison to congress

Question 35

US Grant

Answer 35

His administration started the gilded age, there were many scandals during his time as president, became guilty by association

Question 36

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Answer 36

NY newspaper was first to reveal this scandal were the officers of Unoin Pacific Railroad former there own construction company. These Railroad officers got payed big time. Grants VP and members of congress were involved. Credit Mobilier Company was the construction company which was found guilty of steal from Unoin pacific railroad . They covered it up by selling stocks at a large discount which Goverment bought

Question 37

Whiskey Ring Scandal

Answer 37

Whiskey Distillers did it pay the taxes the Goverment gave them and treasury officials got the taxes as a bonus

Question 38

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 38

He is a republican from Ohio who won despite not wining electoral college vote only wining popular.

Question 39

comprise of 1877

Answer 39

Rutherford was president if he removed troops from the south, constructed a transcontinental railroad using Texas and Pacific, Improved southern rivers, appoint a southern democrats to cabinet

Question 40

Who did Rutherford B. Hayes fire

Answer 40

2 top officials at the fraudulent custom house

Question 41

James Garfield

Answer 41

President that opposed spoil system and was assinated

Question 42

Charles Guiteau

Answer 42

Man who assinated James Garfield in train station

Question 43

Anti- Spoil System President

Answer 43

James Garfield

Question 44

Chester A Aruthur

Answer 44

Fancy, Posh, Rich guy brought up by spoil system to eventually tore it down

Question 45

Pendleton Act

Answer 45

Was passed in a reaction to Garfield’s assintion, it was a merit system for awarding federal jobs, candidates must take an examination (Civil Service exam) to qualify 10%

Question 46

Grover Clevand

Answer 46

The 22nd and 24th president, fathered a child out of wedlock

Question 47

which President repealed Tenure of Office act

Answer 47

Grover Clevand

Question 48

Prevouis Grover Clevand jobs

Answer 48

Mayor of Buffalo and Governor of NY