Unit 6: Gilded Age

Question 1

Robber Barons

Answer 1

Notable owners of big business

Question 2

Horizontal Integration

Answer 2

Owning all versions of a service or industry

Question 3

Vertical Integration

Answer 3

Owning all the steps of an industry

Question 4

Rockefeller

Answer 4

Oil

Question 5

Morgan

Answer 5

Banking

Question 6

Carnegie

Answer 6

Steel

Question 7

Vanderbilt

Answer 7

Railroads

Question 8

Social Darwinism

Answer 8

Survival of the fittest, rich can take control of poor because they are the “fit”

Question 9

Socialists

Answer 9

focuses on laborers improving their conditions and taking power away from business

Question 10

Homestead Act

Answer 10

Law that offered free land in the Midwest on the great plains

Question 11

Sodbusters

Answer 11

first farmers that arrived in the great plains

Question 12

Grange movement

Answer 12

organization of allied farmers that created cooperatives as a way to regulate shipping and sales costs

Question 13

Populist

Answer 13

“People’s Party” made up of mostly farmers and workers who faced poverty as a result of the industrial revolution

Question 14

Williams Jennings Bryan

Answer 14

Populist Party Candidate. Wrote the “Cross of Gold” speech in support of American farmers

Question 15

Gold Standard/Silver Standard

Answer 15

Basing the value of a currency off a country’s supply of the total amount of gold they had. Farmers wanted silver included in this value in order to cause inflation and increase available money

Question 16

Conservationists

Answer 16

An environmental movement created to combat deforestation. Promoted regulated use of natural resources

Question 17

“Old” Immigrants

Answer 17

Immigrants from primarily Western Europe. Maintained similar religions, languages and job skills to Americans

Question 18

“New” Immigrants

Answer 18

Immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. Brought new languages, unfamiliar religions, and were employed in low skill factory and labor jobs

Question 19

Civil Service Commission

Answer 19

Reform in government that gave jobs only to those who could pass an exam relating to that position

Question 20

Greenbacks

Answer 20

Paper money not backed by gold or silver