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Gilded Age chp. 2-4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Captains of Industry (robber barons) | a business leaders who's productivity positively impacted the country in some way |
| Rockefeller | a captain of industry in the oil business who founded the Standard Oil Company and formed the first great U.S. business trust |
| Carnegie | a captain of industry in the steel business who believed strongly in the concept of social Darwinism and unrestricted competition |
| Morgan | an american financier who financed the reorganization of railroads and industrial consolidation. |
| Edison | a famous inventor who created the phonograph and the light bulb. his contributions to technology changed the lives of everyone in the gilded age |
| Bell | famous for creating the telephone, he changed communication in the U.S. forever with his contributions to technology |
| Great Railroad Strike of 1877 | Also known as the Great Upheaval. It started in West Virginia when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company cut wages for the 3rd time. At the end of the strike over 1000 people were imprisoned and around 100 had been killed |
| Haymarket Strike (haymarket riot) | In 1886, a labor protest rally in Chicago Haymarket Square turned into a riot after an unknown person threw a bomb at police |
| Homestead Strike | an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, starting a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. |
| Social Darwinism | The theory that Darwin's idea of "survival of the fittest" in nature could also be applied to human beings in society. |
| settlement house movement | a reformist social movement which aimed to bring the poor closer both in proximity and in social connectedness |
| Social Gospel | A protestant movement which wished to apply christian morals to social issues especially ones concerning social justice |
| Political Machines | a political group in which an authoritative leader(s) command the support of a group supporters and businesses |
| Gilded Age | An age in american history that was marked by social Darwinism and poor treatment of the working class, It was dubbed the gilded age by Mark Twain who meant that it had a glittering surface that cover a corrupt core |
| Spoils System | a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters as reward for their support |
| Civil Service reform | a series of movements for the improvement of civil services jobs and denounced the spoils system as unjust and corrupt |
| mugwump | The Mugwumps were Republican political activists who switched parties from the Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland |
| stalwarts | The Stalwarts were a faction of the Republican Party that existed briefly in the United States during and after Reconstruction and the Gilded Age led by Senator Roscoe Conkling |
| the Grange | a movement the calls for families to come together to support the growth of agriculture both financially and politically |
| Populist Party | a left wing political party focused on agriculture and was also known as the People's Party |
| Coxey's Army | Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey. it was caused by a lack of government assistance in making new jobs during the economic decline |
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