Gilded Age

What role did the U.S. Patent Office serve in the Gilded Age?

It provided legal avenues to protect inventions.

The Haymarket Square Affair led to:

A public connection between anarchists and unions.

Immigrants in the 1880s:

Started coming from Southern and Eastern Europe.

The Ashcan School was:

An American art movement focused on industrialism and its drawbacks.

What is Taylorism?

A system focused on efficiency.

During the Gilded Age, the Morrill Act and wealthy philanthropists poured funds into:

Colleges.

Social Darwinism became popular because it:

Fit into the false ideals of the Gospel of Wealth, poverty, and racism.

Why were many "new stock" immigrants disliked?

They worked for lower wages than people already living in the U.S.

Oil and gas exploration in Pennsylvania was originally done to find:

Lubricants for machinery.

Puck Magazine:

Satirized American politics.

Why did Mark Twain call the era the Gilded Age?

Business and industry made enormous wealth while hiding social problems.

Tin Pan Alley:

Helped produce more popular music.

Vaudeville contributed to American society by:

Introducing forms of jazz and the blues to American audiences.

The Greenbackers received most of their support from:

Farmers.

Early crude oil was extracted mainly for:

Lubrication of machinery.

How did industry leaders try to discredit unions?

They attempted to associate unions with anarchists.

Because of increased machinery during the Gilded Age:

More women and children became employed in factories.

Many wealthy people eased urban problems by creating:

Parks.

Horizontal integration:

Leads to monopolies.

The death of President Garfield:

Led to reform in the federal hiring process.

In response to the Panic of 1873, President Grant:

Made poor financial decisions that extended the recession.

During the Gilded Age, improvements in ________ led to commuting by streetcars, cable cars, and subways.

Transportation.

Political machines:

Earned support through corruption, nepotism, and favors.

Urban drinking water during the Gilded Age:

Was susceptible to typhoid and cholera.

One important mineral besides iron ore that fueled industrialization was:

Coal.

Department stores in the 1870s and 1880s focused on:

Marketing toward women.

An example of vertical integration is:

A fast-food company that owns farms, meat processing, and a soda company.

The Gospel of Wealth:

Gave people the perception that hard work will always lead to success.

"New stock" immigrants typically lived:

In tightly packed neighborhoods with other immigrants.

Early American sociologists:

Focused on the problems of the poor in cities.

Free enterprise during the Gilded Age was welcomed unless:

It allowed competition to large companies.

Union strikes during the Gilded Age:

Were typically ended by court rulings and army intervention.

The Boston Fire (1872) and Chicago Fire (1871) led to reforms in:

Fireproofing buildings.

Second-generation immigrants:

Assimilated into American culture more easily because of public schools.

Unions during the Gilded Age:

Were not successful in getting most of the reforms they wanted.

Trusts (definition):

Created monopolies.

Modernity:

The rapid inventions of electricity, radio, telephone, automobiles, and airplanes that made life more comfortable.

Trusts (organization):

Groups of companies held under one umbrella company.

Why did baseball and football grow in popularity during the 1880s?

Machinery in factories gave people more time for leisure activities.

Which political party was formed to encourage printing more currency?

Greenbackers.