Gilded Age Vocabulary

The Gilded Age

• This period, although tainted by various political schemes, led to the development of many new industries.

• book by Andrew Carnegie that argued that the wealthy have an obligation to give something back to society

Gospel of Wealth

• book by Andrew Carnegie that argued that the wealthy have an obligation to give something back to society.

• the notion that the industrialists should own the poor and not help financial in their struggles

• The idea that leading steel producer at the time would own the first billion-dollar corporation

• A news article about a cartoonist for the New York Times that drew many famous political cartoons including one of Boss Tweed.

Populism

• the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite

• the social doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the privileged elite over the poor

• the common knowledge that supports the rights and powers of doctors over nurses

• the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the immigrants than with the Native Americans

Political Machines

• A corrupt group of men who act as fake politicians

• An organized group that controls a political party in a city & offers services to voters & businesses in exchange for political & financial support

• A high technological device that works to figure out the outcome of elections held in both local and state elections

Social Darwinism

• An alliance of trade and craft unions; used strikes as a major tactic

• a process which is caused it to be done by a machine or machines

• An economic & social philosophy supposedly based on the biologist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection

• the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

• A theory that only the Chinese are not allow to enter Russia

• A law that prohibits all Chinese to trade only with the US

• A law that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists and government officials from entering the US

• A policy that only allows China exclusively to work with the United States in trade

Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)

• A law that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade

• A law that was allow monopolies to flourish in the United States

• A policy that processes whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

• An alliance of trade and craft unions; used strikes as a major tactic

Industrialization

• the process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one

• company’s taking over its suppliers and distributors and transportation systems to gain total control over the quality and cost of its product

• A labor organization for unskilled workers formed by a group of radical unionists and socialists

Businessmen known for their positive contributions to the modern industrial economy

• Captains of Industry

• Industrial pirates

• Machine Politics

• Bessemer Process

Thomas Edison

• best known as the inventor of cereal

• inventor of the electric car

• inventor best known for his invention of the electric light bulb

• best known for his invention of vaccinations