Gilded Age - WWI Review

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

in 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.

• Nativist Act
• Mexican Reparition Act
• Dawes Act
• Chinese Exclusion Act

During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

The innovation of this transportation help open up the national market? 

• boats
• railroads
• autombils 
• horse drawn carriages 

How nineteenth-century city bosses and their machines retained control? 

• Providing aid to citizens in exchange for political support
• Developing alliances among diverse immigrant populations
• Using police forces to protect organized labor
• Establishing local militias to prevent outside interference

poverty, famine, and political oppression are:

• Pull factors of immigration

• Push factors of immigration

Robber barons such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller:

• believed in competition

• believed in creating monopolies that eliminated competition

• believed in reforming the government to help immigrants in the US

• helped women receive the right to vote (suffrage)

Passed by President Woodrow Wilson, this controlled the money supply and is considered to be the country's central banking system

• FDIC

• Federal Reserve System

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

The Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 was the first women's right conventions where they fought for social, civil, and religious rights for women. This meeting later launched the women's suffrage movement that led to the:

• 18th amendment

• 19th amendment

• 16th amendment

• 17th amendment

In the late 19th century, the ideas of Social Darwinism were used primarily to 

• explain the differences in income between the rich and the poor
• urge Congress to end immigration
• encourage the passage of compulsory education laws
• support the growth of new political parties