Gilded Age Part 1

Who coined the term Gilded Age?

• Andrew Carnegie

• Ernest Hemmingway

• Mark Twain

• Edgar Allen Poe

Policy of little or government on big business

• Social Darwinism

• Laissez-fair

• Progressivism

• Social Gospel

Dishonest political system where politicians appoint supporters to political jobs despite qualifications

• Grafting

• Spoils System

• Social Gospel

• Social Darwinsim

When was the Gilded Age

• 1861-1865

• 1893-1906

• 1870-1900

• 1910-1930

The political party of the rich and big business

• Democrats

• Republicans

The political party of the factory workers, farmers, and the working man

• Democrats

• Republicans

Political Party who backed high tariffs during The Gilded Age

• Democrats

• Republicans

Part of the Republican party who supported and defended the spoils system

• Stalwarts

• Halfbreeds

• Independent Republicans

Part of the Republican party who supported spoils system reform but would not leave the Republican party if they did not get it.

• Stalwarts

• Half Breeds

• Independent Republicans

Part of the Republican party that totally opposed the spoils system

• Stalwarts

• Halfbreeds

• Independent Republicans

• Democrats