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| John D. Rockefeller | founded standard oil and was the first billionaire |
| first billionaire and founded standard oil | John D. Rockefeller |
| What did Alexander G. Bell invent?? | invented the telephone |
| Who invented the telephone?? | Alexander G. Bell |
| Who was a philanthropist? | Andrew Carnegie |
| Who founded US Steel | Andrew Carnegie |
| WHo founded steel? | Andrew Carnegie |
| Who invented the light bulb among other things?? | Thomas Edison |
| What did Thomas Edison invent | The light bulb |
| Who said "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% persperation | Thomas Edison |
| Who founded the American Federation of Labor?? | Samuel Gompers |
| What did Samuel Gompers found? | the American Federation of Labor |
| What was the first successful labor union? | Samuel Gompers |
| Who was a cigar maker? | Samuel Gompers |
| What was Mark Twain's real name? | Samuel Clemens |
| What did Mark Twain write? | Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn |
| Who came up with the name Gilded Age?? | Mark Twain |
| Who made a fortune in the meat-packing industry?? | Gustavus Swift |
| Who was the first to use a refrigerated railroad car?? | Gustavus Swift |
| Who made a fortune in the banking industry?? | J.P. Morgan |
| What is Laissez-Faire?? | it means that the government leaved business alone |
| What is social Darwinism? | Only the fittest who work the hardest in society will survive |
| Politician from Nebraska | William Jennings Bryan |
| A spokesman for farmers | William Jennings Bryan |
| Leader of populist party | William Jennings Bryan |
| Ran for president 3 times | William Jennings Bryan |
| Believed that silver and gold should back up money | William Jennings Bryan |
| Famous for "Cross of Gold" speech | William Jennings Bryan |
| Years of the Gilded Age/Progressive Era | 1877-1920 |
| Made a fortune in the railroad business by running competitors out of business | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| Why were people able to become so wealthy and have business so large? | Laissez Faire___No income tax___No child labor laws___Monopolies___Free Enterprise System |
| What established child labor laws? | The Keating-Owen Act |
| What was Political Reform? | cities elected city councils, which ran them instead of Political bosses |
| Who started the federal reserve system? | Woodrow Wilson |
| What did Woodrow Wilson start? | Federal Reserve System |
| What did the Federal Reserve System do? | helped make peoples' money safe in banks |
| Name five inventions during this time | telephone___light bulb___typewriter___motion pictures___ponocraphs |
| What was the Grange? | A farmers organization which got involved in Politics and began sending farmers to Congress to pass laws in their favor |
| What were some leisure activities | Bicycling___Baseball___Basketball___Magazines___dime novels |
| Who was assassinated during this time? | William McKinley and James Garfield |
| Who wrote the Jungle? | Upton Sinclair |
| What did Upton Sinclair write? | the Jungle |
| What was the Jungle about? | the horrors of the meatpacking industry and was a muckraker |
| Who wrote the Octopus? | Frank Norris |
| What did Frank Norris write | The Octopus |
| What was the Octopus about? | the evils in the railroad industry and he was a muckraker |
| What was a Muckraker? | Journalists who exposed the evils in society in the late 1800s and early 1900s |
| What did the 16th amendment establish? | a graduated income tax |
| Which amendment established a graduated income tax? | the 16th amendment |
| What did the 17th amendment establish? | direct election of senators by the people of a state |
| What was the 18th amendment? | the prohibition of selling and consuming alcohol |
| What was the 19th amendment? | when women got the right to vote |
| What was a pool | where companies got together and set prices |
| What was a monopoly? | where one business has total control over the selling of a particular product |
| What was a trust | a type of monopoly where one company controls a product and everything needed to produce that product and get it to the consumer |
| What is a corporation? | a business with stock-holders |
| What is a strike? | where workers refuse to work until they get better conditions and pay |
| What was Free Enterprise | an economic system where businesses can compete |
| What did Jane Adams found? | the Hull House and helped the poor in Chicago |
| What was the Interstate Commerce Act? | the first law that tried to regulate railroads |
| Did the Interstate Commerce Act work? | NO!!! |
| What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? | the first law that tried to end monopolies |
| Did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act work? | NO!!! |
| WHo was John Philip Sousa? | a composer who wrote military marches |
| Name the issues the Progressives wanted to solve | They wanted an honest government__an active government___Social Reforms__Labor Reforms |
| What was New Freedom? | the campaign platform of Woodrow WIlson in the Election of 1912 |
| Who was Robert LaFollete? | the governor of Wisconson who was famous for political reforms in that state |
| What was the Keating-Owen Act? | regulated child labor |
| What was the Pure Food and Drug act? | made sure that ingredients in food and drugs were pure and beneficial for the consumer |
| Who were Robber Barons? | wealthy people who were corrupt and ruthless and ran others out of business |
| What was the Bull Moose Party? | Teddy Roosevelt's political party in 1912 which split the Republican vote so Woodrow Wilson could win |
| Why did the US go through such rapid industrial growth? | Natural Resources became easier to get to ___There was an increased labor supply___Free Enterprise system existed___New Inventions |
| What was the Children's Bureau | a committee was established to look in to the abuse of children in the work place |
| Who was the Children's Bureau run by? | President Taft |
| What was an initiative | where citizens could propose laws |
| Referendum | Where people could vote on laws that had been made by the state legislature |
| Recall | people could remove elected official from office |
| What did Jacob Riis write | Wrote "How the Other Half Lives" |
| What was the book: How the Other Half Lives about? | showed how the poor in American Live |
| What were populists? | farmers plus city workers who work together to get laws passed for reform |
| What did Ida Tarbell write? | "The History of the Standard Oil Company" |
| What did "The History of the Standard Oil Company" expose? | the evils of that company |
| What was the Temperance Movement? | Movement which worked to eliminate the buying, selling, and consuming of alcohol |
| What were Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony leaders of | the women's right to vote movement |
| What was the first state that gave women the right to vote? | Wyoming |
| What was the Seneca Falls Convention? | 1st women's rights convention in Seneca Falls NY in 1848 |
| What was the Pendleton Civil Service Act? | Commission to set up competitive exams for federal jobs |
| What did Applicants have to do in the Pendleton Civil Service Act have to do? | applicants had to show their abilities |
| What did the Pendleton Civil Service Act establish? | the Civil Service |
| What are Gold Bugs? | people who wanted money only backed by gold |
| What were Silverites? | people who wanted money backed by silver and gold |
| Who was the leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Organization? | Carrie Nation |
| What did the Women's Christian Temperance Organization do? | worked to do away with the buying, selling, and distributing of alcohol |
| What did Carrie Nation do? | destroy saloons with hatchets |
