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When is the Gilded age?

1870 to 1900

What was Gilded age a period of?

A period of growing materialism and political corruption that gave rise to Important novels and political criticism

What were inventions made during the Gilded age?

Telephone, Typewriter, record player, movie, Kodak camera, electric light, skyscraper, automobile

Who invented Telephones?

Alexander Graham Bell

Who invented Light and Movies?

Thomas Edison

What interests grew during the Gilded age?

information, sports

What did cities have at the end of the Gilded age?

Automobiles, lights, electric trolleys

What did poor people live in?

Tenement buildings

Why were laws to improve tenements not working?

The inspectors were often bribed by landlords

What is a political machines?

people in a political party giving money, jobs and food to poor people to make them vote for them

What is the most famous political machines?

Boss Tweed

Where did immigrants first arrive?

Ellis island

What was given by france and what was it?

Statue of liberty, symbol of freedom and opportunity

Where did most immigrants before 1880 come from? What kind of people were they?

Western Europe, Protestant Christians

What were the different immigrants before 1880 like?

Irish, Catholic Christians

Why were immigrants that were different from Americans segregated?

They were afraid that they would take over and change the country

What was decided in the court Plessy vs Ferguson?

Black segregation was legal as long as they were separated but equal

What types of people were coming to America after 1880?

People from Southern and Eastern Europe

Why did Chinese immigrants come to America?

Gold rush

What did the US do to stop Chinese from taking over the Gov't?

Chinese exclusion act

What was the land between Mississippi river and California?

Wild west

Why was wild west called the Wild West?

it was unoccupied and uncivilized

What is the name of the Railroad that allowed people to travel from Atlantic to Pacific ocean?

transcontinental railroad

Where to where was the transcontinental railroad?

Omaha Nebraska to California

Where was the Union Pacific Railroad built between?

Omaha to Great Plains

Who made the Union Pacific Railroad?

Irish and Veterans from civil war

Where was the Central Pacific Railroad?

Sacramento California to Sierra Nevada Mountains

Who built the Central Pacific Railroad?

Chinese workers

Where was transcontinental Railroad finished?

promontory, Utah

What animal did Spanish bring to the US?

Longhorn cattle

What were cattles in Texas called?

Texas Longhorns

What hired cowboys to move the cattles?

Ranches

What is the Homestead Act?

gives 160 acres of land to anyone that settles and farm

What were used in farms to protect their farms which hurt cowboys jobs?

barbed wire

Which Indians were defeated before the Gilded age? East or West?

East

Where did indians that lived by hunting Buffaloes live?

Great Plains

What was a battle that Indians won to Americans?

Custer's last stand

What was the last fighting between American and Indians?

Wounded knee

What was the Dawes act?

An act to destroy the Indian tribes and culture to make them Americans

How did some Indians become rich?

Gambling in casinos

Why did Americans start to want imperialism?

European nations were creating empires in Africa and Asia

Where were lands gained by US during Gilded age?

Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Cuba

Where did US purchase Alaska from?

Russia

Why is Alaska an Important state?

Gold, Oil, Fishing

What is Hawaii important for?

Spots for ships travelling to settle between US and Asia

What happened when the US tried to take Hawaii?

Hawaii queen and her people tried to resist but the US marine and businessman took over

What colonies were Cuba and Puerto Rico originally?

Spain

When and why did Spanish American war start?

1898, US Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor was thought to be blown up by Spain

Who was leading the army which was fighting with Spanish armies in Cuba?

Theodore Roosevelt

What area were annexed after the Spanish American war from Spain?

Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines

What is the US military base in Cuba?

Guantanamo bay

Why was Philippines not given Independence for a long time?

The people who wanted to keep Philippines took over Philippines

What happened in the Filipinos attack?

Filipinos who thought that US betrayed the Philippines by not freeing them attacked US by brutal guerilla attacks. US won but the war was so violent so US lost interest for creating an Empire

Where has the largest population of all current US territories?

Puerto Rico

What are small island taken during Gilded age for trading stops by the US?

Midway, Wake, Samoa

Why did Americans wanted to build a canal across Isthmus, Panama?

It was expensive and dangerous to sail all around the Americas so they wanted a shortcut

What country owned Panama?

Columbia

What happened when Columbia resisted to sell Isthmus to US?

Theodore Roosevelt sent warships to support a rebellion against the Columbian Gov't

What is the area of Panama that US took controll called?

Panama Canal Zone

What was the trade agreement with China called and what is it?

Open door policy, It made American Christian missionaries able to go anywhere in China

What was the Boxer Rebellion?

A rebellion that tried to kill foreigners and Chinese Christians which the Chinese Gov't supported

What did the Boxers do to defeat foreigners in China?

capture 8 enbassies in Beijing

Who was the reformer that worked for women's suffrage?

Susan B Anthony

Who was the reformer that tried to fix problems in slums?

Jane Addams

What type of people did populist party include?

Workers and farmers who want better working conditions

What did the populist party change?

8 hour workdays, secret ballots, progressive income tax

What was progressive income tax?

Rich people have to pay more tax than poor

What were largest businessmen called?

Robber Barons

Who was Andrew Carnegie?

Had a steel company, born poor but got rich and treated his workers badly, built Carnegie Hall and public libraries

Who was John D Rockefeller?

created Standard oil company, took over US oil and gas industry, built Rockefeller Center

Who was J P Morgan?

Most Important banker, helped finance money to Railroad and major companies, had big power over Gov't, created Metropolitan Museum, created J P Morgan Chase

What were good things about industries during Gilded age?

Business became efficient, new technologies, higher salary

What were bad things about business during Gilded age?

Low wages, long work hours, pollution, trusts

What is a trust?

company or organization that controlls most companies of industry

What happens when a trust has a monopoly?

It can controll all of the industry because it has no more competition

Why is Monopoly and trust not good?

It is again capitalism and prices and services are not fair

What is the Sherman Antitrust act?

An act to stop trusts by the Gov't which was not successful because it didn't have the power to stop it

What is Rugged Individualism?

Americans believing that people were poor because they were lazy which was not true

What is the biggest labor Union and who created it?

The American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers

What did labor unions Improve?

Minimum wages, Paid holidays, health care

What strike created labor day? When is it?

The Pullman Strike, first Monday of September

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問題一覧

When is the Gilded age?

1870 to 1900

What was Gilded age a period of?

A period of growing materialism and political corruption that gave rise to Important novels and political criticism

What were inventions made during the Gilded age?

Telephone, Typewriter, record player, movie, Kodak camera, electric light, skyscraper, automobile

Who invented Telephones?

Alexander Graham Bell

Who invented Light and Movies?

Thomas Edison

What interests grew during the Gilded age?

information, sports

What did cities have at the end of the Gilded age?

Automobiles, lights, electric trolleys

What did poor people live in?

Tenement buildings

Why were laws to improve tenements not working?

The inspectors were often bribed by landlords

What is a political machines?

people in a political party giving money, jobs and food to poor people to make them vote for them

What is the most famous political machines?

Boss Tweed

Where did immigrants first arrive?

Ellis island

What was given by france and what was it?

Statue of liberty, symbol of freedom and opportunity

Where did most immigrants before 1880 come from? What kind of people were they?

Western Europe, Protestant Christians

What were the different immigrants before 1880 like?

Irish, Catholic Christians

Why were immigrants that were different from Americans segregated?

They were afraid that they would take over and change the country

What was decided in the court Plessy vs Ferguson?

Black segregation was legal as long as they were separated but equal

What types of people were coming to America after 1880?

People from Southern and Eastern Europe

Why did Chinese immigrants come to America?

Gold rush

What did the US do to stop Chinese from taking over the Gov't?

Chinese exclusion act

What was the land between Mississippi river and California?

Wild west

Why was wild west called the Wild West?

it was unoccupied and uncivilized

What is the name of the Railroad that allowed people to travel from Atlantic to Pacific ocean?

transcontinental railroad

Where to where was the transcontinental railroad?

Omaha Nebraska to California

Where was the Union Pacific Railroad built between?

Omaha to Great Plains

Who made the Union Pacific Railroad?

Irish and Veterans from civil war

Where was the Central Pacific Railroad?

Sacramento California to Sierra Nevada Mountains

Who built the Central Pacific Railroad?

Chinese workers

Where was transcontinental Railroad finished?

promontory, Utah

What animal did Spanish bring to the US?

Longhorn cattle

What were cattles in Texas called?

Texas Longhorns

What hired cowboys to move the cattles?

Ranches

What is the Homestead Act?

gives 160 acres of land to anyone that settles and farm

What were used in farms to protect their farms which hurt cowboys jobs?

barbed wire

Which Indians were defeated before the Gilded age? East or West?

East

Where did indians that lived by hunting Buffaloes live?

Great Plains

What was a battle that Indians won to Americans?

Custer's last stand

What was the last fighting between American and Indians?

Wounded knee

What was the Dawes act?

An act to destroy the Indian tribes and culture to make them Americans

How did some Indians become rich?

Gambling in casinos

Why did Americans start to want imperialism?

European nations were creating empires in Africa and Asia

Where were lands gained by US during Gilded age?

Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Cuba

Where did US purchase Alaska from?

Russia

Why is Alaska an Important state?

Gold, Oil, Fishing

What is Hawaii important for?

Spots for ships travelling to settle between US and Asia

What happened when the US tried to take Hawaii?

Hawaii queen and her people tried to resist but the US marine and businessman took over

What colonies were Cuba and Puerto Rico originally?

Spain

When and why did Spanish American war start?

1898, US Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor was thought to be blown up by Spain

Who was leading the army which was fighting with Spanish armies in Cuba?

Theodore Roosevelt

What area were annexed after the Spanish American war from Spain?

Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines

What is the US military base in Cuba?

Guantanamo bay

Why was Philippines not given Independence for a long time?

The people who wanted to keep Philippines took over Philippines

What happened in the Filipinos attack?

Filipinos who thought that US betrayed the Philippines by not freeing them attacked US by brutal guerilla attacks. US won but the war was so violent so US lost interest for creating an Empire

Where has the largest population of all current US territories?

Puerto Rico

What are small island taken during Gilded age for trading stops by the US?

Midway, Wake, Samoa

Why did Americans wanted to build a canal across Isthmus, Panama?

It was expensive and dangerous to sail all around the Americas so they wanted a shortcut

What country owned Panama?

Columbia

What happened when Columbia resisted to sell Isthmus to US?

Theodore Roosevelt sent warships to support a rebellion against the Columbian Gov't

What is the area of Panama that US took controll called?

Panama Canal Zone

What was the trade agreement with China called and what is it?

Open door policy, It made American Christian missionaries able to go anywhere in China

What was the Boxer Rebellion?

A rebellion that tried to kill foreigners and Chinese Christians which the Chinese Gov't supported

What did the Boxers do to defeat foreigners in China?

capture 8 enbassies in Beijing

Who was the reformer that worked for women's suffrage?

Susan B Anthony

Who was the reformer that tried to fix problems in slums?

Jane Addams

What type of people did populist party include?

Workers and farmers who want better working conditions

What did the populist party change?

8 hour workdays, secret ballots, progressive income tax

What was progressive income tax?

Rich people have to pay more tax than poor

What were largest businessmen called?

Robber Barons

Who was Andrew Carnegie?

Had a steel company, born poor but got rich and treated his workers badly, built Carnegie Hall and public libraries

Who was John D Rockefeller?

created Standard oil company, took over US oil and gas industry, built Rockefeller Center

Who was J P Morgan?

Most Important banker, helped finance money to Railroad and major companies, had big power over Gov't, created Metropolitan Museum, created J P Morgan Chase

What were good things about industries during Gilded age?

Business became efficient, new technologies, higher salary

What were bad things about business during Gilded age?

Low wages, long work hours, pollution, trusts

What is a trust?

company or organization that controlls most companies of industry

What happens when a trust has a monopoly?

It can controll all of the industry because it has no more competition

Why is Monopoly and trust not good?

It is again capitalism and prices and services are not fair

What is the Sherman Antitrust act?

An act to stop trusts by the Gov't which was not successful because it didn't have the power to stop it

What is Rugged Individualism?

Americans believing that people were poor because they were lazy which was not true

What is the biggest labor Union and who created it?

The American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers

What did labor unions Improve?

Minimum wages, Paid holidays, health care

What strike created labor day? When is it?

The Pullman Strike, first Monday of September