Gilded Age Study Notes

Gospel of Wealth

Chose those who built up wealth to share their riches for the improvement of society.

Andrew Carnegie

A Scottish industrialist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company and by that his company dominated the American steel industry.

Robber Baron

A businessman who became rich through corrupt methods

Railroads

A connection or network of iron rails which helped steam powered locomotives called trains which moved at high speeds.

Gilded Age Society

A period of materialism and political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s

Amalgamated Union

A type of union made up of smaller unions.

Homestead Strike

An 1892 strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania

Alexander Berkman

An anarchist who tried to assassinate Henry Clay Frick

Unions

An organization of workers that fight for better working conditions and higher wages.

Philanthropy

Chairty work

John Rockefeller

Creator of the Standard Oil Company

Pinkertons

Detectives who were hired s as private police force.

Urbanization

Growth of cities

Henry Clay Frick

Manager of the Carnegie Steel who hired armed Pinkerton guards to attack striking workers.

Transcontinental Railroad

Railroad system that connected the west and east coasts of the US

conspicuous consumption

The act of buying and using highly expensive products to flaunt your wealth in front of others.

Social DarwinismT

The belief that only the strongest person survives longer.

industrialists

The highly praised wealthy elite

Angel Island

The immigrant processing station in the San Francisco Bay that opened in 1910

Industrialization

The mass production of industries across america for the production of goods.

Vertical Integration

The practice where a single person controls the entire process of a product.

Ellis Island

The processing center for immigrants which opened in the New York Harbor in 1892

Immigration

Those who move to a new location.

Horizontal Integration

Type of monopoly when a company buys out all of its competitors.

Child Labor

Using children to work in factories

Tenements

Very poor housing apartments

Working conditions in factories

Very unhealthy and resulted in dangerous injuries.