Mugwumps
1890 law that sought to
break up business
conglomerates
Injunction
Strike
1886 Riot in Chicago;
police officers were
killed; labor movement
was discredited
Agreement in which a worker
commits to not join a labor
union
Referendum
Vertical Integration
Monopoly
Laissez Faire
New Immigrants
Salad Bowl
Melting Pot
“Teddy Bear” president
Ways to get around in the
growing cities
Anti-immigrant system of beliefs
Insulting way of
describing a wealthy
businessman
Negotiation between labor
and management; third party
will make the final decision
Amusement Park
Process by which iron is made
into steel
Chinese Exclusion Act
Growth of cities
Secret (Australian) Ballot
Voting reform; votes are
recorded on paper ballot but
the voter remains anonymous
1883 reform requiring
civil service exams for
government employees
Organization of workers
Pendleton Act
Workers refuse to work
in order to win better
wages and working
conditions
Ballot item which allows the
public rather than the legislature
to approve or reject a law
Power of a union to
negotiate a contract for all
its members at a single time
Complementary way of
describing a wealthy
businessman
Party organization which
controls city politics
Collective Bargaining
One business which totally
controls production of a good
Idea that business operates
best when unregulated by
the government; French for
“leave it alone”
1882 law that banned
immigration from China
Worst scandal of the
Grant administration
Reform movement of
western farmers
Labor Union
Election to remove an
official from office
Theory that new cultures stick
together & don’t blend in
completely with “American culture”
Theory that immigrants
become assimilated into
“American Culture”
Place where families could
go for the day to ride roller
coasters & Ferris wheels
(ex: Coney Island)
President of the Knights
of Labor
Nativism
Child Labor
Great Strike of 1877
U.S. Steel
Typewriter
Sherman Antitrust Act
Yellow-Dog Contract
Arbitration
Socialism
Haymarket Affair
Robber Baron
Captain of Industry
Industrialization
Urbanization
Trolleys & Elevators
Ellis Island
Money embezzled from the
government
NYC immigration station;
many immigrants from Europe
entered through here
Growth of factories and
machine production in the
late 1800s
Belief that workers should
control means of production &
wealth should be distributed
more equally
Rutherford B. Hayes
Founder and president of the
American Federation of
Labor (AF of L)
William McKinley
Eugene V. Debs
Former Union general and
reconstruction president whose
administration was rife with
corruption
Financier of corporate mergers
Henry Ford
Scab
Mark Twain
Father of city parks; designer of
NYC’s Central Park
Horatio Alger
Man credited with the
Invention of the telephone in
1876
Leon Czolgosz
Andrew Carnegie
Edwin Drake
Pen name used by the authors
of The Federalist Paper
Author of A Century of
Dishonor
Early “muckraker”, author of
How the Other Half Lives
President assassinated by
angry office-seeker Charles
Guiteau
Boss Tweed
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Pinkerton
Private detectives hired to
infiltrate unions and break
strikes
Most famous political
cartoonist of the Gilded
Age; attacked corruption
Railroad operator who
created a “company town” in
his own name in Pennsylvania
Thomas Nast
The first industrial tycoon,
nicknamed the
“Commodore”; his business
was shipping and RRs
Founder of the American
Railway Union; leader of the
Pullman Strike
Author of dime novels
which advocated honesty
and hard work, such as
Ragged Dick
British economist; coined the
phrase “survival of the fittest”;
“Social Darwinism”
Inventor and advocate of the
alternating current standard
Court order demanding an
immediate stop to a certain
action, such as a strike
Herbert Spencer
Replacement worker
brought in to break a strike
Author of Huck Finn and
Tom Sawyer; called late
1800s the “Gilded Age”
Head of NYC’ss Democratic
machine (Tammany Hall)
Most prolific inventor of the
late 1800s & early 1900s: light
bulb, phonograph, motion
picture camera, direct
current, etc.
When all businesses
involved in the production
process merge together
Anti-corruption Republicans who
voted for Democratic presidential
candidate Grover Cleveland in
1884
George Pullman
Steel tycoon; he lived a
“rags to riches” life,
proclaimed the “Gospel of
Wealth”
Inventor of a new type
of oil drill
Jane Addams
Social reformer who created Hull
House in Chicago to help immigrants
They came from poor regions
of Asia and Europe
William T. Sherman
Charles Guiteau
Chester A. Arthur
Hiram Revels
Samuel Gompers
J.P. Morgan
George Westinghouse
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Ulysses S. Grant
James Garfield
Grover Cleveland
Alexander Graham Bell
Frederick Law Olmstead
Jacob Riis
Thomas Edison
President of the Confederacy
Only president to serve nonconsectuive terms; attacked
by “Ma! Ma! Where’s My Pa?”
Oil tycoon; master of
Standard Oil Trust