Gilded Age Summative Exam Study Guide
*Industrialization
People/groups
Cornelius
Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
J. P. Morgan
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
William Jennings
Bryan
Theodore
Roosevelt
Skilled workers
Unskilled workers
Mark Twain
Robber barons
Captains of
Industry
*Urbanization
People/groups
Social Gospel
Poor Immigrants
Booker T
Washington
W.E.B. du Bois
George
Washington
Carver
Joseph Pulitzer
William R. Hearst
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Methods
Railroad
steel
Bessemer process
oil
Vertical
integration
Horizontal
integration
electricity
Mechanization
Assembly line
Corporation
Monopoly
Trust
Merger
Hostile takeover
Pool
Holding company
Philanthropy
Child labor
Protective tariffs
Subsidies
Methods
Tenements
houses
Slums
Settlement
houses
Department
stores
Mass transit
Public education
Tuskegee Institute
N.A.A.C.P
“talented tenth”
Yellow journalism
Reactions
The Grange
(Grangers)
Laissez-faire
Interstate
Commerce Act
Sherman AntiTrust Act
Labor movement
American
Federation of
Labor
Knights of Labor
Government
regulations
Uneven
distribution of
wealth
Populism
Populist Party
Bimetallism (free
coinage of silver)
Election of 1896
Gilded Age
*Immigration
People/groups
Old immigrants
New immigrants
Nativists
Machine bosses
*New South
People/groups
Henry Grady
Ku Klux Klan
State legislatures
Supreme Court
Methods
Push factors
Pull factors
Melting pot theory
Salad bowl theory
Ellis Island
Statue of Liberty
America Fever
Reactions
Immigration
restrictions
Chinese Exclusion
Act
National Origins
Act
Nativism
American
Protective
Association
Methods
Crop-lien system
Sharecropping
Disenfranchisement
Literacy tests
Grandfather
clauses
Poll taxes
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Reactions
“Solid South”
These are the four major concepts of the Gilded Age. Make sure you understand what each it is, its causes, and its effects.
Make sure you “KNOW” each term listed, its causes and effects, significance and connection to other terms.
Use your Chapter 23, 24, and 25 reading guides to review and study. Go through the Talking Points and make notes to yourself to
ensure your understanding.
DON’T wait until the last minute to begin studying for this exam.
The exam will assess Standards 1 (vocabulary), 2 (sources), and 5 (cause and effect, change over time). It will be timed just like the
actual AP exam will be. You will have 55 minutes to answer 80 multiple choice questions.
Exam date:
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Thursday, March 6th (even if we miss snow days earlier in the week) - Debate
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Friday, March 7th (even if we miss snow days earlier in the week) – Multiple choice portion