Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Populism Test Review

Test on Friday, Nov. 30--AMonday, Dec. 3--B

Indicate: Gilded Age or Progressive Era

• Rise of monopolies• Superficial glitter• Beginning of conservation• Civil service reform• Child labor exploited• Child labor stopped• Political machines gain control• State referendums passed• Muckrakers expose corruption• Captains of Industries make their fortunes• Civil Rights promoted education

Matching

• Plessy v. Ferguson• Social Darwinism• Gospel of Wealth

• “separate but equal”• Philanthropy• “survival of the fittest”

• Vanderbilt• Duke• Rockefeller• Carnegie

• Oil• Tobacco• Steel• Railroads

• W.E.B. DuBois• Booker T. Washington• Eugene Debs• Scott Joplin

• Ragtime music• NAACP• Unions and socialists• Tuskegee Institute

• Upton Sinclair• Jane Addams• William Jennings Bryan• Theodore Roosevelt

• Hull House• Trustbuster• The Jungle• “Cross of Gold”

• Tenement• Ellis Island• Statue of Liberty• Tammany Hall

• Greeted immigrants• Checked immigrants• Protected immigrants• Home for immigrants

• Temperance• Laissez-faire• Muckrakers• Yellow journalism

• Leave the economy alone

• Exaggerated news for entertainment

• No alcohol• Writers wrote “dirt”

• Age of Steel• Captains of Industry• City Commission• Coney Island

• Amusement park• Bessemer Process led to

this• Reformed government• Millionaires or “robber

barons”

• Minimum wage• Mass production• Knights of Labor• AFL/CIO

• Early labor union• Reform for workers• Efficient factory system• Merging of two major

unions

• Coal Strike• Interstate Commerce

Commission• Sherman Anti-Trust Act• Food and Drug

Administration

• TR settled this• Regulated railroads• Response to The Jungle• Effort to break

monopolies

• Robber Barons• Captains of Industry• Gilded Age• Progressive Era• Teddy Roosevelt

• “Teddy Bear” Conservationist

• Good term for millionaires

• Bad term for millionaires

• Time of beauty and wealth/ugliness and poverty

• Time of change and reform

Essays:

• Write a paragraph explaining how three specific problems of the Gilded Age were subject to reform during the Progressive Era.

• Example: segregation and Jim Crow Laws of the Gilded Age were addressed by Progressive efforts like Black colleges, NAACP, The Red Book on lynching, Plessy v. Ferguson (which was a setback)

• Name a Progressive President and three ways he was progressive.

• Example: Wilson—Workmen’s Compensation, did not support big business, established the Federal Reserve, supported populist ideas,

and Amendments 16, 17, 18, 19

• What was the Populist Movement? Name three things it is known for.

Bonus (TAKS People)

• Robert La Follette• Hearst and Pulitzer• Susan B. Anthony• Henry Ford• Wright and Sullivan• Eugene Debs• T. Roosevelt• Washington and DuBois• Jane Addams• William Jennings Bryan